Have you tried using Okular? It's a pretty serviceable PDF reader on Linux, and now has a Windows port as well. Okular also comes with a per-page cropping mode

Have you tried using Okular? It's a pretty serviceable PDF reader on Linux, and now has a Windows port as well. Okular also comes with a per-page cropping mode, though it tends to cause issues when scrolling between pages. I prefer to use pdf-crop-margins (and on encrypted PDFs, qpdf --decrypt so pdf-crop-margins can read them) to generate a pre-cropped PDF that works on any reader, but keep the original PDF around for when I like it better. Another trick is that on large 32+ inch screens, you can use Firefox's pdf.js in horizontal scrolling view to hold 2-3 pages on-screen simultaneously and cross-reference them easily, then switch to the hand tool for easy continuous scrolling.