I'm trying to find a tool (preferably free), to crop PDF's, and get rid of margins... even on a 24" monitor, I hate wasting space, but it'll be doubly important if/when the ebook readers come out.

Does anyone know of one? I know full Acrobat can do it, but haven't been able to find anything in my googling.

Thanks

If you are on a mac you can just use preview to crop either one or all pages. Assuming of course you are on a mac. If you are not, sorry I can't help you.

micro

I haven't tried it, but there is a perl script called pdfcrop:
PDFCROP takes a PDF file as input, calculates the BoundingBox
for each page by the help of ghostscript and generates a output
PDF file with removed margins.

http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/support/pdfcrop/README

Well, you can use Document - crop pages - to adjust the margins (makes it invisible) without actually removing the margins. If you want to remove the margins, try Document - crop pages - select custom in Change page size.

Nag

Or you could use this:
http://www.pdfill.com/
the "tools" is freeware...

just a heads up

I looked into this for the DX as it's very important (necessity). I have a Mac.
I tried a few things with varying success.


But it appears that good old Preview does it best

http://www.macworld.com/article/139223/2009/03/previewcrop.html

very fast and effective.

SoPDF (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32066) will crop the margins, along with allowing other optimization choices for viewing on E-Readers. Free and open source (and hosted right here at MR.)

I think there are only linux and windows versions right now, though the source code is there and should be portable to a mac without too much trouble.