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ali · 08-14-2006, 07:44 AM

I found that all PDF's I tried so far could be cropped manually by editing the MediaBox.

For example, an A4 PDF will contain something like

Code:

/MediaBox [ 0 0 595 842 ]

in one or several places. I just adjusted the four values - to crop 50 points from each border, I'd change that to

Code:

/MediaBox [ 50 50 545 792 ]

Both acroread and xpdf will honor that. That way, you can even crop page numbers / chapter headings and such away.

Under Linux, I'd do it using sed:

Code:

sed 's/0 0 595 842/50 50 545 792/g' <book.pdf >cropped.pdf

Under Windows, you'd have to open the pdf in notepad or something (don't know if that harms binary streams in the pdf)

08-14-2006, 07:44 AM	#2
ali Addict Posts: 302 Karma: 116 Join Date: May 2006 Device: Iliad, dude!	I found that all PDF's I tried so far could be cropped manually by editing the MediaBox. For example, an A4 PDF will contain something like Code: /MediaBox [ 0 0 595 842 ] in one or several places. I just adjusted the four values - to crop 50 points from each border, I'd change that to Code: /MediaBox [ 50 50 545 792 ] Both acroread and xpdf will honor that. That way, you can even crop page numbers / chapter headings and such away. Under Linux, I'd do it using sed: Code: sed 's/0 0 595 842/50 50 545 792/g' <book.pdf >cropped.pdf Under Windows, you'd have to open the pdf in notepad or something (don't know if that harms binary streams in the pdf)