PDF cropping software: BRISS

[harikamboji]

I'm also trying to get Briss to work on a mac. Same issue as previous posters. Double clicking the file briss-0.0.11.jar results in nothing happening. Opening from within the terminal gives the above listed errors.

Note that you can use the Preview application to crop pdfs, but it increases the file size. This is mainly the reason I'm interested in Briss.

Thanks!

[kidblue]

Upgrading to Snow Leopard (10.4) made it rock and roll. I guess it just needs that current version of Java.

[laborg]

Hi harikamboji!

BRISS doesn't work with java 1.5. If it is somehow possible for you to upgrade to java 6 I would suggest you to do so, otherwise I can't guarantee that you are going to be able to use BRISS in the near future...

greetings,

[harikamboji]

Thanks laborg. Turns out my mac running leopard had Java 1.6 installed but it was set to run Java 1.5 by default. I had to change the order of the versions using "Java preferences" from the Utilities folder. Now it works! This page was very helpful:
http://www.javatester.org/version.html

Anyhow, as many people have undoubtedly told you, Briss is fantastic. Great idea superimposing all the even pages and odd pages against each other. Awesome!!

[kidblue]

Is there a way to NOT superimpose all the pages and/or examine each page of a multi-page document?

[Nexutix]

Originally Posted by kidblue

Is there a way to NOT superimpose all the pages and/or examine each page of a multi-page document?

Easy one! From briss 0.0.11 version, you can exclude pages from being superimposed. If you want pages not to be superimposed, add all pages when it asks the dialog after loading PDF.

Well, you can copy paste the numbers upto required from attachment.(to save you from typing)
List_Of_Numbers_Upto_500.txt

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by patilsaurabhr

Easy one! From briss 0.0.11 version, you can exclude pages from being superimposed. If you want pages not to be superimposed, add all pages when it asks the dialog after loading PDF.

Well, you can copy paste the numbers upto required from attachment.(to save you from typing)
Attachment 59950

I thought you could type "1-500".

Andrew

[Nexutix]

Originally Posted by andyh2000

I thought you could type "1-500".

Andrew

You can, but think if you want to drop more than 10 pages which are not in a sequence, then you could do it fast:

1. Know which are to be dropped.
2. Paste this strip.
3. Delete unwanted pages.

Now if I do like waht you say, you will have to form the "X-Y" phrases and type them all in. It will take more time; won't it? Pressing delete 10 times is lot easier.

[baccilus]

I just tried Briss and I must say it is a wonderful piece of software. It really helps in reading PDF's on my 6" Kindle 3. Thank you so much for this.

[theduder]

I'm trying to crop the even and odd pages of my book to be the same size. I drew two rectangles in BRISS, selected both of them and then clicked the maximize height, then maximize width buttons.

The resulting crop regions look the same (see http://i.imgur.com/K6Cm6.png), but the even and odd pages in the output PDF have slightly different widths (maybe also heights, see http://i.imgur.com/WZFnu.png).

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

[seol1500]

Thanks for a great great programme!

I would like to make few suggestions to make this beautiful program even better ;
some E-books I own, have different format on some of the pages i.e. when it has diagrams, pictures, or in a new chapter.

They tend to occupy much more margin than any other pages therefore, when I make all the selected rectangles same width/height, normal pages looks too small in Kindle 3. While inputting exclusion pages numbers could solve this problem, it arises another problem by having me to know all the page numbers. This is especially difficult to solve when book is >=500 pages long.

So I believe by implementing some AI would solve this problem nicely, these are the two methods you could consider :

First method:
When input file is given, BRISS automatically analyses all the pages, and separates them.
con
1. Loading problem, could be avoided if BRISS asks the user about this option beforehand.
2. Cannot exclude some regions such as page number - this tends to be near the far front/end of the page. Resulting some anomalies.

Second method:
User loads up input file and draw two boxes (A) region you want to crop, (B) region you want to exclude BRISS to analyse. Then BRISS find any texts/colours outside the region (A) excluding the ones in (B) and separate those pages into new ones. User repeats until no pages left.
con.
This feature might also requires 'undo' function.

Finally include batch processing option so that user could open multiple PDF files to crop and save them separately.

Thanks again for a great program, I owe you a lot (saves time & money)
Would you ever consider putting a donation page, I would definitely support you.
Chris.

[flyash]

laborg, I love the 'exclude from merging' feature in 0.11.

One feature suggestion related to the excluded pages: It would be nice to be able to tell BRISS to merge certain excluded pages as its own cluster. For example, let's say I exclude the following pages: cover, copyright page, table of contents (can be multiple pages for large books), chapter title pages, glossary pages.

Currently BRISS will show each of the excluded pages separately, and that requires a lot of cropping. It would be great if we could tell BRISS to merge certain pages as its own cluster. So we could have a table of contents cluster, a chapter title cluster, a glossary cluster, etc. This would dramatically reduce the cropping (i.e., box drawing) required. And of course BRISS is already set up to auto merge all non-excluded pages, so that part would remain unaffected.

[Nexutix]

Where are attached builds? I can't get briss running from the zip downloaded from sourceforge. How do I run briss from that zip in windows? Thanks in advance.

[Nexutix]

[jackie_w]

There may be other ways, but I've unzipped the .zip, placed the directory in "C:\Program Fiiles" and added a bat file RunBriss.bat, containing just one line.

java -jar briss-0.0.11.jar