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Originally Posted by laborg
mhm... just registered to tell how great a-pdf (43$) is? I guess you are just interested in selling a-pdf and didn't have a look at all the open-source solutions...
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You're wrong... I actually installed 4 different free programs, and 3 shareware trials. None of them did what I wanted.
They all gave me the open to crop the margins by measuring from the outer edge of the document. The major problem with what I was looking for though, is that with the multi-page documents I'm scanning in with my portable scanner, the pages are very often all different sizes, and the area I'm trying to center isn't always in the exact same place from page to page. (I'm scanning sheet music, and my program auto-rotates to make the lines parallel with the top of the page.)
I'm sure you're smart enough to realize that this means I can't set a single set of margins for a program to crop, and then apply it to all the pages. And I sure as hell don't want to go through 13 pages and adjust the margins to crop, and have to do the math on every single page to get the final output PDFs to all be exactly the same size.
This is the beauty of A-PDF (which only costs $27, not $43)... It gives me the option of setting a crop box size for the output section (not just adjusting each margin), and I can use the graphic interface to move that box on each page to center the portion I want to save.
I assume that you only saw it was shareware, and refused to try it and stuck with the open source programs?