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Originally Posted by chefguru
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.)
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laborg's own BRISS typically lets you set different crop areas on pages with different geometries. It isn't the same for every page. It might not have worked with your document, but you could have filed a bug report and help improve the software. Open souce software needs the community to help it improve.
Some of the other open source cropping software out there (e.g., the pdfcrop perl script, ghostscript and calibre, etc.) will automatically calculate the bounding box and crop exactly to that. It does the math for you. Why should you highlight it with a GUI on each page when the software can detect it for you? I'll give you the details if you're interested.
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I assume that you only saw it was shareware, and refused to try it and stuck with the open source programs?
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No one is doubting it does what you say. The price, even the lower price, however, is exorbitant for what this does, and open source software open source always benefits everyone, so it's always preferable just on moral grounds.