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Originally Posted by Smith-Corona
... I am having trouble understanding how margin settings work.
First of all, I am not sure what "Crop margins" means. To me that suggests, how much would you like to crop the margins by, ie how much would you like to chop off. But the default setting of 0.00 removes the margin altogether, so I guess "Crop margins" refers to the actual margin width? ...
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Imagine all pixels in the crop margins being painted white, and you essentially have exactly the effect--that's all k2pdfopt does internally with the crop margin information--it internally paints that area of the source page white. The value used by crop margins thus tells k2pdfopt to ignore that margin area (treat it as white/blank). This doesn't mean that k2pdfopt will automatically remove it from the output--it just means any text or black ink in those margins will be ignored when determining source page regions to put on the output page. Other settings combine with this setting to determine what part of each region actually gets turned into each output page, e.g. what mode is being used. With "-mode fitpage", for example, k2pdfopt automatically trims any blank margins away from the output regions, but with "-mode copy", k2pdfopt preserves the source page size exactly (no trimming).