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arivero · 07-04-2006, 05:48 AM

also, unixers could enjoy the netpbm package, particularly pnmcrop, to erase margins, and pnmflip or pnmrotate. This works on bitmaps; I supposse a utility similar to pnmcrop but for pdf files should be welcome.

Actually my Debian has installed a thing called "pdfcrop" but no man page about it. It produces a file about 6 times bigger, which is strange, I can not decide if it is bitmap or just decompressed pdf. In any case, "pdfcrop --verbose" is a good utility to know the margins of each page, then resize as you wish.

07-04-2006, 05:48 AM	#6
arivero Guru Posts: 607 Karma: 2157 Join Date: Oct 2005 Device: NCR3125, Nokia 770,...	also, unixers could enjoy the netpbm package, particularly pnmcrop, to erase margins, and pnmflip or pnmrotate. This works on bitmaps; I supposse a utility similar to pnmcrop but for pdf files should be welcome. Actually my Debian has installed a thing called "pdfcrop" but no man page about it. It produces a file about 6 times bigger, which is strange, I can not decide if it is bitmap or just decompressed pdf. In any case, "pdfcrop --verbose" is a good utility to know the margins of each page, then resize as you wish. Last edited by arivero; 07-04-2006 at 06:15 AM.