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willus · 06-15-2022, 09:49 PM

For this specific case with so many graphics in the margins, particularly if the columns are very consistent throught the document, I recommend using a couple of fixed crop boxes around the columns. See the screen shot from the GUI (the GUI has a nice selection tool to quickly create the crop boxes--I added a screenshot of that where it overlays the pages together so you can see how your cropping selection fits over multiple pages).

The command line is:
k2pdfopt -mode 2col -c -cbox- -ibox- -cbox 0.9242in,0.9942in,3.291in,8.892in -cbox 4.229in,1.05in,3.333in,8.71in 2pagesample.pdf

06-15-2022, 09:49 PM	#1952
willus Fuzzball, the purple cat Posts: 1,303 Karma: 11087488 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: California Device: iPad	For this specific case with so many graphics in the margins, particularly if the columns are very consistent throught the document, I recommend using a couple of fixed crop boxes around the columns. See the screen shot from the GUI (the GUI has a nice selection tool to quickly create the crop boxes--I added a screenshot of that where it overlays the pages together so you can see how your cropping selection fits over multiple pages). The command line is: k2pdfopt -mode 2col -c -cbox- -ibox- -cbox 0.9242in,0.9942in,3.291in,8.892in -cbox 4.229in,1.05in,3.333in,8.71in 2pagesample.pdf Attached Thumbnails Last edited by willus; 06-15-2022 at 09:53 PM.