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jackie_w · 05-12-2023, 03:48 PM

With the caveat that I haven't attempted to crop PDFs for more than 5 years ...

At that time I seem to remember that GhostScript had the ability (commandline only) to, using your terms, "hard trim" a PDF which had previously been "visually trimmed" with some other utility (I used to use briss for the visual trimming).

Here's an old example I noted at the time:

Code:

gswin64c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=hard_trim.pdf visual_trim.pdf

It may be too old to be useful, but I offer it as an option to look into if you wish.

05-12-2023, 03:48 PM	#2
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,252 Karma: 16544692 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	With the caveat that I haven't attempted to crop PDFs for more than 5 years ... At that time I seem to remember that GhostScript had the ability (commandline only) to, using your terms, "hard trim" a PDF which had previously been "visually trimmed" with some other utility (I used to use briss for the visual trimming). Here's an old example I noted at the time: Code: gswin64c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=hard_trim.pdf visual_trim.pdf It may be too old to be useful, but I offer it as an option to look into if you wish.