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NightWhistler · 11-20-2009, 05:46 AM

Thanks for the tip!

After reading your post, I did a quick search and found that Ubuntu comes with a small command-line tool called pdfcrop, also available at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfcrop/

It does a per-page crop of all the white-space, in the margins. I tried it on one of my PDF books (Open Source ESBs in Action), and though it did take a long time (15 minutes or so), the result was really good. It looks a bit weird in a normal PDF viewer (the title page was stripped to just the title text), but on the PRS-600 it looks great.

So, thanks for the inspiration... this will make reading papers and books so much more convenient.

By the way, I also found this tool: http://pdfcrop.sourceforge.net/

Haven't tested that one yet though.

11-20-2009, 05:46 AM	#33
NightWhistler Developer of PageTurner Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Voorburg, Netherlands Device: Samsung Galaxy S3, Asus Transformer Prime	Thanks for the tip! After reading your post, I did a quick search and found that Ubuntu comes with a small command-line tool called pdfcrop, also available at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfcrop/ It does a per-page crop of all the white-space, in the margins. I tried it on one of my PDF books (Open Source ESBs in Action), and though it did take a long time (15 minutes or so), the result was really good. It looks a bit weird in a normal PDF viewer (the title page was stripped to just the title text), but on the PRS-600 it looks great. So, thanks for the inspiration... this will make reading papers and books so much more convenient. By the way, I also found this tool: http://pdfcrop.sourceforge.net/ Haven't tested that one yet though.