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Old 03-22-2010, 08:46 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by baker2gs View Post
Yeah I think that's the ideal thing to do with a pdf, crop the white edges although I was trying to find a batch way of doing it.

I can't get ImageMagick to work, it wont open the PDF. Are there any good step by step instructions to get it installed and set up correctly? Running on Windows 7.
I don't have Windows 7 so I can't help you with the install, but I do know of an easy way to pseudo-batch trim your pdfs. Copy all the pdfs you want to trim to a new folder, then open a command prompt in that new folder and run:

mogrify -fuzz 15% -bordercolor white -trim *.pdf

The mogrify command is similar to convert except that it overwrites the input file (which is why I said copy the pdfs to a new folder, otherwise you will lose the originals). The above command should trim the white space of all the pdfs in the folder.
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