Thread: Any FREE software to crop PDF pages
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Old 04-27-2010, 04:42 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by frabjous View Post
Yeah, that won't result in a "real" crop, but it'll be fine for the Sony Reader probably. Not a free solution, though.
Your information above (which is correct) surprised me and at the same time explained why loading a so-called "cropped" page took so long on my Sony, much longer than for an average PDF whose format fits the screen.

Googling around, I read that it is nevertheless possible to "refry" this so-called "cropped" PDF, that is to save it again as a new PDF using Distiller. This time, at least, it will be really and permanently cropped, and so should load much more quickly.
http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/refrying

As I have no experience about it, I will make some trials. It may be that "refry" means only saving to a PS file and back to PDF. It also remains to see if this operation does not damage some characters of the original file.

I wonder if it would not be possible to obtain this "refrying" feature using a free PDF printer.
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