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Originally Posted by roger64
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.
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Do some tests and let us know. I gather from what I read on the link you posted that printing to the distiller is in effect the same as converting to PS and then back to PDF, so it doesn't matter which you do. Printing to Distiller sounds easier, assuming it works.
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I wonder if it would not be possible to obtain this "refrying" feature using a free PDF printer.
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But unless you were using Acrobat itself to do the cropping, why would you need to "refry" it to begin with? And if you have Acrobat installed, then you don't need a free PDF printer, since you have distiller.
Nevertheless,
Ghostscript is certainly capable of converting from PDF to PS and then back again, and it's free software. I've used that as a method of stripping the JavaScript out of a PDF to increase security.
There are also free PDF printers like
PDFCreator. But I think the effects of printing to PDFCreator would depend on what program was doing the printing, and the page settings you picked. Probably printing from Adobe Reader would do the trick—but again, unless you were using the Full Acrobat to do the cropping, why would the PDF need to be refried to begin with?