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arivero · 07-04-2006, 06:30 AM

Hmm pdfcrop is really a perl script,
/usr/share/texmf-tetex/scripts/pdfcrop/pdfcrop.pl
and it comes in the TeX packages.

It uses ghostscript to extract BoundingBox information, thus it is not a real crop as in pnmcrop but an alternate use of the information already provided by postscript. Then it reencapsulates the pdf as part of a file to be processed by the pdftex utility. Thus it requires all the whole TeX thing installed, but it should work in Windows TeX distributions too.

It does not seem to bitmap the source, so I can not see why the generated pdf is bigger than the original.

07-04-2006, 06:30 AM	#7
arivero Guru Posts: 607 Karma: 2157 Join Date: Oct 2005 Device: NCR3125, Nokia 770,...	pdfcrop Hmm pdfcrop is really a perl script, /usr/share/texmf-tetex/scripts/pdfcrop/pdfcrop.pl and it comes in the TeX packages. It uses ghostscript to extract BoundingBox information, thus it is not a real crop as in pnmcrop but an alternate use of the information already provided by postscript. Then it reencapsulates the pdf as part of a file to be processed by the pdftex utility. Thus it requires all the whole TeX thing installed, but it should work in Windows TeX distributions too. It does not seem to bitmap the source, so I can not see why the generated pdf is bigger than the original. Last edited by arivero; 07-04-2006 at 06:32 AM.