cropping PDF (was: Re: [vox-tech] adobe acrobat)

[Jonathan Stickel]

With some more google searching, I found pdfcrop:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfcrop/

It does exactly what I want, without converting to postcript.

Jonathan


Shawn wrote (pasting in from archive):
 >You might be able to use pdf2ps (part of ghostscript) followed by
 >psresize (part of psutils).  All the tools in psutils are versatile,
 >but I usually have to experiment a bit to get what I want.
 >
 >shawn.
 >
 >On Thursday 21 August 2003 01:06 pm, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
 >> R. Douglas Barbieri wrote (on vox):
 >>  > I'd love to get rid of Windows entirely from my home, and will, 
the day
 >>  > Adobe Premiere finally works correctly under Linux/Wine.
 >>
 >> Actually, one of the few apps I still must use windows for is Adobe
 >> Acrobat.  Does anyone know if this works with Linux/Wine?
 >>
 >> My specific need is cropping an entire PDF (i.e. removing excess
 >> margins).  Does anyone know if there is a ghostscript (command line or
 >> app) to do this as an alternative to Acrobat?
 >>
 >> Jonathan