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On 2020-05-21, Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> There is also [1], which is a slightly improved version of Oberdiek's pdfcrop. |
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> It uses pure GhostScript and Perl to work around some of the caveats of pdfcrop, |
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> including preserving interactive content (such as hyperref links in TeX |
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> documents) and allowing you to avoid emerging the huge texlive-core package for |
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> one small utility. |
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> [1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/42259/ |
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I don't see any pure Perl/Ghostscript utility in that thread. There's |
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a bash program, but it doesn't support compression in input files. |
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The pdfcrop.pl included in texlive seems to work OK with compressed |
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input files, but the output filesize balloons up by about 6X. |
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This app did work beautifully with no fuss: |
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https://pypi.org/project/pdfCropMargins/ |
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https://github.com/abarker/pdfCropMargins |
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I can remove the crop marks from a PDF book, and then keep as much or |
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little of the remaining whitespace margins as I want. The output file |
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is smaller than the input file (which is sort of what you'd expect |
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when you're removing stuff). |
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Now I can uninstall TexLive until the next time I need to tweak my |
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résumé. :) I usually do have TexLive installed, but a while back it |
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was causing a blockage when trying to do an update. So I uninstalled |
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it in order to get on the the 'emerge -auvND world' and never got |
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around to re-installing it until today. |
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Grant |
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