Crop PDF (A4->A5) automatically before printing
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I'm repeatedly printing documents with the same layout. The documents are generated as 1 A4 page, but the real content when cropped fits easily on an A5 and can (and should) be even enlarged.
Right now I'm:
- printing the document as PDF
- cropping the documents manually in Acrobat
- printing the cropped document with the "Fit to printable area" scaling setting (= upscaling the content).
The margins to be cropped are always the same.
Is there a tool (a virtual printer?) enabling automation of the process?
pdf printing automation
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I'm repeatedly printing documents with the same layout. The documents are generated as 1 A4 page, but the real content when cropped fits easily on an A5 and can (and should) be even enlarged.
Right now I'm:
- printing the document as PDF
- cropping the documents manually in Acrobat
- printing the cropped document with the "Fit to printable area" scaling setting (= upscaling the content).
The margins to be cropped are always the same.
Is there a tool (a virtual printer?) enabling automation of the process?
pdf printing automation
asked Nov 20 at 8:50
Lukas Kavicky
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I'm repeatedly printing documents with the same layout. The documents are generated as 1 A4 page, but the real content when cropped fits easily on an A5 and can (and should) be even enlarged.
Right now I'm:
- printing the document as PDF
- cropping the documents manually in Acrobat
- printing the cropped document with the "Fit to printable area" scaling setting (= upscaling the content).
The margins to be cropped are always the same.
Is there a tool (a virtual printer?) enabling automation of the process?
pdf printing automation
asked Nov 20 at 8:50
Lukas Kavicky
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I'm repeatedly printing documents with the same layout. The documents are generated as 1 A4 page, but the real content when cropped fits easily on an A5 and can (and should) be even enlarged.
Right now I'm:
- printing the document as PDF
- cropping the documents manually in Acrobat
- printing the cropped document with the "Fit to printable area" scaling setting (= upscaling the content).
The margins to be cropped are always the same.
Is there a tool (a virtual printer?) enabling automation of the process?
pdf printing automation
pdf printing automation
asked Nov 20 at 8:50
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There is a command line tool called pdfcrop, it will be installed in /Library/TeX/texbin when installing MacTeX (link). I'm convinced there is better way of getting that tool instead of downloading/installing a 3.2 GByte software package (but because I'm using LaTeX, I've never cared to find out).
Excerpt from man page:
Syntax: pdfcrop [options] <input[.pdf]> [output file]
Function: Margins are calculated and removed for each page in the file.
Examples:
pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf
pdfcrop --margins '5 10 5 20' --clip input.pdf output.pdf
It might be suitable for your automation needs.
answered Nov 20 at 11:55
jvb
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Thanks, @jvb. I was thinking more in the direction of virtual printers, so that the automation could be triggered already from the web browser without additional steps required. But maybe pdfcrop could be a part of the solution.
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There is a command line tool called pdfcrop, it will be installed in /Library/TeX/texbin when installing MacTeX (link). I'm convinced there is better way of getting that tool instead of downloading/installing a 3.2 GByte software package (but because I'm using LaTeX, I've never cared to find out).
Excerpt from man page:
Syntax: pdfcrop [options] <input[.pdf]> [output file]
Function: Margins are calculated and removed for each page in the file.
Examples:
pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf
pdfcrop --margins '5 10 5 20' --clip input.pdf output.pdf
It might be suitable for your automation needs.
answered Nov 20 at 11:55
jvb
665211
Thanks, @jvb. I was thinking more in the direction of virtual printers, so that the automation could be triggered already from the web browser without additional steps required. But maybe pdfcrop could be a part of the solution.
– Lukas Kavicky
2 days ago
add a comment |
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There is a command line tool called pdfcrop, it will be installed in /Library/TeX/texbin when installing MacTeX (link). I'm convinced there is better way of getting that tool instead of downloading/installing a 3.2 GByte software package (but because I'm using LaTeX, I've never cared to find out).
Excerpt from man page:
Syntax: pdfcrop [options] <input[.pdf]> [output file]
Function: Margins are calculated and removed for each page in the file.
Examples:
pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf
pdfcrop --margins '5 10 5 20' --clip input.pdf output.pdf
It might be suitable for your automation needs.
answered Nov 20 at 11:55
jvb
665211
Thanks, @jvb. I was thinking more in the direction of virtual printers, so that the automation could be triggered already from the web browser without additional steps required. But maybe pdfcrop could be a part of the solution.
– Lukas Kavicky
2 days ago
add a comment |
up vote
0
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up vote
0
down vote
There is a command line tool called pdfcrop, it will be installed in /Library/TeX/texbin when installing MacTeX (link). I'm convinced there is better way of getting that tool instead of downloading/installing a 3.2 GByte software package (but because I'm using LaTeX, I've never cared to find out).
Excerpt from man page:
Syntax: pdfcrop [options] <input[.pdf]> [output file]
Function: Margins are calculated and removed for each page in the file.
Examples:
pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf
pdfcrop --margins '5 10 5 20' --clip input.pdf output.pdf
It might be suitable for your automation needs.
answered Nov 20 at 11:55
jvb
665211
There is a command line tool called pdfcrop, it will be installed in /Library/TeX/texbin when installing MacTeX (link). I'm convinced there is better way of getting that tool instead of downloading/installing a 3.2 GByte software package (but because I'm using LaTeX, I've never cared to find out).
Excerpt from man page:
Syntax: pdfcrop [options] <input[.pdf]> [output file]
Function: Margins are calculated and removed for each page in the file.
Examples:
pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf
pdfcrop --margins '5 10 5 20' --clip input.pdf output.pdf
It might be suitable for your automation needs.
answered Nov 20 at 11:55
jvb
665211
answered Nov 20 at 11:55
jvb
665211
answered Nov 20 at 11:55
jvb
665211
answered Nov 20 at 11:55
jvb
665211
665211
Thanks, @jvb. I was thinking more in the direction of virtual printers, so that the automation could be triggered already from the web browser without additional steps required. But maybe pdfcrop could be a part of the solution.
– Lukas Kavicky
2 days ago
add a comment |
Thanks, @jvb. I was thinking more in the direction of virtual printers, so that the automation could be triggered already from the web browser without additional steps required. But maybe pdfcrop could be a part of the solution.
– Lukas Kavicky
2 days ago
Thanks, @jvb. I was thinking more in the direction of virtual printers, so that the automation could be triggered already from the web browser without additional steps required. But maybe pdfcrop could be a part of the solution.
– Lukas Kavicky
2 days ago
Thanks, @jvb. I was thinking more in the direction of virtual printers, so that the automation could be triggered already from the web browser without additional steps required. But maybe pdfcrop could be a part of the solution.
– Lukas Kavicky
2 days ago
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