How can I easily crop a PDF page?

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Sparkler picture Sparkler · Oct 24, 2014 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

How can I easily crop a PDF page in a given PDF file? I prefer using as little coding as possible, and guess border geometries as little as possible...

Answer

Sparkler picture Sparkler · Oct 24, 2014

There are several options:

  1. Crop by point-and-click using a GUI front-end:
  2. Crop by using the command line:
    • pdfcrop command (provided by texlive-extra-utils), using the following arguments: pdfcrop --margins '-30 -30 -250 -150' --clip input.pdf output.pdf (-left -top -right -bottom format).
    • PDFCrop
    • convert -crop command (provided by imagemagick)
    • Ghostscript
  3. Crop by writing your own script:

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