From: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
To: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Trim blank space of a PDF page
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 08:44:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180523084449.49857f36@poo.hsd1.co.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a051a19f-3b75-bd67-4d63-9b2e4b4c4e7c@xs4all.nl>
Do these tools work vectorally, that is identify the drawing extent
and adjust the boundingbox appropriately, or do they (especially gs)
convert to an image and then crop?
I use MP to read the pdf and then crop, but to a fixed closed path.
The problem here appears to seek an autocrop.
Alan
On Wed, 23 May 2018 12:09:29 +0200
Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 5/23/2018 11:25 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 05/23/2018 01:25 AM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> just curious - is threre a way how to crop a page of a PDF via
> >>> ConTeXt?
> >>>
> >>> Ideally - to process a single page PDF into another file, with
> >>> the one page cropped...
> >>
> >
> > The ‘pdfcrop’ command from TeXLive can do that for you on the
> > command line. It is based around ghostscript which can
> > automatically find the crop area, then uses pdftex,luatex,or xetex
> > to create a new pdf.
> >
> > It is doable to come up with a solution in ConTeXt if you do not
> > mind specifying the cropbox manually, but automatic cropping is
> > probably too hard for ConTeXt itself (and likely would end up
> > duplicating pdfcrop to some extent).
> there is a script
>
> pdftrimwhite.pl
>
> in the distribution
>
> Hans
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-23 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-22 13:25 Procházka Lukáš Ing.
2018-05-23 9:11 ` Henri Menke
2018-05-23 9:25 ` Taco Hoekwater
2018-05-23 10:09 ` Hans Hagen
2018-05-23 14:44 ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2018-05-23 15:10 ` Taco Hoekwater
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