From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Trim blank space of a PDF page
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 12:09:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a051a19f-3b75-bd67-4d63-9b2e4b4c4e7c@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E3DB858-E726-4714-BD12-F0D2297464EA@elvenkind.com>
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 10:09 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 [this message]
2018-05-23 14:44 ` Alan Braslau
2018-05-23 15:10 ` Taco Hoekwater
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