66.6 PDF Cropping
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To crop a pdf document (multiple pages included) use
pdfcrop
with --margins. For example to remove crop marks from a book
proof in each of the four corners of the document, experimentation
might suggest a crop margin of -50 works:
View the resulting document:
Below we see the original at the top and the cropped version at the bottom. When printing, the image will generally be expanded to fit the page, though that is often a setting within the application controlling the printing.
To crop most of the lower portion of a page, noting that you may want to experiment with the 675 here:
The arguments to --margins are
<left> <top> <right> <bottom>.
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