On 2020-05-21, Ashley Dixon <a...@suugaku.co.uk> wrote: > There is also [1], which is a slightly improved version of Oberdiek's > pdfcrop. > It uses pure GhostScript and Perl to work around some of the caveats of > pdfcrop, > including preserving interactive content (such as hyperref links in > TeX > documents) and allowing you to avoid emerging the huge texlive-core package > for > one small utility. > > [1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/42259/
I don't see any pure Perl/Ghostscript utility in that thread. There's a bash program, but it doesn't support compression in input files. The pdfcrop.pl included in texlive seems to work OK with compressed input files, but the output filesize balloons up by about 6X. This app did work beautifully with no fuss: https://pypi.org/project/pdfCropMargins/ https://github.com/abarker/pdfCropMargins I can remove the crop marks from a PDF book, and then keep as much or little of the remaining whitespace margins as I want. The output file is smaller than the input file (which is sort of what you'd expect when you're removing stuff). Now I can uninstall TexLive until the next time I need to tweak my résumé. :) I usually do have TexLive installed, but a while back it was causing a blockage when trying to do an update. So I uninstalled it in order to get on the the 'emerge -auvND world' and never got around to re-installing it until today. -- Grant
