It appears that pdfcrop comes with MikTeX: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdfcrop.exe (I am not entirely clear on whether there are any differences between pdfcrop.pl and this pdfcrop.exe.)
However, in the command window: > pdfcrop --version pdfcrop: The Perl interpreter could not be found in CygWin: $ pdfcrop --version pdfcrop 2012/11/02 v1.38 but $ pdfcrop table.pdf table_cropped.pdf led to an error. So, after some experimentation, I found that 1) installing Strawberry Perl (64-bit) 5.18.2.1-64bit to C:\strawberry\ (default) and Ghostscript 9.14 to C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.14 (default) and 2) adding paths to both in the windows path and the cygwin path, as well as uninstalling the older version of perl that comes with cygwin _and_ removing it from the cygwin path gets it to work. In CygWin (note you have to specify gscmd since the default is gs): $ pdfcrop --gscmd gswin64c table.pdf table_cropped.pdf PDFCROP 1.38, 2012/11/02 - Copyright (c) 2002-2012 by Heiko Oberdiek. ==> 1 page written on `table_cropped.pdf'. and in the command window (note here you do _not_ need to specify gswin64c): > pdfcrop table.pdf table_cropped_win.pdf yielded the same outcome. On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Bert Lloyd <bert.lloyd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there a for-dummies guide anywhere for installing and using pdfcrop >> on Windows? (If such a thing is possible, that is.) I have a very >> basic familiarity with cygwin, but after struggling with what I found >> at >> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop >> I fear I am overmatched. >> > Have you tried installing pdfcrop via MiKTeX? That should work. > > Liviu > > >> W7-64bit, MikTeX 2.9 (which contains pdfcrop.exe and pdftex.exe, both >> in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64) >> Cygwin64 with perl v5.14.4, there does not appear to be an option to >> update perl when running Cygwin's setup-x86_64.exe update tool. >> >> Many thanks -- and apologies for incompetence -- in advance, >> >> BL >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> 2014-03-29 11:34 GMT+01:00 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torq...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> If I select "File -> Export -> Export as..", I can select "PDF >>>> (cropped)", but using it results in the popup message "No information >>>> for exporting the format PDF (cropped)". Is my system missing a >>>> particular program that is needed for cropped PDF export? >>> >>> >>> You need "pdfcrop": >>> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop >>> >>> HTH >>> Jürgen >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Best regards >>>> Torquil Sørensen >>>> >>> > > > > -- > Do you know how to read? > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader > Do you know how to write? > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
