On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:48 AM Galen Seitz <[email protected]> wrote:
In the course of a typical day, I may open 20 or more pdf files. The files are typically datasheets, schematics, and other documentation, and they come from a variety of sources, so there is a mix of page sizes and orientations.
The two PDF viewers I use most often are mupdf and xpdf. The documents they display vary based, I believe, on the application that created them. I've not found these differences to hinder my work, but there are times when I want to print the document and it's set for legal or A4 paper rather then letter paper. There's a solution: pdfjam. <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/firth/software/pdfjam/> It's also available at github and, apparently, included with TeXLive (which I didn't know.) The man page description: pdfjam provides a front end to most capabilities of the "pdfpages" package (by Andreas Matthias) of pdflatex. Detailed information can be found via "pdfjam --help", and also in the web page mentioned below . A working installation of pdflatex, with the pdfpages package, is required. The pdfjam script is distributed as (the main) part of the PDFjam package. The homepage of PDFjam is at http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pdfjam . I use it to change the page length to letter size from whatever size it is by default. I've not looked at using it to make other changes but it might be worth exploring to see if can produce a standard size to meet needs. It might be possible that a script would modify all PDF files in a directory rather than manually modifying each one. HTH, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
