Leonard, Thank you very much for your prompt response.
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > Each of the spreads is DUPLICATED in the PDF - and then cropped (CropBox != > MediaBox) to the right > or left accordingly. That's why it renders as single pages, because that's > what is defined as the viewable area. Ha! I guess that makes sense. > Apparently the commands you are using with ImageMagick aren't respecting that > cropbox. > Start by making sure you are current with IM and also Ghostscript. Yes, I am at latest on both. [mth@localhost ~]$ convert -version Version: ImageMagick 6.6.7-3 2011-01-28 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2011 ImageMagick Studio LLC Features: OpenMP [mth@localhost ~]$ gs -version GPL Ghostscript 9.00 (2010-09-14) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. [mth@localhost ~]$ Looks like they are not respecting the CropBox. I'll post messages to magick-users and see what they say. Actually ... *** 2 minutes later *** I found the following at: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php PDF RW Portable Document Format Requires Ghostscript to read. By default, ImageMagick sets the page size to the MediaBox. Some PDF files, however, have a CropBox or TrimBox that is smaller than the MediaBox and may include white space, registration or cutting marks outside the CropBox or TrimBox. To force ImageMagick to use the CropBox or TrimBox rather than the MediaBox, use -define (e.g. -define pdf:use-cropbox=true or -define pdf:use-trimbox=true). Use -density to improve the appearance of your PDF rendering (e.g. -density 300x300). *** 5 minutes later *** Ha! That did the trick! I followed the instructions and added the following to my ImageMagick convert command line before the .pdf filename -define pdf:use-cropbox=true and it did the right thing. Leonard, thank you *very* much. Michael _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
