Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Command line tool to crop PDF documents?
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 03:16:36PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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. Yes, it's Bash; I mentioned Perl and GhostScript as they are dependencies of the script. > 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. This is a known issue with some of the language packages hard-blocking newer versions of the base TeXLive packages, as a new release of the base doesn't necessarily mandate a new release of all the subsidiary packages [1]. For a number of years, I (uses TeX every day) just used the standalone installer provided by TUG.org, as the blocking used to be much harder to resolve. $ eix '-I#' dev-texlive/texlive-lang > texlive-lang-packages $ emerge --deselect=n --unmerge texlive-latex texlive-basic \ $(cat texlive-lang-packages) $ emerge -uDN1a @world [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/TeX_Live#Upgrading -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Command line tool to crop PDF documents?
On 2020-05-21, Ashley Dixon 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
[gentoo-user] Re: Command line tool to crop PDF documents?
On 2020-05-21, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:21:26PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Google has found various references to 'croppdf' which is included >> in a package of texlive extra utilities on Ubuntu. Gentoo seems >> have 38 different 'texlive' ebuilds. Is there any way to tell >> which (if any) contains croppdf? > > You can use the e-file command from app-portage/pfl to check which > package in Portage provides a specific file---including binaries. > Emerge pfl and run `e-file pdfcrop`. Yep. It looks like pdfcrop from texlive-core will do what I want. It would have helped if I hadn't trasmuted "pdfcrop" to "croppdf" when I was searching for info! I initially just trield downloading pdfcrop.pl and running it without texlive installed, but it relies on texpdf. -- Grant
