I've always used the command-line "pdfcrop" tool for this task (it's in TeXLive and MiKTeX).
"PDFCROP takes a PDF file as input, calculates the BoundingBox for each page by the help of ghostscript and generates a output PDF file with removed margins." JDO On Mar 17, 2024 at 11:21 PM -0700, list_email--- via Skim-app-users <[email protected]>, wrote: > I am making PDF plots using Plotly which sometimes leaves more white space at > the margins than seems necessary, especially when considering cramming them > into a column in a paper. Skim does a nice job of cropping, but I’m wondering > if there is a way to do this programmatically, e.g,. from Python, Julia, or > Ada. I know that Skim is scriptable but I can’t find anything in Skim’s > Applescript dictionary about cropping. > > I know that if there is an Applescript for doing this on a specified file or > all the PDFs in a folder that I can issue the command from any of the other > mentioned languages. I would gladly consider a non-Skim way also but I need a > method that detects the white-space margins rather than having me manually > determine the coordinates of a crop box since they will be different for > different images. > > Jerry > > > > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
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