Petr’s blog about Linux

It’s happened to me one time, that I want to trim margins from PDF document.

It was a manual for Panasonic G1 camera: http://ftp.xvx.cz/pub/docs/my/panasonic_g1.pdf

You can see huge margins there, because it was officially written for A5 paper and they create manual for A4.

See the picture:

I used pdfcrop script from Heiko Oberdiek, which can easily trim margins.

Here is the result:

I hope this can be useful for somebody who needs this…
KDE pdf viewer Okular, has the function “Trim Margins”, which works very well, but you can not save the PDF…