I have a pdf book that is not showing up completely. I have attached a screenshot of acrobat's print preview showing what the issue is. As you can see there is more conentent on the left of the page that is not showing up.
I have tried:
Changing the paper size
Changing the dimensions to "fit"
Opening in Google docs
Opening in mac's preview
Opening in Google Books.
Any ideas of what I can try
As a late answer and when using Linux, one can use the command line tool "pdfjam".
Add margins to pages
Desired result: remove 0.5 cm from top and bottom of page, add 2 cm to right margin. Keep page size (important)
pdfjam --fitpaper true --trim "0cm 0.5cm -2cm 0.5cm" input.pdf -o output.pdf
Negative numbers in the trim-argument means "add", while a positive means "remove".
The four numbers within the trim-arguments relates to the left, bottom, right and top margin
If fitpaper is set to false the trim will move the content around the page and not resize the page.
You can add "--frame true" to see what's going on.
Move content to the left
Desired result: make right margin 1 cm larger and left margin 1 cm smaller
pdfjam --offset "-1cm 0cm" input.pdf -o output.pdf
The command below will move the content of the page 1 cm from right to left.
pdfjam and documentation
Documentation about pdfjam can be found here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/firth/software/pdfjam
The combination of pdfinfo, pdftk and pdfjam can be used to modify PDFs quickly on a more advanced level.
If I was you, I would check if PDF page boxes are correct. Especially if document looks fine in viewer but offset in print preview.
The issue might be caused by any of the boxes defined so they are outside of MediaBox.
Another approach to try is to impose this document onto other document with some offset. Others recommend Multivalent and Ghostscript for the task.
Without seeing the PDF it is hard to determine the exact reason for what you're seeing, but often the reason is that the CropBox is smaller than the MediaBox. The MediaBox is the size of the physical page and the CropBox is the area of the page that is viewed or printed. If no CropBox is specified then its value is inherited from the MediaBox.
You can programmatically get the page box dimensions and also set them using my companies free PDF SDK. It's an ActiveX for Windows and it is called Debenu Quick PDF Library Lite.
Upload the PDF and share a link if the page box dimensions do not solve the mystery.
Fixed it!
I had to change the page size of the file (Printing to pdf on a larger paper didnt work)
Steps to get it down:
Open Adobe Acrobat Plus
Click on "tools"
Click on "Crop" (which is under the "Page" section)
Double click anywhere on the pdf
Under "Change page size" make it larger then what it is
apply to all!
That's it!
Related
I receive postage labels from a supplier as single page pdf documents. The labels would fit on an A5 sheet but they are presented as a portrait within an A4 page, also in portrait orientation. I would like to be able to print two of these labels per A4 page to cut down on waste.
This can be achieved by rotating the page content without rotating the page itself. Or by resizing the page by swapping the height and width about the content. I am aware that both of these things can result in content being lost, which isn't a problem for my use case. Ideally I'd like a command line application that works on both Linux or Windows machines. Unfortunately, web searches for "rotate" or "resize" pdf will point to the many applications that just rotate or resize pdf pages along with the content which isn't what I want.
Similar questions:
With PdfBox: identical use case, see my comments on PdfBox below.
With iText: almost identical use case, I explicitly don't want any resizing of the content. See my comments on iText below as well.
Things I have investigated tried:
pdftk - too basic
ImageMagick - the original image contains transparency and the extent argument results in a visible loss of quality
pdfjam - also requires install of Latex and PdfPages. Ideally I'd like something that works on both Windows and Linux.
iText7 - the documentation isn't great. Looks like it was completely re-written in the last few years and the Nuget feed makes it clear that previous version, iTextSharp, is EOL. Consequently most of the examples one finds online (including on this site) are out of date. iText7 doesn't let you resize a page. I got as far as saving a document with a new page that was the right size but struggling to copy the content over. I think I could get what I wanted from this but it would take a long time and I'm trying to do something simple.
PdfBox - I've already tried one .NET library without success. Looking at the comments to the question I've linked above, this one seems to also have a version issue. I'm trying to do something really simple here, I will try this one if I exhaust all other avenues
Gimp - does what I want but I have to fire up the application, point and click quite a few times to rescale the image canvas, set the background and export
Screenshot the label from a pdf reader at 100% size and paste into a Word/LibreOffice doc. Sadly this is the most reliable method I have at the moment
I have example labels but they contain the name and address of people I've sent things to, I'd rather not upload them.
Try the command line tool cpdf from here: https://community.coherentpdf.com
cpdf -rotate-contents <angle> in.pdf -o out.pdf
to rotate contents without rotating the page. or...
cpdf -mediabox "100 100 600 500" in.pdf -o out.pdf
(and -cropbox and so on) to change page dimensions without altering content. Chapter 3 of the manual is of relevance.
You can also prepare the file by removing any page rotation whilst counter-rotating the content to leave the visual appearance unchanged:
cpdf -upright in.pdf -o out.pdf
I am getting a BMP from a PDF with GhostScript, but its content is not fitted into page boundaries. Even I try any option, I am not able to get the content fitted.
I've tried to generate the BMP with different GhostScript options, but noone seems to fit 100% ok the content.
This is the last command I tried. Please, don't expect it to have what I need, just copied & paste from tty.
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPSFitPage -sDEVICE=bmpmono -sOutputFile=Betlem.bmp -g1184x968 -c "<</PageSize [900 500]>> setpagedevice 0 0 translate" -c "<</PageOffset [-23 -100]>> setpagedevice" -f Betlem.pdf
I am expecting to get the content fitted into the BMP image borders, without exception of a pixel. I am using an OpenCV & Python function to extract content and fit in new image and this is the debug:
initial BMP image resolution = (872, 900)
BMP image resolution after fit content into new page = (541, 870)
Have a look to the following thread for the fitting funtion in Python:
I can't find a way to fit contour on new image zero point
You are using PSFitPage for a PDF file, you should be using PDFFitPage or just FitPage.
Note that the 'fitting' in this case is fitting the PDF media size to the existing media. If the PDF content leaves white space around the edge of the media, then the resulting scaling will include that.
In addition you are using PostScript to offset the page origin, which will introduce white space, and you are trying to change the media size, which won't work because you've set -dFIXEDMEDIA. Using these in combination with any of the FitPage switches is not likely to work well.
Randomly stabbing at controls and copying bits of code intended to solve different problems isn't likely to help you I'm afraid.
Without seeing an example file I can't, of course, tell you how to solve your problem, and I'm not really sure exactly what you are trying to achieve. A bitmap with no white space ? A bitmap of a given size with no white space ? Something else ?
[Edit]
OK so looking at the PDF file, the media box is 11.69x8.27 inches, there is white space at the top, bottom, left and right between the marks on the page and the edge of the media.
Running this through Ghostscript, to TIFF at 72 dpi results in a file which Adobe Photoshop says is 11.694x8.264 inches and has white space at top bottom left and right, just like the PDF file.
By default Ghostscript uses the Media size from the PDF to render to, however you can change this. If you were to change the media size to (say) 5.8x4.14 inches, set -dFIXEDMEDIA and then rendered the PDF file what would happen is that the top and right hand side of the PDF file would be 'off the page' so you would only get the left hand portion rendered. Try this:
gs -DEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=421 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=298 -dFIXEDMEDIA "A betlem m en vull anar(1).pdf"
You will see the white space is still present at bottom and left, and the top and right have fallen off the page.
Now, if you add FitPage that will scale the original media down until it fits the new media size (and all the content too, of course). If you try:
gs -DEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=421 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=298 -dFIXEDMEDIA -dFitPage "A betlem m en vull anar(1).pdf"
You'll see that the output is the same physical dfimensions as the previous command, but now the whole of the PDF content can be seen because its been scaled down. You should also see that the distribution of white space has changed, because I didn't strictly divide by 2 in each direction. The FitPage switch scaled the content in both directions by the same amount, and distributed the extra space in the x direction evenly to each side, as new white space.
Now I've no clue what you mean by 'simmetric'. You can undoubtedly do what you want using Ghostscript and the PostScript language, but I don't know what it is you want. Pointing me at Python code isn't going to help I'm afraid, I don't speak Python.
I can say that Ghostscript does not add extra white space that isn't present in the original unless you mess with the rendering by addding parameters like FitPage and FIXEDMEDIA.
If you can explain what you are trying to achieve I can probably tell you what to do.
Referring to a previous question
Inserting a pdf file in latex
I'd like to ask how to insert a PDF page into a latex document by filling exactly one page.
If I include a page with design elements that extent to zero margin off the page edges, the solution provided in the link will result in the following, adding white margins of different sizes to the included page:
how do do this propably?
i did workaround-solve it by
\includepdf[noautoscale = true,scale=1.03 ]{<file>}
but this dos not precisely match the old page edges with the new ones. is there a clean version?
Solutions that did not bring the desired results:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/105589/insert-pdf-file-in-latex-document
Thanks!
To adjust the width and height for your pdf pages. First you should use noautoscale to be able to use width and height.
Remark: don't use fitpaper=true or trim=Left Bottom Right Top because they are for geometry page not to adjust your pdf pages.
\documentclass[]{book}
\usepackage[]{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages={1},noautoscale,width=5cm,height=10cm]{your.pdf}
\end{document}
For a deck of lecture slides, I have extracted several vector illustrations from a PDF-file. I did this by highlighting the relevant area in Preview.app, copying, and opening a new file from the clipboard.
The figures look just fine, even though I noticed that the files are a little large. When I open them in Illustrator, I can see what's described in the screenshot – that all of the page content is still there, it's just hidden because it lies outside the crop area.
Now I could simply remove everything except the relevant figures in Illustrator, but I would much rather automate the process, since I have a large number of figures.
How can I automate this process such that everything outside the crop area is discarded and everything inside it is preserved as a vector image?
You can use redact utility to remove the content.
Just go to https://doxiview.cib.de/showcase/index.html?locale=default
Choose redact tool
upload your PDF
Choose on the right Select Area and redact fill color as white
Mark all content, which you want to remove
click on apply
download PDF
Afterwards you can crop the PDF and you won't have the content being still there.
There's no need to rasterize. Just crop the pages then use Acrobat DC to "Sanitize" the document. That will completely remove any non-visible parts of the file.
In Acrobat Pro, go to Preflight and select the setting below.
Then click edit to the right
You should be able to create Adobe droplets with this preflight setting for automation
When i draw a small circle in LibreOffice draw and export it to pdf i get some extra dots around the circles. Especially in the upper left and lower right outer corner of the circle.
See example PDF here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/233922/example-dots-circle.pdf
or as a Screenshot here:
You have any idea how i can get rid of this?
It is old bug and has not been fixed yet. I can reproduce it under Linux and Windows. My version: LibreOffice 4.1.0.
Create new file in LO Impress or LO Draw.
Draw ellipse (or rounded rectangle, or smile etc.).
Set line width e.g. 5mm (for better view).
Export as PDF.
I propose two workaround:
Export to MS PowerPoint and export in it :/
Print to PDF (using e.g. cups-pdf).
ad 1) You must have MS PP and you graphics may look bad.
ad 2) I use cups-pdf and PDF look very well, but:
Text is stored as bitmap graphics (small rectangles)! You can not extract text without using OCR.
You must use paper format from list (A4, A0, Letter etc.). If you use unstandardised paper format you must use bigger format and you get white bars on PDF. However you can use pdfcrop and remove white bars.
PDF is always orienter horizontally. If you print as vertically you can rotate pdf using pdf270 command line tool.
In Adobe Reader (version 11 at least) -> Go to "Preferences" => "Page Display" => uncheck "Enhance thin lines"
Libre Office seems to add dots of 0 size and practically no visibility. When "Enhance thin lines" is checked, Adobe Reader will make these dots visible.
Best wishes,
Patrick
Similar to the https://stackoverflow.com/users/1797782/dzwiedziu-nkg 's answer, I need a multi-step process to fix this issue.
Steps:
Open the file in a pdf viewer (Document Viewer for me in Ubuntu.)
Print the pdf to a file (also a pdf) from the viewer. I assume this also uses cups-pdf, as it modifies the image size. (I don't mind, because I use the next step to eliminate all margins anyways.)
Use pdfcrop to remove all the extra space around the actual content's bounding box. If you just give pdfcrop one argument, it doesn't overwrite the old file, so use the same argument twice:
$ pdfcrop monkey.pdf monkey.pdf
Another "workaround" that worked for me:
Go without outline. You can set the line style in Draw to "none" and just work with flat solid objects.
PS: I see these dots also in Draw, not just in the exported pdf.
A simple workaround is to "patch" the dot in Libreoffice Draw using a white object -- say, a square with white area and white outline. Note that you can not see the dot in Draw. So you first generate the pdf with the orginal drawing, see where the dot appears in the pdf, go back to Draw, and a add a white patch where it is required.
Searching for a workaround myself, I've found this awk script called odg2epsfix that will fix the exported EPS to not contain those ghost dots anymore.
I stumbled upon it in this launchpad bug entry.
Fixed in LibreOffice pre-export.
Steps:
Right click on the circle in LibreOffice and select "Line"
On the "Line" page, set "Corner Style" to "-none-"
Save document and Export as PDF.
The dot is gone without removing line enhance. Mine still shows in preview but doesn't print.
The bug is still present in LO 6.0. But if you set "Cap style" to "flat" in the "Line" tab of the "Graphic Styles", the dots disappear from the screen and from the exported pdf.