Perhaps I'm the only one who did not know that texlive provides a tool,
pdfjam, that allows us to convert PDF page sizes. In case others would find
this useful I'll explain how I used the stackexchange answer to convert from
A4 page size to letter page size.
I downloaded a recipe posted on the Web by an Australian cook so the printed
page size was A4. Printing it on letter paper cuts off the bottom of the
first page. So I used pdfinfo and pdfjam for the conversion like this:
$ pdfinfo chinese-bbq-pork.pdf
Creator: cairo 1.9.5 (http://cairographics.org)
Producer: cairo 1.9.5 (http://cairographics.org)
Tagged: no
Pages: 2
Encrypted: no
Page size: 612 x 1008 pts
File size: 881294 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version: 1.5
$ pdfjam --outfile out.pdf --paper letter chinese-bbq-pork.pdf
----
pdfjam: This is pdfjam version 2.08.
pdfjam: Reading any site-wide or user-specific defaults...
##
## From /etc/pdfjam.conf:
##
tempfileDir='/var/tmp'
tidy='true'
keepinfo='false'
checkfiles='false'
paper='letterpaper'
outFile="$pwd"
suffix='pdfjam'
landscape='false'
twoside='false'
preamble=''
pdfjam: Effective call for this run of pdfjam:
/usr/bin/pdfjam --outfile out.pdf --paper letter --
chinese-bbq-pork-1.pdf -
pdfjam: Calling pdflatex...
pdfjam: Finished. Output was to 'out.pdf'.
Then I renamed out.pdf to the recipe's name after confirming the process
worked as expected:
$ pdfinfo out.pdf
Creator: TeX
Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.19
CreationDate: Tue Feb 5 14:05:57 2019
ModDate: Tue Feb 5 14:05:57 2019
Tagged: no
Pages: 2
Encrypted: no
Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size: 878585 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version: 1.5
This is a very useful tool to add to my collection of PDF tools. Hope you
also have use for it.
Regards,
Rich
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