On Monday 15 May 2006 14:12, Gustavo Homem wrote: > Hi, > > I would really like a nice looking Motif version of Scribus. > > Ok, now I really got your attention :-)
:-) > > Is there a reliable way to do PDF cropping on Linux? Nothing I would consider solid enough for pre-press. For pre-press, I am of the opinion the less you touch Scribus PDF export with commonly known Linux/Unix command line tools, the better. > > Searching with google I found: > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfcrop/ > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-February/msg02223.h >tml > > The first one seems to involve conversion to Tex, which doesn't > sound to good. Second one uses convert, from the Image Magik > package. > > But is this enough to use on press quality PDFs? > > The motivation for this is that people produce PDFs, with bleed > margins for printing. However when same PDFs are to be used for > viewing it would be nice to be able to remove the bleed margins > without having to change the source document. > > Any suggestions? > > Best regards > Gustavo > > P.S.: I hope nooone's ofended by the bad joke :-) It will go in the FAQ, along with the "Will there be a GTK port?" question. :-) There are exactly two possibly three desktop tools which can do this: Acrobat Pro - Cropping does not always work as intended with some PDF, depending on creating application. PitStop Pro from Enfocus - a special Acrobat plugin, which is the "swiss army knife" of PDF . More reliable at cropping in my experience. Quite a Box of Tricks.. - another special Acrobat plugin. I have no experience using this for cropping, but its editing features are pretty good. There are other tools, but those are usally part of a pre-press workflow system like Prinergy or Dalim. Note in the above desktop tools, they do not change the page size, merely the viewable part of the PDF. Peter
