It can be done through AppleScript, however. The following sets each page's
bounds to the content bounds on three sides, also subtracting off the built-in
10-pixel boundary normally used by Auto Crop, then adding back in on the
appropriate side a gutter (which when viewed in Facing Pages) of total size
gutterSize (up to the original bounds of the page - it can't add in a gutter
that doesn't exist in the underlying PDF).
set gutterSize to 50
tell application "Skim"
tell document 1
set thePages to pages
set isOdd to true
repeat with thePage in thePages
set theContentBounds to (content bounds of thePage) --
L T R B
set item 2 of theContentBounds to (item 2 of
theContentBounds) - 10
set item 4 of theContentBounds to (item 4 of
theContentBounds) + 10
if isOdd is true then
set item 1 of theContentBounds to (item 1 of
theContentBounds) + 10
set item 3 of theContentBounds to (item 3 of
theContentBounds) - 10 + (gutterSize / 2)
set isOdd to false
else
set item 3 of theContentBounds to (item 3 of
theContentBounds) - 10
set item 1 of theContentBounds to (item 1 of
theContentBounds) + 10 - (gutterSize / 2)
set isOdd to true
end if
set bounds of thePage to theContentBounds
end repeat
end tell
end tell
On 2010-03-05, at 2:13 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 21:00, Sophie wrote:
>
>> I often crop my PDFs in Skim to eliminate white-space and get more
>> readable font size on screen, reading 2 pages side-by-side. It works
>> great. One small side effect, though, reduces the readability: when
>> the white space is removed, the text column for left and right pages
>> come very close together, as the gutter separating the two pages
>> remains the same.
>>
>> So the 2 text columns become crunched together in the middle, while
>> there is a lot of empty space to left + right of the screen.
>>
>> Any way the gutter size could be made tweak-able e.g. via a
>> preference, or intelligently enlarge itself?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> No, that's not possible.
>
> Christiaan
>
>
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