On Mar 8, 2011, at 17:04, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've read in the discussions/FAQ that to preserve the cropped view of a pdf, > it has to be exported. > > So far that works fine, however the file size did not change at all (and > opened in preview I can still see the whole original pages). > > So I assume that it is still only the display of the pdf which has changed > and not the contents. > > I would like to cut off the cropped margins permanently to save disk space > (and memory when working with the pdfs). > > -> Is there a way to do that with Skim? > > -> if no, could it be possible with another tool (commandline or whatever) > to use the cropped size defined in skim and "cut off" everything around? > > Kind regards > > Martin There is no way to change the contents of a PDF. A PDF is a set of drawing instructions, which by itself have no direct knowledge of whether they're drawn in inside or outside the visible page space. It's not a set of pixels where you can simply remove some of them. (Well, the only way would be to turn it into a set of pixels, i.e. an image, crop those pixels, and convert back to PDF. However that will almost certainly increase the file size and decrease the quality.) Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
