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How do I rescale cropped material with pdfcrop

I'm running pdfcrop (version 1.31) on Mac OSX. From what I read on pdfcrop page I should be able to rescale the size of the final document. The suggested approach is pdfcrop infile.pdf letter ...
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Using pdfcrop within epstopdf?

Currently, my epstopdf is not able to convert eps to pdf correctly due to the boundingbox (atend) bug that the epstopdf does not support. However, I intend to use pdfcrop on the generated pdf file and ...
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A tool like pdfcrop2 that only *reduces margins from original* — as opposed to cropping and then allowing the addition of extra margins

I have a tool called pdfcrop2 that I've had for a while now. It's a perl script that fully crops PDF files to the actual content (removing all surrounding whitespace), and then allowing the addition ...
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pdfcrop does not work

I have just updated to MiKTeX 2.9 I am using Emacs and I run pdflatex --shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode "\input" Instructions.tex pdfcrop gives me the following error PDFCROP 1.33, ...
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pdfcrop fails to run on a file

I'm trying to remove the huge margins on the following PDF file for two pages per sheet printing: http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/216blog/FOAGaug1612public.pdf When I run: $ pdfcrop ...
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pdfcrop and --bbox command line option

This tool that's distributed with texlive has no actual documentation for the bbox parameter. It just says that --bbox "<left> <bottom> <right> <top>" What units do these ...
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The perfect pdfcrop

I need a "perfect" pdfcrop, one that crops exactly to the edge of the figure or text for alignment issues as a graphic in other programs. I'm aware of the standalone package, and have gone through ...
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pdfcrop for external pdf and colored background [closed]

This question is very close to pdfcrop fails to crop a PDF document with non-white background However, that question (and answers) refers to a PDF created with LaTeX and my question is about cropping ...
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pdfcrop generates larger file?

I use pdfcrop to remove margins from a 10MB PDF, 400pages. Margins are properly removed, but the resulting PDF is 51MB large? Any suggestions?
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Crop entire document around figure

Have you ever submitted a LaTeX paper to a journal that wants separate figures? When you want to include a figure composed of a table of images, you must build it separately. When I run latexpdf, I ...
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How can I create PDF & EPS exactly as big as my PSTricks picture but without using pdfcrop?

This question is made to accompany the existing question: How can I create a pdf document exactly as big as my tikz picture?. Constraints: It is not allowed to use pdfcrop by any means whatsoever. ...
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pdfcrop fails to crop a PDF document with non-white background

I have a PDF document created from the following input file. \documentclass[cmyk,a4paper]{minimal} \usepackage{geometry,xcolor} \pagecolor{cyan} \parindent=0bp \begin{document} \fbox{$\displaystyle ...
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Why does pdfcrop invoke pdftex internally?

What for does pdfcrop execute pdftex internally?
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Searching for a better workflow to get a cropped PDF and EPS graphics - Stage 1

I am using TeX Live 2010. I don't use MikTeX anymore because of many troubles I found in the past. Input files: gridon.tex: % gridon.tex \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{pstricks} ...
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Is it possible to force auto-pst-pdf to use --hires option when it internally invokes pdfcrop?

What is --hires for? To obtain a better result when cropping a pdf image produced by PSTricks, I use --hires option as follows latex filename.tex dvips filename.dvi ps2pdf ...