ghostscriptpdfprinting
I'm trying to print a simple US Letter document, but for some reason, I just cannot manage to fit it properly onto A4 when printing multiple pages per-list.
I have tried converting the pdf using:
gs -o print.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dFIXEDMEDIA -pPDFFitPage -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 input.pdf
But this does not seem to have any effect on the document, it still shows as US letter.
Any way how to convert a pdf to A4 format?
In my experience the better way to manipulate PDF is via Inkscape.
If the PDF is well structured (not true everytime...) you can select the elements and manipulate them, like zooming or changing the font size:
(This example is from a not-so-well-behaved PDF, though).
There's a command line tool called pdfcrop that sounds like what you're looking for.
Examplespdfcrop is a utility to calculate and remove empty margins from each page in the input PDF file. The resulting output file occupies the minimal paper size needed for the contents and is therefore suitable for inclusion as a graphic
$ pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf
$ pdfcrop --margins ’5 10 5 20’ --clip input.pdf output.pdf
As an alternative there's another tool called pdfjam.
$ pdfjam --twoside --offset '2cm 0cm' file.pdf
Best Answer
One solution that usually works is to use
pdfjamfrom the texlive distributionSetting the paper size to something unconventional works with another switch, such as
--papersize '{6.125in,9.250in}'.As you can see here it also changed the PDF version, and dropped/modified other properties of the PDF, so you have to check if its suitable for your task.