Print PDF – How to Print PDF Scaled-Down and Aligned

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I want to print a PDF file with all pages scaled down equally (to, say, 70 %). The scaled-down pages should then be left-aligned on the printing paper.

This doesn't seem to be possible with lpr alone. With pdfjam I can scale the pages (--scale 0.7) but I don't know/see any option to align the scaled pages. A negative offset (like --offset '-3cm 0cm') doesn't work.

Best Answer

Ok, got it. The key to success is to explicitly specify paper size.

Example, original PDF has DIN A4 page size, then

pdfjam --a4paper --scale 0.5 ---offset "-7cm 0cm" -- inputfiles

does the trick. I'm not sure why -x with x<10 didn't work before.

Method #1 - pdfcrop

There's a command line tool called pdfcrop that sounds like what you're looking for.

pdfcrop 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

Examples

$ pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf
$ pdfcrop --margins ’5 10 5 20’ --clip input.pdf output.pdf

Method #2 - pdfjam

As an alternative there's another tool called pdfjam.

$ pdfjam --twoside --offset '2cm 0cm' file.pdf

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