[OS X TeX] trim pdf figures

[Edward Thome]

On Jun 22, 2004, at 7:09 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 22 juin 04, à 13:26, Themis Matsoukas a écrit :
>
>> On Jun 22, 2004, at 2:46 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>>
>>> All the software that I know (Adobe Illustrator, Mathematica, etc.), 
>>> that can export graphics to PDF format, export the graphics inside a 
>>> page of size the current paper size. I just can't understand why 
>>> this is so, since who needs a graphics on a mostly blank page? Is it 
>>> only laziness from the software providers?
>>
>> In Illustrator at least, you can choose the size of the page to match 
>> or even crop the graphic; then the image, whether pdf or eps, will 
>> contain no extra white space.
>>

Dr A. J. Carr posted a script (for the Terminal) and Heiko Oberdiek 
another sometime back, which crops pdf files.  I have a copy of each, 
but feel that perhaps they should give their permission before I post 
them back to the list.  Perhaps they'll read this and repost or give 
their permissions.

Ed

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