[OS X TeX] Cut a piece of a pdf
Alain Schremmer
schremmer.alain at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 22:55:38 EDT 2010
On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:36 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
> On Jun 15, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to cut and keep just a piece of a pdf, say the top
>> third of a page?
>>
>> I have googled a bit but did not find anything other than cutting
>> out a page from a multiple page document or cropping the margins,
>> none of which is what I want.
>>
>> The only way I know how to do it is by grabbing a selection with
>> Preview but the result is not too good.
>>
>> Hopeful regards
>> --schremmer
>
> Howdy,
>
> Take a look at using \includegraphics and setting a crop box or
> whatever it's called.
>
> Good Luck,
Once again, with you I don't need luck as, indeed, with the graphicx
package, the syntax for trimming 10mm off the left side, 215 off the
bottom and 40mm off the top is
\includegraphics[trim=10mm 215mm 0mm 40mm,clip]{Figure8}
LaTeX is truly something else!
Very grateful regards.
--schremmer
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