UBUNTU HOW TO REMOVE / REDUCE WHITE / BLANK MARGINS / SPACE ON PDF

Posted by rolf on Friday, 5 February 2016

In Ubuntu as an alternative to fineprint, page-crunch is suggested, but I don't find it useful, as multiple sheet printing is also available with the normal printing menu in ubuntu.

What is not available in page-crunche though is to put multiple sheets on one page and reduce the white space of each sheet.

To reduce the white space in a pdf use pdfcrop:

Use pdfcrop, see e.g. this blog

pdfcrop input.pdf output.pdf

To install it in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install texlive-extra-utils

Then this pdf whitout white margins can be printed.

If you prefer a graphical interface for cropping pdfs use briss.

An alternative to that might be pdfbooklet, that also lets you create booklets.

 

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