[PLUG] Clipping White Space in PDF File

[Eric Wilhelm]

# from Rich Shepard
# on Friday 04 November 2005 11:03 am:

>   I have figures that are natively in PDF. The smallest default page
> size is 'letter.' My drawings are only a small part of the page and I
> want to trim away the excess white space. The pdftk utility doesn't
> do this. Can someone recommend a tool or method?

If you don't mind losing the vector data (assuming that it actually *is* 
vectors), import into the gimp and crop.

I'm not immediately aware of any open-source vector editors that support 
pdf import.

--Eric
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