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NAME

       PDFCROP - crop pdf files to their minimal size.

SYNOPSIS

       pdfcrop [OPTIONS ...] input[.pdf] [output file]

DESCRIPTION

       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

OPTIONS

       --help print usage

       --version
              print version

       --(no)verbose
              verbose printing                      (default: false)

       --(no)debug
              debug informations                    (default: false)

       --gscmd <name>
              call of ghostscript                   (default: gs)

       --pdftexcmd <name>
              call of pdfTeX                        (default: pdftex)

       --margins "<left> <top> <right> <bottom>"
              (0 0 0 0) add extra margins, unit is bp. If only one  number  is
              given,  then  it  is  used  for  all margins, in the case of two
              numbers they are also used for right and bottom.

       --(no)clip
              clipping support, if margins are set  (default: false)

       --(no)hires
              using   `%%HiResBoundingBox'    instead    of    `%%BoundingBox'
              (default: false)

       --papersize <foo>
              parameter  for  gs's  -sPAPERSIZE=<foo>,  use only with older gs
              versions <7.32

EXAMPLES

              pdfcrop --margins 10 input.pdf output.pdf

              pdfcrop --margins '5 10 5 20' --clip input.pdf output.pdf

AUTHORS

       pdfcrop has been written by Heiko Oberdiek.  This manual page has  been
       written  by  Frank Kuster for the Debian/GNU Linux distribution and may
       be freely used, modified and/or distributed by anyone.