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| author | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2022-12-11 20:52:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2022-12-11 20:52:12 +0100 |
| commit | 82ccc96de73b8118d488fa48bf03850adf543bd9 (patch) | |
| tree | 04def5bcc759738c46d83548b7286fae8fce199f | |
| parent | b36f8331a0eabd4e2d3923174645d419e2086130 (diff) | |
fix reorder arguments to ensure command overrides code in file
| -rw-r--r-- | USE.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -154,15 +154,16 @@ resizing from A4 to printable-area-A4 (i.e. a dumb printer always auto-resizing to fit): gs -o output.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -dFIXEDMEDIA -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \ - -c "<</EndPage {0 eq {[/CropBox [0 0 567 802] /PAGE pdfmark true}{false}ifelse}>> setpagedevice" -f input.pdf + -f input.pdf -c "<</EndPage {0 eq {[/CropBox [0 0 567 802] /PAGE pdfmark true}{false}ifelse}>> setpagedevice" + +NB! It is important to list option `-f` before `-c`, +to ensure that any `CropBox` marks in file is [overridden] by the command. TODO: maybe options `-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS` and `-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS` are superfluous TODO: maybe options `-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS` and `-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS` can be shortened as `-dDEVICEWIDTH` and `-dDEVICEHEIGHT` -TODO: maybe works only with `CropMark` applied for whole PDF file (and when none are applied?) but [fails] when input file already contain per-page `CropMark` hints - Source: <https://stackoverflow.com/a/26989410> -[fails]: <https://stackoverflow.com/a/6184547/18619283> - "stackoverflow answer mentioning need for mangling existing /CropMark annotations" +[overridden]: <https://stackoverflow.com/a/59608992> + "stackoverflow answer mentioning importance of Ghostscript argument order" |