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Print

Direct print to Brother

Use pdf 1.3

Convert pdf:

localps2pdf

...or try tab-complete for alternative scripts, or look at underlying scripts pdftopsand pstopdf13.

Direct print odd format

pdftocairo -pdf -paper A4 infile outfile
pdftops %f
ps2pdf13 infile outfile

Resize PDF with crop marks

Ghostscript resizing is done by first defining target size and then tell to resize content to fit that target with FitPage.

For a PDF document containing bleed and/or crop marks, setting a simple target PAPERSIZE would either scale too much or (e.g. with -dUseArtBox) would loose bleed and crop marks. Instead we look up original width and height with the command pdfinfo and explicitly set those values scaled down by 21/29.7 (the ratio between A3 and A4 page formats).

Example command, for a PDF document with width 910.24 and height 1258.9:

gs -o output.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=643.60333 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=890.131 -dFIXEDMEDIA -dFitPage -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 input.pdf