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With ghostscript, how to upscale a PDF file that is wider than taller so that the new width matches the width of a portrait A4 sheet of paper?
Let's take a PDF file that is slightly wider than taller, e.g., https://we.tl/t-iihJ3gMsrA :
pdfinfo input.pdf | grep "Page size"
Page size: 397.349 x 378.153 pts
Let's try to upscale ...
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How to stop Ghostscript from adding "Producer" metadata to PDF files
I processed a PDF file using Ghostscript:
gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -q -o output.pdf input.pdf
When I used a text/binary editor to look into the output PDF, I noticed that ...
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Combine PDFs to new PDF with filenames as bookmarks
I have a directory foo containing .pdf files named with pattern X01, X02, ..., each two pages long. I want to combine them to a new .pdf, named "all_YY-MM-DDTHHMMSS.pdf" that will contain ...
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How can you compress images in a PDF (via a GUI, not batch or CLI util)?
While there's similar questions on how to compress a PDF using a command-line tool like ghostscript, is there a GUI experience to compress a PDF file's images?
Previously on macOS I used tools like ...
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Using gs (Ghostscript) to extract fonts from PDF
I;m tried to use Ghostscript to extract fonts from PDF file. GPL Ghostscript 9.53.3 (2020-10-01) I downloaded extractFonts.ps tool and put it in same folder with PDF file. I also set permissions for ...
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Script portability to MacOS
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Catalina (zsh) & Homebrew: man pages return successfully for pdftk & ps2pdf
The goal is to execute: pdfBatesStamp.sh as described in https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/115537/182280
I ...
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Cannot open X display `(null)'. **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting
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gs myPSFile.ps
output:
GPL Ghostscript 9.50 (2019-10-15)
Copyright (C) 2019 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO ...
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How to scale down PDF file (in pixels and in cm)?
I need to automatically convert my pupils' solutions which are photos and scans of various orientations, resolution, quality and file format into a single PDF with fitting dimensions.
The dimensions ...
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methods of PDF compression
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I have a lot of old books that I want to scan and digitize. For this, I use some flatbed scanner, xsane and GImageReader, which works great.
Back a few years ago, when I was still using ...
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How can I standardize (normalize) the page size in a PDF with lots of small variations in page size?
My project is about processing a weekly newsletter into an annual PDF compilation.
The hard copy originals were scanned by someone else using Abbyy FineReader. The original documents were US letter ...
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How to convert only the first page of a PDF to a JPG with Ghostscript
I have a large set PDF documents, many of which will be multiple pages.
I am using Ghostscript [GS] to generate a JPG thumbnail image for each PDF.
I only want one JPG per PDF, which should be an ...
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Is it possible to turn off the "SAFER" option in Ghostscript?
I have a latex program that creates an svg file looking like this:
*** WARNING - you have selected SAFER, indicating you want Ghostscript
to execute in a safer environment, but at the ...
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cups remove jobs after 5 minutes
I have a print job that uses ghostscript as a filter to print a composite ps file. This file produces errors to the /var/log/cups/error_log and is not being removed from the queue even after 1 day (...
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apt-get install - when running installed program: no such file or directory
I have installed and build ghostscript and graphicsmagick from source
Have deleted both directories because I want to install them via apt-get
apt-get install --reinstall graphicsmagick ghostscript
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Copy machine refuses my pdf [closed]
I regularly need to convert pdf document in A4 format into US letter format.
Following Convert pdf to a different page size (US Letter -> A4), I use
pdfjam --outfile out.pdf --paper letter in.pdf
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