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| cybrNaut | I need to create a PDF that takes care to keep content out of the unprintable region for a specific printer | 13:06.06 |
| | 3mm on the left, and 5mm on the top, right, and bottom | 13:06.19 |
| | is the "TrimBox" the correct parameter for defining the unprintable region? | 13:07.01 |
| | I'm trying to use this cmd => gs -o a4_with_margins.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dFIXEDMEDIA -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS="/printer" -c '<< /PDFXTrimBoxToMediaBoxOffset [8.5 14 14 14] >> setdistillerparams' -dUseTrimBox -dPDFFitPage nearly_a4_src.ps | 14:34.40 |
| | the trimbox is the same as the media box when I run => pdfinfo -box -f 1 -l 1 a4_with_margins.pdf | 14:35.48 |
| | so my PDFXTrimBoxToMediaBoxOffset setting is being ignored | 14:36.05 |
| | -c is undocumented in the man page.. wonder if my version is too old for this | 15:06.17 |
| ray_laptop | cybrNaut: You probably need to "fit" the input (PS) to the desired page. The distillerparam PDFXTrimBoxToMediaBoxOffset allows you to set a TrimBox in the PDF produced, but does not guarantee that the consumer/reader of the PDF will pay attention to the TrimBox. | 22:51.57 |
| | For example, Ghostscript uses MediaBox by default, and AFAIK Adobe uses CropBox by default if present, if not, it uses MediaBox. I'm not sure if it uses TrimBox | 22:52.52 |
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