[HN Gopher] Show HN: Pdfscale
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       Show HN: Pdfscale
        
       Bash Script to scale and/or resize PDFs from the command line. Uses
       ghostscript (gs) to create a scaled and/or resized version of the
       pdf input.
        
       Author : sargstuff
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2024-06-21 23:17 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | notrealyme123 wrote:
       | I think I did not run into a use case yet. Could you give a
       | example?
        
         | throwanem wrote:
         | I might use this for better margins when printing PDFs I didn't
         | generate for bookbinding; it's not rare PDFs (research papers,
         | etc) are rendered with shallow margins for full-page print,
         | maybe with a deeper gutter to allow for three-hole punching,
         | but a perfect-bound book requires deeper margins all around to
         | account for trimming and since PDF doesn't reflow, downscaling
         | is the only feasible option.
         | 
         | Granted, this is something I already have a workflow for, so I
         | don't actually need this particular tool. But if I were
         | assembling such a workflow, I might well consider this as part
         | of it.
        
           | apwheele wrote:
           | I have not used this specific tool, but have used
           | https://community.coherentpdf.com/ for the
           | cropping/rescaling. And in general "printing" (posters) is
           | what I have used it for (books make sense though as well).
           | 
           | Depending on the site and what you are doing it may auto-
           | rescale, I try to make it exact though just to prevent any
           | nonsense on their end (and in Adobe PDF you can print tile to
           | check it out as well in actual size).
        
         | thih9 wrote:
         | You might want to make the content of a pdf as big as possible
         | (e.g. to zoom/scroll less on an eink device). This tool could
         | help, you could use it to remove margins or otherwise crop.
        
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