In default, PDFCrop use Ghostscript bbox device to determine the bounding box for each page and crop that page using the detected bounding box. However, it's possible to specify a bounding box for all pages instead of detect it every page. You may also set different bounding box for odd and even pages or add margins to each page. Consequently, Americans and Italians who exchange documents with each other may experience printing problems because letter size paper is 8.5in. x 11in, while A4 size paper is 8.27in x 11.7in. PDFCrop solves these problems by removing the white margins and rescaling the pages to fit the user's desired paper size. the "pdf-crop-margins" utility, which is a PyPi (Python) package and so is "pip installable" with pip install pdfCropMargins Notes: 1. If you have a personal pretext.cfg file you need to edit pdfcrop = pdfcrop => pdfcrop = pdf-crop-margins 2. If Python's "pip" drives you crazy, you might enjoy a virtual environment. Automatically trim PDF white margins We can automatically determine what is the optimal crop size so all white margins are removed. Click on 'Auto-crop' right above the page. Specify precise crop margins in inches Exact dimensions can be specified for the cropped margins. Input the top, left, bottom and right margins above the PDF page. Ships in with a virtual PDF printer. 2. PDF Quench. PDF Quench is a graphical Python application for cropping pages in PDF files. PDF Quench Editor. It enables users to crop pages with correct rotation, defines PDF crop box to the same position as meda box, this helps to deal with the issue of cropping the 2nd time. 3. Matplotlib tips & tricks Transparency Scatterplotscanbeenhancedbyusingtransparency(al-pha)inordertoshowareawithhigherdensity.Multiplescat If you press Trim Margins on a page without selections, then krop will automatically create a region for the full page with the margins trimmed. You can use command line arguments in addition to (or, to a degree, instead of) the graphical interface. Run krop --help to get a list of all possible arguments. For instance, to automatically undo 4 15.2 Run Python code and interact with Python; 15.3 Execute content conditionally via the asis engine; 15.4 Execute Shell scripts; 15.5 Visualization with D3; 15.6 Write the chunk content to a file via the cat engine. 15.6.1 Write to a CSS file; 15.6.2 Include LaTeX code in the preamble; 15.6.3 Write YAML data to a file and also display it; 15. pdfcrop --margins '5 10 5 20' --clip input.pdf output.pdf For me it comes with tetex. I think it is also in TexLive or similar. If you can use Python, I think the best tool is the pyPdf, it is very very fast at manipulating the pdf files. It does not need to convert pdf into ps and back again. There are several scripts using this package on Git Clone URL: aur.archlinux.org/pdfcropmargins.git (read-only, click to copy) : Package Base: pdfcropmargins Description: Automatically crops the margins of