On 15 May 2017 at 19:36, mick mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
So - here's an idea (which worked for me). Open the original PDF in any PDF viewer (I used the default Mate desktop Document Viewer) and resize the image on screen to something sensible. Then use a screenshot grabber to snap images of the actual bits you want and paste them into a document. Depending upon resolution you might get three or four images to a page.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I've done in the past, but it's the same task every year and I thought I'd try and be a bit clever this year and try to script it.
Not successfully though :-)
(Though actually, even though the Post Office document is a wierd size, I had no problem printing individual pages from Document Viewer to my printer.)
Agreed, although I tend to print all of it (or almost all of it) and having 16 pages each >50% whitespace bugs me enough to try and fix it.
I suspect that extracting the pages as images then using ImageMagick or similar to combine them into larger images (3 or 4 original pages per image), then recombining into a new PDF, would probably be the "simplest" scriptable option.
Thanks all for the tips though. pdftk was new to me and looks like a useful addition to the list of "must haves".