Removing white margins
To reuse the PDF output of your LaTeX document in another document, in an e-book, or on a website, it's usually a good idea to remove the margins, or at least to make them smaller.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you need to have the following things installed:
The PostScript interpreter software—Ghostscript
The programming language—Perl
The
pdfcrop
script
Fortunately, TeX Live installs internal versions of Ghostscript and Perl by default, and offers the pdfcrop
script as a package; so, TeX Live users are lucky. If you don't use TeX Live, you may need to install the software. You can find more information at http://www.ghostscript.com, http://www.perl.org and http://ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop.
How to do it...
The procedure is pretty easy, given that Command Prompt won't be an obstacle for you. We use LaTeX, so this won't be a challenge. Follow these steps for removing the white margins:
Open Command Prompt.
On Linux or Unix, open a shell
On Ubuntu, Linux, and Mac OS X, the shell...