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 make them smaller.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need to have installed:

• The PS interpreter software Ghostscript
• The programming language Perl
• The pdfcrop script

Fortunately, TeX Live automatically installs internal versions of Ghostscript and Perl, offering pdfcrop as a package. So, TeX Live users are lucky. You may need to install the software if you don’t use TeX Live. You can find more information at https://www.ghostscript.com, https://www.perl.org, and https://ctan.org/pkg/pdfcrop.

How to do it...

The actual procedure is easy, given that the command line won’t be an obstacle for you, as you use LaTeX. Follow these steps:

1. Go to the command line:
   • On Linux or Unix, open a shell
   • On Ubuntu Linux and macOS, the shell you need to open is called...