From kde-core-devel  Sat Dec 02 14:45:57 2006
From: Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle () gmx ! net>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:45:57 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Okular moving
Message-Id: <200612021542.07336.k1pfeifle () gmx ! net>
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On Saturday 02 December 2006 14:01, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Sam Dez 2 2006 schrieb Kurt Pfeifle:
> > > One more functionality that I would have needed  twice: Change the page
> > > size of some pages. In particular, I had a PDF that was used for printing
> > > a journal, so it had those additional margins. Now, to print them on our
> > > laser printer (and to make them available for download from our
> > > homepage), I needed to cut away those margins.
> >
> > I don't fully understand what you mean.
> >
> > However, the (probably similar) requirement to print a Letter-sized
> > PDF document to A4 paper occurs quite frequently for many users who
> > handle US (business or academic) documents in Europe (and vice versa).
> 
> No, I have a PDF that is used for offset printing and thus has the margins 
> that will later be cut away. In particular, it's an A5 journal, but the PDF 
> is in A4.
> If you print that document on a laser printer, you'll also get those margins, 
> which are simply wasted space. You can't print that document as a brochure in 
> KDE unless you manage to cut away the margins before printing.
> 
> Attached is one page from such a document to make it clear what I mean.

Now I understand.

What you'd need is a "crop" functionality.

Cheers,
Kurt