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1. Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jun-2022 20:19:48 UTC Tagomago

   Oh... pdfcrop works great, but also removes the metadata table of contents from PDFs.

   Any other tool for cropping PDFs that keeps TOCs? Or maybe one that can export/import TOCs?

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jun-2022 20:24:39 UTC Tagomago

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     Maybe I'll simply use Calibre to convert PDF->ePub->PDF and set the margins to zero.

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jun-2022 08:17:49 UTC Tagomago

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     Calibre was a bit of a mess, so I finally used pdfcrop and pdftk, another great tool.

     Dump the metadata:

     pdftk orig.pdf dump_data output orig.info

     Then pdfcrop the original pdf:

     pdfcrop --margin '0 0 0 0' orig.pdf crop.pdf

     Then get the cropped metadata to maintain the box size:

     pdftk crop.pdf dump_data output crop.info

     Then manually edit the metadata (copy-paste the original bookmarks section).

     Then finally apply that new metadata:

     pdftk crop.pdf update_info crop.info output final.pdf

   • Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jun-2022 08:20:22 UTC Tagomago

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     I should post this kind of notes on a blog for my future self, I guess...

   • aab (aab@khp.ignorelist.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jun-2022 09:01:55 UTC aab

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     • Tagomago
     @tagomago I see you've got it... Have you ever tried LibreOffice Draw for this? I don't know if it messes with metadata, but certainly it helps with manipulation...