{"id":286,"date":"2013-06-10T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=286"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:18:39","slug":"crop-pdf-print-split-merge-my-latexpdf-tool-set-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Crop PDF (print, split, merge) &#8211; my Latex\/PDF tool set on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was <strong>constrained to Windows<\/strong> for a couple of months I had to <strong>find equivalent software to OS X Preview<\/strong> which handles <strong>coping, splitting&nbsp;and merging PDFs <\/strong>(among other formats). Maybe it&#8217;s not the best PDF for OS X but it handles smoothly the three operations I often need.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why I need to crop PDFs?<\/strong> When writing LaTex documents, tables are a nuisance. <strong>The easiest way to make tables is to make them in Calc\/Excel, export them as PDF and include them in the LaTex document<\/strong>. <a href=\"index.php?\/archives\/282-LaTeX-insert-a-PDF-table-as-an-image-in-a-table-environment.html\">I wrote about how to do it here<\/a>. It is possible to include the whole PDF and crop it in LaTex but I prefer to see the visual result. So I needed to crop my PDFs. I found these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/briss\/\">Briss<\/a> &#8211; a cross-platform PDF cropper <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfscissors.com\/\">PDF scissors<\/a>: a web based open source PDF cropper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/header.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n<ul> <\/ul>\n<p>I know it is possible to export PDFs directly from Calc\/Excel, but I like to have a bit more options. For example <strong>I might have more sheets but want to save only a selection to a PDF <\/strong>(like printing only a selection of a spreadsheet). The old PDFCreator I used over a decade ago still exists and came in handy <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pdfcreator\/\">PDF Creator<\/a> &#8211; a printer that prints whatever to a PDF (or other formats)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you already have a multipage PDF and need to split it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfsam.org\/\">PDFsam<\/a> &#8211; a cross platform PDF split and merge tool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I use TexMaker for writing in LaTeX. It has an in-built embedded PDF viewer but since my Lenovo X61s only supports 1024&#215;768 resolution I needed a different <strong>application for viewing PDFs<\/strong>. A viewer needs to <strong>update PDFs whenever I recompile the LaTex document<\/strong> (Adobe Reader fails at this :\/). <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kowalczyk.info\/software\/sumatrapdf\/free-pdf-reader.html\">Sumatra PDF<\/a> &#8211; a lightweight Windows PDF viewer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I mentioned many of these tools already in <a href=\"index.php?\/archives\/154-A-list-of-open-source-PDF-applications.html\">a list of open source PDF applications<\/a> but wanted to present how I used them for writing and viewing LatTeX documents.<\/p>\n<ul> <\/ul>\n<ul> <\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was constrained to Windows for a couple of months I had to find equivalent software to OS X Preview which handles coping, splitting&nbsp;and merging PDFs (among other formats). Maybe it&#8217;s not the best PDF for OS X but it handles smoothly the three operations I often need. 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