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Title: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: zanshin777 on July 11, 2020, 09:31:38 PM
1) There is a red lined square on the file LVL2.

As you see this part got bigger on the file LVL3.

How can I do that on a PDF?

2) I also cropped and saved those red lined squares as JPEG files.

How can I import those and make a pdf like I want and put page numbers?

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Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: RodneyLee on July 12, 2020, 03:12:29 PM
Are you asking how to Draw a RED Square, increase margins and add automatic page numbering?
Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: Nermander on July 12, 2020, 03:44:11 PM
I think the question is about impositioning, i.e. cropping and scaling a PDF.

Most impositioning tools can manage that, I would suggest jPDFtweak.

http://jpdftweak.sourceforge.net/

Though I am not sure if it can add the page numbers...

If you want a more manual approach you could of course split the PDF into one cropped PDF per page, and import those pages manually into image frames in Scribus.

Or write a script for it.
Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: zanshin777 on July 12, 2020, 06:14:55 PM
My question is about scaling.

Can I scale the pdf with Scribus or any software you suggest?

(So I don't want to deal with that cropping, converting, pasting one by one.)
Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: Nermander on July 12, 2020, 08:42:44 PM

I repeat:

Quote from: Nermander on July 12, 2020, 03:44:11 PM
Most impositioning tools can manage that, I would suggest jPDFtweak.

http://jpdftweak.sourceforge.net/
Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: zanshin777 on July 12, 2020, 08:57:41 PM
I loaded pdf file into the software you suggested.

Now how to do what I want?
Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: RodneyLee on July 13, 2020, 03:03:43 PM
this could be a job for GIMP, open .pdf in GIMP, Crop/Enlarge/draw red box/save
Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: zanshin777 on July 13, 2020, 09:17:59 PM
Where is GIMP on jPDF Tweak Software?

I couldn't find that?
Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: RodneyLee on July 14, 2020, 02:20:17 PM
try gimp.org
Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: zanshin777 on July 14, 2020, 06:29:59 PM
What should I do on this software?
Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: dragonfly on July 14, 2020, 09:54:50 PM
Quote from: zanshin777 on July 14, 2020, 06:29:59 PM
What should I do on this software?

Please learn basic google search methods ..
https://www.google.com/search?q=gimp+reduce+margins&oq=gimp+reduce+margins&aqs=chrome..69i57.8607j0j7&client=ubuntu&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8



Title: Re: How To Increase PDF Font Size By Making The Margins Smaller
Post by: Nermander on July 18, 2020, 02:40:39 PM
Quote from: zanshin777 on July 12, 2020, 08:57:41 PM
I loaded pdf file into the software you suggested.

Now how to do what I want?

Tell the software to do what you want. I did not say it was trivial.

Did you read the manual?

http://jpdftweak.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html

It is probably the Shuffle/N-up tab that you want to use. Load one of the presets first to try to understand how it works.


Here is a more complex example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17319006/automatically-imposing-4-pdf-pages-into-a4-sheet-following-custom-order




I would not recommend using GIMP for this, because GIMP will rasterize the pages.