On Sun, 15 Sep 2024, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>
>
> > On 15 Sep 2024, at 16:56, Alan Caruanambo <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hello, basically my question is to know if there is a way to use ConTeXt to
> > perform the functions that pdfcrop does.
> >
> > pdfcrop: A Perl script that can either trim pages of any whitespace border,
> > or trim them of a fixed border
>
> The \clip command works on a PDF file.
>
> <https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/clip>
>
> But you need to give it exact measurements.
There is an old perl script `pdftrimwhite` which will do the calculations for
you.
mtxrun --script pdftrimwhite
I hadn't used it for a while and I tried it and it fails because it is still
calling context using texexec:
sub RunTeX
{ if ($UsePlain)
{ $result = `pdftex -prog=pdftex -fmt=plain -int=batchmode $tempfile` }
else
{ $result = `texexec --batch --once --purge $tempfile` }
print $result if $Verbose ; $results .= "$result\n" }
I suspect that changing `texexec` to `context` should make it work with the
current installation as well.
Aditya
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