Bug 45108 - Add support for cropping using mediaBox, cropBox, bleedBox, trimBox, artBox to all pdfto* utils
Summary: Add support for cropping using mediaBox, cropBox, bleedBox, trimBox, artBox t...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: utils (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Mac OS X (All)
: medium enhancement
Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2012-01-22 22:54 UTC by Jorge Hernández Valiñani
Modified: 2018-08-21 10:45 UTC (History)
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Description Jorge Hernández Valiñani 2012-01-22 22:54:58 UTC 
pdftoppm and pdf-cairo has the -cropbox option in order to "use the crop box rather than media box" of a PDF. How about the trimBox?

Right now, in order to get a PDF cropped using the trimBox, one has first to run `pdfinfo -box` on the PDF file, take note of the trimBox size which is in points, and then play with `pdftoppm -x ## -y ## -W ## -H ##`, for example, which are in pixels and hence dependent on the X/Y resolution in DPI being used. Pretty convoluted…
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2012-01-23 11:18:58 UTC 
We are ultra busy with other stuff, it would really help if you could provide the patch yourself (if you know some coding it should be a pretty simple task)
Comment 2 Jorge Hernández Valiñani 2012-01-25 03:54:04 UTC 
I do not have the skills to do that.

A nicer enhancement, actually would be to have support for cropping using any of the boxes (mediaBox, cropBox, bleedBox, trimBox, artBox) with a simple param, across the whole line of pdfto* utils (and so, I changed the title of the report to reflect that).
Comment 3 Jorge Hernández Valiñani 2012-01-25 03:59:51 UTC 
Just so this appears in search results after having changed the title. The request applies to all poppler-utils / xpdf-utils, i.e:

* pdftoppm (already with mediaBox and cropBox support, I believe)
* pdftocairo (already with mediaBox and cropBox support, I believe)
* pdftops
* pdftohtml
* pdftotext
Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-21 10:45:00 UTC 
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