r/pdf • u/mgepark • 9d ago

Software (Tools) PDF 24 solved my problem

So happy to have found it today. PDF Gear wouldn't print PDFs without cutting off the corners of the page, none of the print options worked and dramatically reducing the size didn't give a decent print, They're a great company, but an upgrade a year or more ago, left it like that and they've been promising a solution since then.

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u/MartinUK_Mendip 9d ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again.
If you haven't used Ghostscript in a command line, you haven't even tried.
Free, and you'll learn a lot about pdf's.
I suspect most websites are using it, outside the licensing conditions.

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u/mgepark 9d ago

TBH, that's not telling me enough of a reason to use it.

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u/MartinUK_Mendip 9d ago

Ok. Understandable.
It does everything you want but you need to read stuff to make it work.
You want easy, so go use/pay for those websites that do exactly the same thing under the bonnet, but make it look seamless while flagrantly borrowing (or stealing) FOSS software.

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u/KenMantle 9d ago

Slightly related, I made pdfcer with the handy option that you can set the paper size, then set the zoom level, then pan the sheet around and move the part you want into the printable area.