From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GE8pQ-00064l-0g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:12:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7IIAAC4016003; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:10:10 GMT Received: from sysconcept.ca (103.205-206-12-0.interbaun.com [205.206.12.103] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7II6YgC016045 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:06:35 GMT Received: by sysconcept.ca (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 44D392EB75B; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:06:46 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pdf A4 to Letter From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <7573e9640608181016y342e325ak99aa94c67b1ec767@mail.gmail.com> References: <1155916569.9679.13.camel@sysconcept.ca> <7573e9640608181016y342e325ak99aa94c67b1ec767@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:06:46 -0600 Message-Id: <1155924406.9679.35.camel@sysconcept.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 X-Archives-Salt: 7d3b0f6d-9fcf-4085-a885-57091f8d9db0 X-Archives-Hash: d1caae2b3fdb842ee937aecd614f108e On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 10:16 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/18/06, Joseph wrote: > > I have a pdf file in A4 size but need to convert it to Letter. > > What is the fastest way of doing it? > > The simple way is to open it in something that can print to PDF (like > KPDF), and do a print-to-pdf and change the paper size. > > However, this just scales each page to fit. If you want to > re-paginate the PDF, there is no clean way that I know of. You > basically have to do something like pdf2html to get the content out, > and then use something like openoffice/koffice to format it like you > want. > > Maybe others will have a better idea... My problem is the second one, it is a pdf A4 file and I want to print in letter format. I've tried pdf2html but all it does it generate png image (fuzzy image) Though, I had a very good result by opening a PDF file with Gimp and printing it (very clear image). -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list