Taking 3 inches off the bottom

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   I have a PDF that is legal sized.  I need to make it letter by lopping off the bottom 3 inches.  I've found several threads about using CapturePage and DrawCapturedPage but the problem is that no matter how I adjust the arguments, the result is always the top three inches of the page being removed rather than the bottom 3.

I'm doing something like this:

LoadFromFile
NewPage
CapturePage 2
SetPageSize "Letter"
DrawCapturedPage CapturedPageID, 0,0,PageWidth(),PageHeight()
SaveToFile

No matter what I put in DrawCapturedPage to replace the 0's, the page never moves.  If I omit the SetPageSize, it looks fine, it's just that it's still legal.  I've tried NormalizePage, SetOrigin, and stuff like that but it doesn't change anything.

Is there any way to take 3 inches off the bottom?

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BobW Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 13 Location: Minnesota Status: Offline Points: 64	Post Options Post Reply Quote BobW Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Taking 3 inches off the bottom Posted: 28 Aug 15 at 8:50PM
	I have a PDF that is legal sized. I need to make it letter by lopping off the bottom 3 inches. I've found several threads about using CapturePage and DrawCapturedPage but the problem is that no matter how I adjust the arguments, the result is always the top three inches of the page being removed rather than the bottom 3. I'm doing something like this: LoadFromFile NewPage CapturePage 2 SetPageSize "Letter" DrawCapturedPage CapturedPageID, 0,0,PageWidth(),PageHeight() SaveToFile No matter what I put in DrawCapturedPage to replace the 0's, the page never moves. If I omit the SetPageSize, it looks fine, it's just that it's still legal. I've tried NormalizePage, SetOrigin, and stuff like that but it doesn't change anything. Is there any way to take 3 inches off the bottom?

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 15 at 10:17PM
	Hi Bob, you should read the description about function "SetOrigin": http://www.debenu.com/docs/pdf_library_reference/SetOrigin.php Cheers, Ingo
	Cheers, Ingo

BobW Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 13 Location: Minnesota Status: Offline Points: 64	Post Options Post Reply Quote BobW Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31 Aug 15 at 5:51PM
	I did read the description about that function, and I tried all the possible values for it with no change in the result. I also did a search on DrawCapturedPage in the forum and found this note: http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/resize-a1-and-a0-pages-to-a4_topic3117_post12505.html?KW=drawcapturedpage#12505 which indicates that SetOrigin has no effect on DrawCapturedPage. Is this a bug in DrawCapturedPage or is there some other way to turn a Legal PDF into a Letter PDF by removing the bottom 3 inches?

erico Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 24 Sep 14 Location: Minnesota USA Status: Offline Points: 51	Post Options Post Reply Quote erico Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 Sep 15 at 3:40PM
	I'm pretty sure the SetPageSize is cropping off the text. Drawing a captured page in a smaller area only reduces it -- it does not trim the edges. I would guess you need to look at SetCropBox, or the slightly more generic SetPageBox.
	Eric O

BobW Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 13 Location: Minnesota Status: Offline Points: 64	Post Options Post Reply Quote BobW Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 Dec 15 at 5:32PM
	I finally came up with a solution to this problem: LoadFromFile For ii = 1 to PageCount SelectPage ii RotatePage 180 NormalizePage 0 SetPageSize "Letter" RotatePage 180 NormalizePage 0 next ii SaveToFile I'm not sure that the last NormalizePage is necessary.