[pdftex] Cropping bottom margin off one-page documents.

[jackos]

jackos wrote:

> Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 08:38:28AM +0000, Michael Chapman wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have several thousand one-page pdf-documents that I wish to trim 
>>> the white space off the bottom of.
>>> Using 'pdfcrop' (and re-creating the top, left and right margins 
>>> using the "--margins" flag in 'pdfcrop') gives the required layout.
> 
> 
> What about converting each single-page document into XObject via 
> \pdfximage primitive? In such a case, specified pdf page box is 
> sibstituted by BBox of resulting XObject (image), and positioned on the 
> output page in any way you want. AFAIK there is
> 
> \pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpageboxes

Sorry, the parameter is

\pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpagebox % pdfTeX 1.11

However, it might be convenient to use

\pdfximage <box spec> {<filespec>}

construction instead.

Pawel