I need to print some mathematical articles. But the margin is too large, so I want to edit it to solve this problem. One way is converting it to Microsoft Word (I think). But I tried some programs and they give very bad conversions. How would you solve it? I am sure that some of you encounter this problem regularly.
231k 71 71 gold badges 622 622 silver badges 603 603 bronze badges asked Jul 30, 2011 at 3:38 249 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 3 3 bronze badges Too large for what? Can't you just rescale in the print dialog box? Commented Jul 30, 2011 at 3:42This is a site for mathematics Q&A. I'm not aware of any way to convert .pdf to .doc meaningfully, and if these articles are scans then you're even more screwed.
Commented Jul 30, 2011 at 3:44I took out the conversion part, there sure must be other methods that don't involve conversion to Word.
Commented Jul 30, 2011 at 10:32It’s an old thread, but I just stumbled on the same problem and didn’t want to install anything additional, so I suggest this: (building on what nmat says and the comment of slhck)
If you want to reduce margins, then, in the PDF reader you could print-to-pdf with scaling to 110% and then print the new PDF the way you want on paper (single or both sided or multiple per page). With this solution you can only increase decrease all the margins (top, bottom, right and left) proportionally; i.e., you can not change only one margin.
Edit/Update: I came across Briss, a free (GNU GPL) and quite compact application (Java) you can download from SourceForge (briss-0.9 currently). It can remove the margins of PDFs and save the result. I’ve been using it for few months already.