GhostScript/GhostView ??

I do have Adobe Acrobat v7.0.9

Is cropping in Adobe file-size efficient?

...Jim Thompson

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Dunno, but I would not crop (out) sensitive material with Word. Chances are very good it's still there in the file somewhere.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I suspect the same is true of Adobe :-(

...Jim Thompson

Which brings up an interesting point: Is there a way to purge all this stuff in MS-Word?

Methinks if you edit everything in MS-Word, then when all the I's are dotted and T's are crossed store it as PDF, shouldn't it all be gone?

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This kind of link doesn't work on my PCs, just opens an email window.

OK, I give up.

John

It depends upon the nature of the edits.

E.g. if you "redact" information by making the background match the foreground (i.e. black text on black background = black box), you'll probably end up with the same information in the PDF.

Similarly, if you crop an imported PS/PDF/etc figure in Word, the PDF may well contain the complete figure, nested inside a clip rectangle.

If you need to be sure that information isn't being hidden, you need to either look at the source (which largely rules out complex binary formats), or convert to a relatively low-level format which doesn't have the ability to retain "hidden" information (e.g. render to a raster image format).

Jim said he was using Word on a windows computer. he has stated quite a few times that the software he needs to run is Windows software, on Windows computers. You were talking about *nix. Two different animals.

Maybe Mac users? I wonder if Office for OS X is a native app or not?

Ironic that Apple of all companies has probably done more to resurrect UNIX lately than even Linux.

Sigh. Then I'll end up in a nursing home some day, having never known how to properly crop with Irfanview. But currently I use Word for that anyway. For really fine stuff a program from Kodak that came with the PC.

Seems like the SBC server is a bit rocky today. It choked for a few minutes a couple of times.

Have a nice day.

Hi Jörg,

Postscript and Word are two separate worlds.

Ctl. + Y dont add any border on my computers. But remember the OP wants to crop postscripts, not bitmaps.

Marte

Irfanview lists postscript as an acceptable input format, although I've never tried it. It may need a plugin.

John

It uses Ghostscript.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Irfanview uses GS for PS. But then it is much better to use GV instead. There you can convert the PS in a editable format of your joyce. In case of vector graphics I prefer vector graphics too, like emf or wmf or dxf or simply ai if you have a DTP that accepts this format.

Marte

Probably not if you capture a print job to a pdf.

Dare I try to sell you on LaTeX? Ah, better not.

robert