Cut

• Custom cut pages horizontally or vertically in any way you want.

• This is the low level alternative to poster and ndown

• The result is packaged into a PDF file in outDir for each selected page containing an outline view followed by pages representing cut tiles.

• Have a look at some examples.

Usage

pdfcpu cut [-p(ages) selectedPages] -- description inFile outDir [outFileName]

Flags

name	description	required
p(ages)	selected pages	no

Common Flags

name	description	values
v(erbose)	turn on logging
vv	verbose logging
q(uiet)	quiet mode
u(nit)	display unit	po(ints),in(ches),cm,mm
c(onf)	config dir	$path, disable
upw	user password
opw	owner password

Arguments

name	description	required
description	configuration string	yes
inFile	PDF input file	yes
outDir	output directory	yes
outFileName	PDF output file name	no

Description

A configuration string to specify the cutlines.

parameter	description	values
horizontal	horizontal page cuts at height fraction (origin top left corner)	eg: .25
vertical	vertical page cuts at width fraction (origin top left corner)	eg: .25 .5
margin	margin / glue area in display units	>= 0.0
bgcolor	margin / glue area color value	color
border	draw content region border along set margin	on/off, true/false, t/f

Examples

Apply a horizontal page cut at 0.25 height.
Results in a PDF containing 3 PDF pages for each processed page:

$ pdfcpu cut -- "hor:.25" test.pdf .
cutting test.pdf into ./ ...
writing test_page_1.pdf

Apply a horizontal page cut at 0.25 height and a vertical page cut at 0.75 width.
Results in a PDF containing 5 pages for each processed page:

$ pdfcpu cut -- "hor:.25, vert:.75" test.pdf .
cutting test.pdf into ./ ...
writing test_page_1.pdf

The following has the same effect as: pdfcpu ndown 3 in.pdf outDir:

$ pdfcpu cut -- "hor:.33 .66" inFile outDir

The following has the same effect as: pdfcpu ndown 4 in.pdf outDir:

$ pdfcpu cut -- "hor:.5, ver:.5" inFile outDir