I was reading this on the net, (abut 80% down the page), someone suggested to use pdfcrop with --xetex so that the generated pdf is smaller than the default.
When I tried this option, on Linux with TL 2015, I found the cropped pdf file was all blank! Everything in it was deleted.
This is what I typed:
>which pdfcrop
/usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/pdfcrop
>pdfinfo 4.pdf
Creator: TeX
Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.16
CreationDate: Thu Dec 17 23:31:34 2015
ModDate: Thu Dec 17 23:31:34 2015
Tagged: no
Form: none
Pages: 1
Encrypted: no
Page size: 618 x 793 pts
Page rot: 0
File size: 104183 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version: 1.6
>pdfcrop --xetex --margins 5 --clip 4.pdf 4.pdf
PDFCROP 1.38, 2012/11/02 - Copyright (c) 2002-2012 by Heiko Oberdiek.
==> 1 page written on `4.pdf'.
>pdfinfo 4.pdf
Creator: XeTeX output 2015.12.24:1640
Producer: xdvipdfmx (20150315)
CreationDate: Thu Dec 24 16:40:59 2015
Tagged: no
Form: none
Pages: 1
Encrypted: no
Page size: 597 x 772 pts
Page rot: 0
File size: 701 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version: 1.6
The new 4.pdf file is blank, here is before and after:
Here is link to 4_before.pdf before the crop. Here is link to 4_after.pdf after the crop. if someone likes to reproduce this.
Did I do something wrong? Why new pdf file is blank?
if I do not use --xetex then then the new pdf is not blank. (it is not cropped for some reason, and I am still trying to find out why, but at least it is not blank!).
