$ convert in.png out.pdf
ImageMagick can do much, much more than conversions. Today I learned the following trick from an
e-mail list discussion:
$ convert -trim img.pdf
which trims all the white space from around an image. It's a great trick for inserting Matlab plots into papers! I used to do this by hand with an image editing program like the GIMP; it's great to know that I don't have to fire up such a massive tool in order to accomplish this simple task. (The GIMP is a wonderful program, incidentally, but starting it up just to crop some white space is a task beneath its mighty powers.)
4 comments:
I just had occasion to use it. That works great!
*grins* I feel useful :-D
hurruh, just what I was looking for. Thanks very much!
sweet!
Didnt need it, but used it anyhow.
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