Page Layout ⇒ How to View Page Dimensions of PDF?

[insipidtoast]

I have an interesting situation. I had to correct a few pages from my book before sending just those pages back to the printer for printing. I used the pdfpages (to include only a few pages from my pdf) option to select just a few pages from the pdf file of my book. The printer wants me to send each corrected page as its own separate pdf document.

The printer said that the corrected pages are a quarter inch smaller than they are supposed to be. I have no idea why, because I am looking at my latex preamble (the one from which I generated the pdf file of my book) and it has the following code:

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  \usepackage[
       noinfo,
       cam,
        width=6.25in,         % the width of the galley
       height=9.25in,        % the height of the galley
       center                % actual page is centered on the galley
     ]{crop}

The pages should all export at the above dimensions because the book is going to be 6x9. After entering the above code the page dimensions will obviously be 6.25x9.25 with quarter-inch crop marks.

So, why does the printer tell me that the corrected pages I sent them (the ones that I extracted from the pdf file of the book) are only 6"x9". I extracted them from a pdf document that was set at 6.25x9.25, so why aren't they the same dimensions?


Also, simpler question: how do I view the page dimensions of a pdf document once I have created it? I need to be able to confirm that I've done things properly so I don't have to keep wasting my time.

[insipidtoast]

Well I think I know the answer to my own question: it's because the parameters of the new document override the parameters of the inserted document.

In this case, I had the page layout set at 6x9 instead of 6.25x9.25.

The printer also just told me that the crop marks were wrong one one side of the page though, but not on the other. Hah I have no idea how that happened.

[mas]

I had to correct a few pages from my book before sending just those pages back to the printer for printing. I used the pdfpages (to include only a few pages from my pdf) option to select just a few pages from the pdf file of my book. The printer wants me to send each corrected page as its own separate pdf document.

Glad that you have found an answer to your problem. I have a suggestion for these kind of situations. Use pdftk. It is the swiss army knife for pdf's.

Your problem could have been solved easily with

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pdftk inputfile.pdf cat p1-p10,p15 output new.pdf

There is no need to create another TeX file just to extract some pages. That way the document settings are not altered.

Regards.

[insipidtoast]

Great suggestion. Thanks!