I recently purchased a printer to go with my new computer, an Epson Stylus NX125, which while nowhere near top of the line, prints quickly, with good quality colour photo and black and white text. I’ve not used it too often but it makes a nice addiction to what I’ve already got in terms of making a really nice home system. The only problem I know of that it might have will be under Linux, and that is the fact that Epson makes no official Linux drivers. I’ve done some research in advance and see that CUPS, what most Linux systems use to print, does support it though, so all is not lost for this Linux geek. However, it’s install CD does come with a bloatload of stuff I know for a fact I will never use. This is important to note because Epson’s software does offer resizing tools which I found out after the fact.
But recently I found a poster that was in A4 paper size and the problem with this comes with the fact that I’m a Canadian, live in Canada, and don’t know anywhere in Canada that sells A4 paper. In fact, our Letter size is 8.5 inches by 11 inches, instead of the A4 size of 8.27 inches by 11.69 inches, for those unaware of the size difference. Sure, it is a minor size adjustment, but when you’re using Letter-sized paper to print an A4 poster, or A4 paper to print out a Letter-sized poster, you will notice cut off spots or that your poster is too small for your paper. In fact, the entire bottom of my poster was cut off due to the A4 size difference that had the information I wished to display. (It’s a game poster, with the bottom with information about the developers, if you must know.)
So with just the drivers installed for my printer, and none of the bloatware installed, I decided to go looking for a simple way to resize my PDF poster. I went looking though the settings and didn’t see any easy way to resize it, so I downloaded JPDF Tweak, a free piece of software that offered to resize my PDF. Not only did it do that, it offered a lot of different features as you can see below.
Encrypting a PDF, Rotate it, Resize it, Bookmarks… this tool does it all it seems!
So, you might be wondering why this tool amazes me so much, especially seeing as Adobe Acrobat or other PDF editors do generally the same thing. The major thing that has me smiling is it’s price tag: free of charge, no matter who you are. And all you need to run it is JRE/Java Runtime Environment, which most people I know of have installed on their computers by default. There is even a portable version that I was using to resize my PDF file before I decided to redownload it for a persistent install. Did I also add that it does batch edits too?
Long story short, it’s a great application sadly unknown by a lot of people. It can do everything to a PDF shy of editing the text, but for the cost we’re paying, it’s worth a look if you need to do a lot of PDF editing very quickly. I’m glad I found it and might be worth adding it to your PDF toolkits in case you run across files that you need to edit as well.
jPDF Tweak 2.5 mb
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