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1. PDF Notes

1.1. Improving 2-up Printing

pdfcrop can be used to trim margins from PDFs. This is handy because the trimmed PDF can be printed 2-up and have larger text than normal. Usually, printing 2-up creates a lot of whitespace due to having both the margins from the original pages and then the margins added to the new page.

On Fedora 9, pdfcrop is in the texlive-utils package. On Ubuntu 8.04, it's in the texlive-extra-utils package.

1.2. Optimizing for Web Viewing

The pdfopt utility can be used to optimize PDFs for viewing over the network.

On Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04, pdfopt is in the ghostscript package.