I am trying to use Ghostscript to resize PDF files to letter page size, but on certain files the output is not the correct size. As an example: $wget https://gmarks.org/abrams_anh_pardo.pdf $pdfinfo abrams_anh_pardo.pdf ... Page size: 539 x 737 pts ... $gs -o resized_file.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792 -dBATCH -dSAFER abrams_anh_pardo.pdf $pdfinfo resized_file.pdf ... Page size: 579.224 x 792 pts ... Despite the flags -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612 and -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792, the page size of the output file is 579.224 x 792 pts instead of 612 x 792 pts. (Interestingly, Ghostscript did change the page size, just not to the correct dimensions.) As some printers will refuse to print files that aren't 612 x 792, I'd like to be able to convert such files correctly. How does one do that with Ghostscript? Incidentally, the command $pdfjam --outfile resized_file.pdf --paper letter abrams_anh_pardo.pdf does produce the correct output; however, on certain PDF files, pdfjam yields output files with blank pages, so I'd like to be able to use Ghostscript as an alternative. Best regards, Greg Marks
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