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How do I set the physical size of PDF pages using Ghostscript?

I want to convert a bunch of .eps images to one PDF using Ghostscript.

But when I look at the PDF file in the PDF viewer and set the view to 100%, the physical file size is huge!

I would like to force gs to create a PDF in letter format, but everything I tried failed. Here's the command I'm using:

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dEPSFitPage -dEPSCrop \
   -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf \
    file1.eps file2.eps

All my attempts with -sPAPERSIZE=legal

and -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=w -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=h

had no effect.

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The problem was that -dEPSFitPage

it fit the page size. Eps file size ... using -dPDFFitPage

(and skipping mutually exclusive -dEPSCrop

) solved my problem.



gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=letter \
   -dPDFFitPage -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
   -sOutputFile=out.pdf \
    file1.eps file2.eps
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-dEPSFitPage

and -dEPSCrop

are mutually exclusive. Try to get rid of -dEPSCrop

and return -sPAPERSIZE=legal

. If that doesn't work, it might be because the .eps file is being redirected to the media, so try adding -dFIXEDMEDIA

.



By the way, this answer knocks out: Applies to page size in ghostscript (with possibly corrupted input)

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