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# 8  
Old 03-18-2010
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Originally Posted by Franklin52
Another one. Check the output first without the coloured part:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

file="/home/bags/Scrivania/0280.u3_capitolo15.pdf"

pdfinfo -box "'""$file""'" |	
awk -v f="$file" '
/MediaBox:/{a=$2; b=$3; c=$4; d=$5}
/TrimBox:/{printf("pdfcrop --margins  %.2f %.2f %.2f %.2f \047%s\047 \047%s\047\n", a-$2, b-$3, c-$4, d-$5, f, f)}
' | sh

K,
Here's the solution :P
Code:
#!/bin/sh
file="/home/bags/Scrivania/0280.u3_capitolo15.pdf"
pdfinfo -box "$file" | awk -v f="$file" '/MediaBox:/{a=$2; b=$3; c=$4; d=$5} /TrimBox:/{printf("pdfcrop --margins \"%.2f %.2f %.2f %.2f\" \047%s\047 \047%s\047\n", a-$2, b-$3, $4-c, $5-d, f, "/tmp/tagliati/"f)}' | sh

Thanks to all.

Giovanni

---------- Post updated at 03:57 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:35 PM ----------

I wrote this that should crop all *.pdf files in /home/bags/Scrivania/

Code:
#!/bin/sh
cd /home/bags/Scrivania/

for file in `ls -r *.pdf`
	do
		echo "$file"
		pdfinfo -box "$file" | awk -v f="$file" '/MediaBox:/{a=$2; b=$3; c=$4; d=$5} /TrimBox:/{printf("pdfcrop --margins \"%.2f %.2f %.2f %.2f\" \047%s\047 \047%s\047\n", a-$2, b-$3, $4-c, $5-d, f, "/tmp/tagliati/"f)}' | sh
		# rm $file
	done

The problem is when a filename cointains blancs Smilie (as example "0020.test tost.pdf")
The "$file" variable takes "0020.test" and then "tost.pdf" Smilie

There's a way to take the complete filename?

Thx,
Giovanni
# 9  
Old 03-18-2010
Code:
for file in *.pdf; do ...
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