How to set the physical size of PDF pages with Ghostscript?

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

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

I would like to force gs to create the PDF in letter size, 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.

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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-dEPSFitPage and -dEPSCrop are mutually exclusive. Try getting rid of the -dEPSCrop and putting back -sPAPERSIZE=legal. If that doesn't work, it is probably because the .eps file is over-riding the media, so try adding -dFIXEDMEDIA.

BTW, this answer is cribbed from: Fit to page size in ghostscript (with a possibly corrupt input)

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Jan 30 '13 at 02:20

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I tried to replace -dEPSCrop with -sPAPERSIZE=legal but same thing. doing identify -verbose out.pdf I see: Print size: 23.6111x30.5556 – Tickon Jan 30 '13 at 02:29
Adding -dFIXEDMEDIA I only see the bottom left corner on the page. – Tickon Jan 30 '13 at 02:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 18 '14 at 11:02

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The problem was -dEPSFitPage it was fitting the page size to the .eps file size... using -dPDFFitPage (and skipping the mutually exclusive -dEPSCrop) solved my problem.

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

edited Nov 18 '14 at 11:02

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answered Jan 30 '13 at 02:56

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How to set the physical size of PDF pages with Ghostscript?

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