BRISS HowTo
Typical work flow
- Load a PDF by clicking File->Load
and choose the pdf to which should be cropped.(Optional: Set
the pages to exclude from merging)
- Now the PDF is loaded and you are shown the merged pages. A
page is merged to a cluster if it has the same size and is either even
or odd.
- Draw multiple crop rectangle by clicking+holding the left
mouse button down. The content of each crop rectangle will be
transformed into a distinct page in the output PDF.
- Start the cropping by Action->Crop.
Next chose the output file name and press "Ok"
Preview
- If you just want to check if your rectangle selection is
appropriate you can press Action->Preview.
This will generate a temporary cropped PDF.
Handle crop rectangles
- If you want to delete a crop rectangle move the mouse
pointer into the rectangle, press the right mouse button and click
"Delete rectangle"
- You can move crop rectangles around by clicking and
holding the left mousebutton in a crop rectangle!
- You can copy and paste a rectangle between different page
clusters. Therefore you must select some crop rectangles. Afterwards
press ctrl+c, then click into the page cluster where you want to paste
the selected crop rectangles and paste them by pressing ctrl+v.
- Various other self describing actions are available through the Action- menu.
Command line usage
If you prefer command line and trust the basic automatic detection
algorithm use it this way (can be batched!):
java -jar briss-0.0.13.jar -s [SOURCEFILE] [-d [DESTINATIONFILE]]
Example:
java -jar briss-0.0.13.jar -s dogeatdog.pdf -d dogcrop.pdf
java -jar briss-0.0.13.jar -s dogeatdog.pdf
the second line will crop the file into
dogeatdog_cropped.pdf