Print PDF scaled-down and aligned

Question

I'm currently working on a website containing two folders at root

  .root
     ./backoffice

     ./frontoffice

Those two folders are different but need to be on the same level, so they can be accessed directly from the root of the web site (www.mywebsite.com/backoffice or www.mywebsite.com/frontoffice)

I would like to push them to the same git repository, by doing so

• creating a repository mywebsite
• initiating git in this reposity
• adding the repositories /backoffice and /frontoffice in this repository
• pushing everything to my git repo

The problem is that if I make a clone of this repo, I'll get a folder named mywebsite, which contains the two folders I wanted. And I would like having directly my two folders where I decide to do the git clone, how is this possible please ?

Thanks for caring ;)

Solution

Ok, got it. The key to success is to explicitly specify paper size.

For example, if the original PDF has DIN A4 page size, then

pdfjam --a4paper --scale 0.5 --offset "-7cm 0cm" -- inputfiles

does the trick. I'm not sure why -x with x<10 didn't work before.

Comments

[vinc17]

Negative pdfjam offset works for me. There may be something special about your PDF file or you did something wrong.

[dom0]

very strange, --offset "-5cm 0cm" does nothing, -9.5m 0cm does nothing either, but -10cm 0cm —— BANG 10 cm offset. what the hell? also: the content is then off-page. I think I need to change the paper size or something like that?

[TheBeginner]

What page size is the file? Providing a example file may also help.

[dom0]

The original page size is A4 (din a4) and I also want to print it on A4. So for testing purposes any A4 pdf file will work, really. Or actually any standard-sized pdf, given I want to print pdf with $pagesize out with $pagesize, just transformed like described: scaled down, and aligned to the left.

[dom0]

I believe the offsets not working might have been due to automatic margin-trimming being enabled in my PDF reader (e.g. in Okular View->Trim View->[x] Trim Margins).

[young_souvlaki]

Where did you find documentation on this? I can't find this answer by searching for scaling pdf on linux command line.