66.24 PDF Size Conversions

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The pdfjam command is effective in converting between different page sizes. Here we convert an A4 document to US letter:

pdfjam in.pdf --paper letter --outfile out.pdf

Use pdfinfo to check the page size (amongst other meta data):

pdfinfo in.pdf
...
Page size:      595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)
...
pdfinfo out.pdf
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Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
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