carnha@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•What CLI apps you use to do common tasks like editing (pdf, audio, video, image) files.English
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1 year agopdfcrop
(commonly included with LaTeX) for cropping margins - it cuts the pdf down to its contents then adds a margin of your choosing, extremely useful for forcing academic papers to have consistent margins,pdfcrop --margins 72 *pdf here*
will create a document with a ~1in margin all around (it uses bp as its units)vips
for resizing/converting images - it’s a bit faster and lighter than imagemagick in my experience, although the main reason I use it instead of imagemagick is just because I like playing around with stuff I haven’t used before :) It has an officially supported python binding too
You may like this pattern of starting all custom commands with a comma - benefits against a wrapper command would be shorter command names and built-in tab completion.