[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 42291] New: PDF cropping ignored

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42291

             Bug #: 42291
           Summary: PDF cropping ignored
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: pdftohtml
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: sam.halliday at gmail.com


I submitted a bug report against Calibre, and they have passed the buck to
poppler as the upstream source of the bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/881717

I'll repeat the bug report here for convenience:

I have a PDF which I have cropped very tightly using the Briss Java
application. I'm sure you know that cropping a PDF doesn't actually delete the
content outside of the crop - it essentially just hides it when viewers pay
attention to the boundary region.

However, the Calibre ebook-convert application (which uses poppler) seems to
ignore the crop region and this results in MOBI output that contains file
headers and footers - which is very frustrating. The Calibre devs tell me that
poppler first converts the PDF into HTML and this is where the bug lies.

Could you please use the crop information that is contained in the PDF?

Happy to share an offending PDF with you, but I don't want to make it available
at a public URL.

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