[texhax] compile to a small PDF

[Steve Schwartz]

On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:58 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
> \usepackage{preview} and have a look at previewlatex.

This looks to be the obvious pure latex solution, though others have
suggested the generic idea of changing the pagesize by measuring the
typeset box.

Personally, I use pdfcrop to post-process the pdf file. It does an
excellent job of cropping pdf files with options to add/subtract margins
and do other things.

You might find pdfcrop amongst your tex goodies somewhere, else find it
at ctan. The README says that it probably doesn't work in windows.

Steve

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