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Add a lot of margin to the left and right side of a PDF, because PDF viewers on iOS/iPad won't let you stay zoomed out
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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
# Add a lot of margin to the left and right side of a PDF, because PDF
# viewers on iOS won't let you stay zoomed out & read with smaller fonts.
#
# Requirements: apt-get install texlive-extra-utils
#
# Note: unfortunately, may sometimes reveal printing instructions
# outside of the existing margin.
input=$1
output=$(basename -- "$input" .pdf)_PADDED.pdf
pdfcrop --margin '200 10 200 10' -- "$input" "$output"
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ivan commented Dec 9, 2017

Linked from https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/301051/is-there-an-ipad-pdf-viewer-that-can-stay-zoomed-out

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