[Tex/LaTex] pdfcrop fails to run on a file

pdfcroppdftex

I'm trying to remove the huge margins on the following PDF file for two pages per sheet printing:

http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/216blog/FOAGaug1612public.pdf

When I run:

$ pdfcrop FOAGaug1612public.pdf test.pdf

I get the following output:

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdftex.fmt
fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' ...
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2013/dev) (INITEX)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 (/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)
entering extended mode
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/pdfetex.ini
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etex.src
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts,
macros, math definitions, output routines, hyphenation
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex
[skipping from \patterns to end-of-file...]))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etexdefs.lib
Skipping module "grouptypes"; Loading module "interactionmodes";
Skipping module "nodetypes"; Skipping module "iftypes";)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.def
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-pl.tex
QX Polish hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-qx.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-pl.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-ru.tex
T2A Russian hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/ruhyphen.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/catkoi.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/koi2t2a.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/ruhyphal.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/cyryoal.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/hypht2.tex)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-uk.tex
T2A Ukrainian hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ukrhyph/ukrhyph.tex
Ukrainian hyphenation patterns in t2a encoding
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ukrhyph/catlcy.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ukrhyph/lcy2t2a.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ukrhyph/ukrhypmp.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/hypht2.tex)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-ca.tex
EC Catalan hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-ca.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-sk.tex
EC Slovak hyphenation patterns (Jana Chlebikova, 1992)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-sk.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-nl.tex
EC Dutch hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-nl.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-hu.tex
EC Hungarian hyphenation patterns (v20110815)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-hu.tex
Huhyphn - hungarian hyphenation patterns v20110815))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-bg.tex
T2A Bulgarian hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-t2a.
tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-bg.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-rm.tex
ASCII Romansh hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-rm.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-af.tex
EC Afrikaans hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-af.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-tk.tex
EC Turkmen hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-tk.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-tr.tex
EC Turkish hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-tr.tex))
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   \chardef 
<to be read again> 
                   \rhm@arabic 
\addlanguage ...\chardef \csname rhm@#1\endcsname 
                                                  =#5 \uselanguage {#1}\inpu...
l.43 \addlanguage{arabic}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{}

? 
! Emergency stop.
<to be read again> 
                   \chardef 
<to be read again> 
                   \rhm@arabic 
\addlanguage ...\chardef \csname rhm@#1\endcsname 
                                                  =#5 \uselanguage {#1}\inpu...
l.43 \addlanguage{arabic}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{}

!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on pdftex.log.
Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed

###############################################################################
fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
Visit the log files in directory
  /home/efagerho/.texlive2012/texmf-var/web2c
for details.
###############################################################################

This is a summary of all `failed' messages:
`pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed
warning: kpathsea: mktexfmt output `This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2013/dev) (INITEX)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 (/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/cp227.tcx)
entering extended mode
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/pdfetex.ini
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etex.src
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts,
macros, math definitions, output routines, hyphenation
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex
[skipping from \patterns to end-of-file...]))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etexdefs.lib
Skipping module "grouptypes"; Loading module "interactionmodes";
Skipping module "nodetypes"; Skipping module "iftypes";)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.def
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-pl.tex
QX Polish hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-qx.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-pl.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-ru.tex
T2A Russian hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/ruhyphen.tex
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/catkoi.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/koi2t2a.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/ruhyphal.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/cyryoal.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/hypht2.tex)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-uk.tex
T2A Ukrainian hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ukrhyph/ukrhyph.tex
Ukrainian hyphenation patterns in t2a encoding
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ukrhyph/catlcy.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ukrhyph/lcy2t2a.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ukrhyph/ukrhypmp.tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ruhyphen/hypht2.tex)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-ca.tex
EC Catalan hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-ca.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-sk.tex
EC Slovak hyphenation patterns (Jana Chlebikova, 1992)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-sk.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-nl.tex
EC Dutch hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-nl.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-hu.tex
EC Hungarian hyphenation patterns (v20110815)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-hu.tex
Huhyphn - hungarian hyphenation patterns v20110815))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-bg.tex
T2A Bulgarian hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-t2a.
tex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-bg.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-rm.tex
ASCII Romansh hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-rm.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-af.tex
EC Afrikaans hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-af.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-tk.tex
EC Turkmen hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-tk.tex))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-tr.tex
EC Turkish hyphenation patterns
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t
ex)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-tr.tex))
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again> 
                   \chardef 
<to be read again> 
                   \rhm@arabic 
\addlanguage ...\chardef \csname rhm@#1\endcsname 
                                                  =#5 \uselanguage {#1}\inpu...
l.43 \addlanguage{arabic}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{}

? 
! Emergency stop.
<to be read again> 
                   \chardef 
<to be read again> 
                   \rhm@arabic 
\addlanguage ...\chardef \csname rhm@#1\endcsname 
                                                  =#5 \uselanguage {#1}\inpu...
l.43 \addlanguage{arabic}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{}

!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on pdftex.log.' instead of a filename.
!!! Error: pdfTeX run failed!

Best Answer

The error messages show, that the format generation for plain pdfTeX failed. Try

fmtutil --byfmt pdftex

If it succeeds, then you can try pdfcrop again. Otherwise, try updating the TeX distribution, perhaps the error is already fixed.

pdfcrop can also be used without format:

$ pdfcrop --ini FOAGaug1612public.pdf test.pdf

The file FOAGaug1612public.pdf contains pages without contents that cause some warnings and the xref table is not correct for some entries. And the file was generated by LaTeX with lots of overfull \hboxes. Apart from this you should get a cropped test.pdf.

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I would do it another way around: (This might actually solve some other issues of you)

Place the whole thing in a savebox in the preamble. (You have to manually enable the normal font use \normalfont for this AFAIK.) Then you can measure the dimensions of the box and set the page dimensions accordantly. This will give you a PDF or PS which already has to correct size. For larger content I recommend to use a minipage wrapper as usual.

The \pagecolor command still works here. I would have thought you manually need to place a colored rectangle (\rule) with the same size behind the content.

The following works for me using pdflatex (PDF), latex->dvips¹ (PS), latex->dvips¹->ps2pdf (PDF), xelatex and lualatex and produces a correctly sized file.

¹ without any options, no -E required

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[cmyk]{xcolor}
\pagecolor{cyan}
\pagestyle{empty}
\parindent=0bp

\begin{lrbox}{0}%
    \normalfont
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\end{lrbox}

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\usepackage[noheadfoot,nomarginpar,margin=0pt,paperwidth=\wd0,paperheight=\ht0]{geometry}

\begin{document}
\box0
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Result

[Tex/LaTex] Using hyph-utf8 with plain TeX

Since you have TeX Live (on a Unix system, I guess), you should have the language available: a UTF-8 encoded file

\uselanguage{croatian}
\font\tenrm="Latin Modern Roman/S=10;mapping=tex-text"

\tenrm\hsize=1pt

\hskip0pt Republika Hrvatska Položajem

\bye

processed with xetex should show hyphenation as Re-pu-bli-ka Hr-vat-ska Po-lo-ža-jem.

Are you sure to have installed the support files for Croatian, that is, the Debian package texlive-lang-croatian?

Note that using plain TeX with pdftex won't give correct results, unless the default fonts are changed and some catcode trickery is performed or encTeX is used.

You need to prepare your format with

pdftex -ini -enc -etex -pdf "\def\enc{u}\input F.tex"

where F.tex is

\input csfonts  % re-defines primitive \font

\let\keptdump\dump \let\dump\relax
\input pdfetex.ini

\restorefont    % original meaning of primitive \font
\input il2code  % extra codes for czech / slovak letters in ISO-8859-2 encoding
\input plaina4  % \hsize and \vsize for A4
\everyjob=\expandafter{\the\everyjob
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\ifnum\pdfoutput=0
  \message {jobname=csplain with pdftex, DVI output initialised.}
  \pdfoutput=0
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\else
  \message {jobname=pdfcsplain, PDF output initialised.}
    \openin0=pdftexconfig.tex
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    \else \closein0 \input pdftexconfig.tex
    \fi
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\fi

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\dump

Here I assume that your modifications to csfonts.tex and csenc-u.tex are consistent with your purposes.

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