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Authored by: Han Solo on Jul 10, '02 03:11:34PM

In order to save trees and weight, I often want to print duplexed two-up (i.e. four document pages on a single printer page, two per side) versions of downloaded PDF copies of journal articles. These are for my own use, so I am well within the "fair use" provision of copyright law to do so. However, since they are images of print journal pages, they "natively" print with incredibly large margins and small text in my 4-to-1 scheme. A way around this is to "trim" the margins in Acrobat (not Reader, obviously) and print the trimmed version (sometimes at a >100% print scaling). With locked files, one cannot trim the margins. To regain legibility, a trick like the one mentioned here works to create an "unlocked" version that I can trim and then print as above with reasonable margins and text sizes.



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