"scale" pdf or eps figures

[kai12]

Hi all,

I need to scale a pdf figure, i.e. I need the pdf to report itself to be a different
size than it does right now. The figure in the pdf is scalable, so it doesn't really
need to be changed, but if I check the meta information in the pdf, e.g. using
acrobat reader or the pdfinfo tool, it says

Title:          R Graphics Output
Creator:        R
Producer:       R 2.8.1
CreationDate:   Fri Jan 29 17:31:18 2010
ModDate:        Fri Jan 29 17:31:18 2010
Tagged:         no
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      432 x 432 pts
File size:      12502 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4

I need that "Page size" info to be something different.

I know there's a command line tool to do it, I have done it before, but I have
just spend two hours trying to recall and I can't seem to.

Anybody here who can help me out?
kai


OK, I'm back, this solution works perfectly for me:
a comment in this blog suggests to use Multivalent

Example:

java -cp Multivalent.jar tool.pdf.Impose -dim 1x1 -paper "8.5x11in" myFile.pdf

[lbharti]

you could have also used image-magick convert which has a many functionalities for various purposes.

[kai12]

Hi lbharti, thanks for the hint!

I did try image magick - wonderful set of tools! - and it does convert and resize pdf to pdf, but whatever I tried, image magick would turn my scalable figures into bitmaps, and keeping scalable content was my top priority.

cheers, kai