How to crop PDF margins using pdftk and /MediaBox

Question

I used pdftk to uncompress a PDF and then opened it as a text file.
I want to edit the /MediaBox field, which is in my case

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Answer 1

there are better ways to change the margin of a PDF:

• http://code.google.com/p/sopdf/
• http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
• http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576837-crop-pdf-file-with-pypdf/
• for ghostscript see this page Cropping a PDF using Ghostscript 9.01

hope you found an answer to that since posting :-)