What is the first page to a pdf fie is the face to a person. The first page is crucial and important to a pdf file; you surely would like to make it more attractive in both content and format. You can center the content, because it accord with people’s reading habit and specify the first page at the same time. To help you finish the edit quickly and timely, the VeryPDF.com offers you Advanced PDF Tools Command Line.
First step—Downloading
Follow this link you will obtain Advanced PDF Tools
https://www.verypdf.com/pdfinfoeditor/advanced_pdf_tools_cmd.zip
The whole package is just of 3.04 MB, making the download swiftly, do remember to extract it, for it is a zipped package.
Second step—Launching
You are bound to launch MS-DOS command prompt window. Because the command line is bound to be operated under the MS-DOS environment. The procedure is easy, and the following pictures will guide you.
1) click “start” and then go to “Run”
2) input cmd into the following
3) press “ok”, you will find MS-DOS command prompt window popping up
Third step—Inputting
Input the command to center pdf content of the first page
it goes below
pdftools.exe -i “C:\input.pdf” -o “C:\output.pdf” -j “50% 50% true” –u “1”
where
- -i is to specify a pdf filename or a directory for input,
- -o to specify the pdf file name for output,
- -j “50% 50% true”, the first parameter means to set page content to 50% of the page width and the second parameter to 50% of the page height, and the third parameter is a Boolean type value to set whether to center on page,
- -u “1”:“-u” to specify pages, “1” refers to the first page.
when the input is done, press “enter” key, you will see
Fourth step—Checking
It’s time for opening the file to check the result, screenshots again
a zoomed one
So far, you have successfully centered the pdf content of the first page.