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I'm afraid this may be an elementary level problem, but I'd appreciate advice.
I am trying to resize a book from page size 135 x 215mm to 129 x 198mm. I can do this by printing to a postscript file, specifying the paper size as 129 x 198, and checking scale to fit. Then I distill to a pdf. This gives me an acceptable looking page. However, for the purposes of printing, I wish to include crop marks. When I specify crop marks when saving the postscript file, I get them in the eventual pdf, but within the page size of 129 x 198, and the actual page itself is reduced to about 83% of what it should be! It doesn't help that mathematics is not my strong point. Is there any way (there must be) that I can save the postscript file so that I can include crop marks and when the printer trims the page it is at the correct size of 129 x 198mm?
Any help appreciated, thanks.
Tom.

Very many thanks, Peter -- this script is magic and has completely solved the problem. Being able to select the options of scale to fit, keep proportions 100% and centre on the page in the new file takes the uncertainty out of the import. Thanks too to Luke for setting me off in the right direction. I'm going to be using this method with a lot of our reprints which are going into a slightly different format.
Tom.

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