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@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Specifies the height of crop area in pixels (image output) or points (vector out
Specifies the size of crop square in pixels (image output) or points (vector output) (sets \-W and \-H)
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.B \-cropbox
-Uses the crop box rather than media box when generating the files
+Uses the crop box rather than media box when generating the files (PNG/JPEG/TIFF only)
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.B \-mono
Generate a monochrome file (PNG and TIFF only).
@@ -169,32 +169,24 @@ Generate Level 3 PostScript (PS only). This enables all Level 2 features plus
shading patterns and masked images. This is the default setting.
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.B \-origpagesizes
-Generate a file with variable page sizes and orientations (PS and PDF
-only). The size of each page will be the original page in the PDF
-file. If the output is PS the file will contain %%DocumentMedia and
-%%PageMedia DSC comments specifying the size of each page. Any
-specification of the page size via \-paper, \-paperw, or \-paperh will
-get overridden as long as each page of the PDF file has a defined
-paper size.
+This option is the same as "\-paper match".
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.BI \-paper " size"
Set the paper size to one of "letter", "legal", "A4", or "A3"
(PS,PDF,SVG only). This can also be set to "match", which will set
-the paper size to match the size specified in the PDF
-file. \-origpagesizes overrides this setting if the PDF file has
-defined page sizes.
+the paper size of each page to match the size specified in the PDF
+file. If none the \-paper, \-paperw, or \-paperh options are
+specified the default is to match the paper size.
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.BI \-paperw " size"
-Set the paper width, in points (PS,PDF,SVG only). \-origpagesizes overrides this setting
-if the PDF file has defined page sizes.
+Set the paper width, in points (PS,PDF,SVG only).
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.BI \-paperh " size"
-Set the paper height, in points (PS,PDF,SVG only). \-origpagesizes overrides this setting
-if the PDF file has defined page sizes.
+Set the paper height, in points (PS,PDF,SVG only).
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.B \-nocrop
-By default, output is cropped to the CropBox specified in the PDF
-file. This option disables cropping.
+By default, printing output is cropped to the CropBox specified in the PDF
+file. This option disables cropping (PS,PDF,SVG only).
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.B \-expand
Expand PDF pages smaller than the paper to fill the paper (PS,PDF,SVG only). By