Question

I have around 100 PDF files (each 1-3 pages long) that are formatted strangely, and I need to fix them. The problem is that there’s a ton of white space at the top of almost all of them. I have Acrobat X Pro.

For example: http://imageshack.us/a/img195/510/ex1w.png
Download example: http://www.sendspace.com/file/2hohj5

I’ve tried selecting the text with the “Move or make changes to objects tool” and shifting it up, but there’s a white box in the way that covers the text. If I delete the box, there’s more text under it that I can’t have.

I’m very confused. If this question isn’t making sense please download the pdf and try for yourself.

Another example (across multiple pages this time): http://imageshack.us/a/img337/3714/ex2v.png
Download example: http://www.sendspace.com/file/q7dmnl

Answer 1

You can use Ghostscript to cut off content from pages and reduce the page height. Try this:

gs                  \
  -o out.pdf        \
  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
  -g6120x5000       \
   2hohj5.pdf

Result of 1st page cropped (as PNG, scaled down):

Alternatively, you can use Ghostscript to shift the contents of each page up by, say 3 inches ( == 216 points) without changing the page sizes:

gs                                                  \
  -o out2.pdf                                       \
  -sDEVICE=pdfwrite                                 \
  -c "<</Install {0 216 translate}>> setpagedevice" \
  -f 2hohj5.pdf

Result of 1st page, content shifted upward by 3 inches (scaled PNG):