BRISS HowTo

Typical work flow

1. Load a PDF by clicking File->Load and choose the pdf to which should be cropped.(Optional: Set the pages to exclude from merging)
2. Now the PDF is loaded and you are shown the merged pages. A page is merged to a cluster if it has the same size and is either even or odd.
3. Draw multiple crop rectangle by clicking+holding the left mouse button down. The content of each crop rectangle will be transformed into a distinct page in the output PDF.
4. Start the cropping by Action->Crop. Next chose the output file name and press "Ok"

Preview

• If you just want to check if your rectangle selection is appropriate you can press Action->Preview. This will generate a temporary cropped PDF.

Handle crop rectangles

• If you want to delete a crop rectangle move the mouse pointer into the rectangle and press the right mouse button.
• You can move crop rectangles around by clicking and holding the left mousebutton in a crop rectangle!

Resize crop rectangles to maxium width/height

Sometimes it's necessary to make crops rectangles between merged clusters the same width/height. Therefore just

1. Select the crop rectangles by holding down the ctrl-key and press into the crop rectangle.
2. After you've selected all desired crop rectangles press either Action->Maximize Width or Action->Maximize Height