Trim margins of the entire document (by command line)
Why don't you use crop
package?!
As David Carlisle said you can also use geometry
package, but I prefer crop
in this case; for more details see the package's manual.
with setting width and height you can achieve your desired margins.
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4,center,noinfo,cross, width=13.5cm,height=22.5cm]{crop}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\section{Section}
\blindtext
\blindtext
\blindtext\footnote{\blindtext}
\end{document}
You can try
\AtBeginDocument{%
\edef\mt{\the\textwidth}%
\edef\mtt{\the\textheight}%
\RequirePackage{geometry}%
\geometry{paperwidth=\dimexpr\mt+1cm\relax,
paperheight=\dimexpr\mtt+1cm\relax,margin=.5cm}
\RequirePackage{xcolor}
\pagecolor[HTML]{E4EDE9}}
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\section{Section}
\blindtext
\blindtext
\blindtext\footnote{\blindtext}
\end{document}
Here I take the baseline article
documentclass (using the pass
option of geometry
) and change the \paperwidth
and \paperheight
by the specified amount and then associated margins (actually \hoffset
and \voffset
) by one half of the page change dimensions.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[pass]{geometry}
\newlength\DX
\DX=3.5in
\paperwidth=\dimexpr\paperwidth-\DX\relax
\hoffset=\dimexpr\hoffset-.5\DX\relax
\newlength\DY
\DY=2.8in
\paperheight=\dimexpr\paperheight-\DY\relax
\voffset=\dimexpr\voffset-.5\DY-.5\footskip\relax
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-10]
\end{document}
Without any changes: