Adding Right Margin to PDF for Writing Notes or Annotations

pdf_add_margin_annotation.sh

#!/bin/sh
## DISCLAIMERS
## 1. This script is not intended to be used as is. It is more like a set of instructions; by no means you are supposed to execute it exactly like this every.single.time.
## 2. Credit for mentioning pdf-crop-margins goes to https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/638371

# go to your desired directory
cd ~/git/pdfcropmargin

# create a venv
python3 -m venv venv

# activate venv
source venv/bin/activate

# install pdfcropmargin
pip install pdfcropmargins

## use it like so
## -p 100 is REQUIRED to maintain original margin for top, left, bottom; while -100 adds 100 margin to the right side. 
## Since it is a margin cropper, negative = add margin.
pdf-crop-margins -o out.pdf -p 100 -a4 0 0 -100 0 in.pdf

## when done, deactivate, maybe.
deactivate

## some other things you can do for setup
echo "$PWD/venv/bin/pdf-crop-margins -o \$1_out.pdf -p 100 -a4 0 0 -100 0 \$1" > script.sh

chmod +x script.sh

echo "alias pdfcropmargin=$PWD/script.sh" >> ~/.zshrc