Page dimensions are wrong

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   Hi, 

With some files, the width and height got with PageWidth and PageHeight are wrong. And the ratio between them is also wrong.
Example : 1244 mm x 899 mm instead of 969 mm x 832 mm

Are you aware of this trouble ? How to solve it ?
Thanks for your help.

Louis

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Louis Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 28 May 10 Location: Paris Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote Louis Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Page dimensions are wrong Posted: 06 Aug 10 at 3:37PM
	Hi, With some files, the width and height got with PageWidth and PageHeight are wrong. And the ratio between them is also wrong. Example : 1244 mm x 899 mm instead of 969 mm x 832 mm Are you aware of this trouble ? How to solve it ? Thanks for your help. Louis

Louis Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 28 May 10 Location: Paris Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote Louis Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 Aug 10 at 3:42PM
	I'm sending the file by email...

Louis Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 28 May 10 Location: Paris Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote Louis Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 Aug 10 at 3:43PM
	Sorry, the file is for another topic.

Louis Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 28 May 10 Location: Paris Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote Louis Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 10 Aug 10 at 3:27PM
	Hi, I have found why the dimensions may be wrong, compared to the size we get in Adobe : The QuickPDF dimensions (got with PageHeight and PageWidth) include the margins when the document has been resized. Adobe doesn't. Is there a way to get the margins, or to get the real size of the pages ? Louis

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Aug 10 at 6:20AM
	Hi Louis! Not with QP-functionality. You can save an decrypted file and then looking directly into the source. There you'll find these values. Cheers, Ingo Edited by Ingo - 11 Aug 10 at 6:21AM

Louis Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 28 May 10 Location: Paris Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote Louis Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Aug 10 at 9:36AM
	Could you plan to add this feature (very useful) in QP ?

Louis Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 28 May 10 Location: Paris Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote Louis Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Aug 10 at 1:49PM
	Hi again, How to save to an decrypted file and looking into the source ? My files are not encrypted, so the function DecryptFile returns 0. Louis

Louis Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 28 May 10 Location: Paris Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote Louis Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Aug 10 at 2:19PM
	My last question (decrypted file) is still interesting for me, but I found a simple solution to get the real dimensions of the pages : The GetPageBox function can return the real height or the real width of the selected page. So, that's nice. I'll use this function instead of PageHeight and PageWidth. Louis

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Aug 10 at 2:26PM
	Hi! You can treat the document like normal ascii-code. Read it into a string with "normal" syntax of your IDE and read the content with POS or something similar. Thanks for the PageBox-hint ;-) Cheers, Ingo BTW: This is a user-user-forum - so your feature-request here won't be succesfully ;-)

Louis Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 28 May 10 Location: Paris Status: Offline Points: 19	Post Options Post Reply Quote Louis Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Aug 10 at 2:46PM
	Hi, So, that's a hard job ! Pdf files may be very long and complex !! Anyway, PageBox is more useful. I have a last question about the dmensions : how to resize a page and delete permently the margins or the cropped area ? Louis

Rowan Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 10 Jan 09 Status: Offline Points: 398	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rowan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Aug 10 at 1:20PM
	> I have a last question about the dmensions : how to resize a > page and delete permently the margins or the cropped area ? It's not currently possible to permanently delete the objects that are outside of the cropped area -- however, we're looking at adding support for redacting objects that lay outside a certain area in the future. As a workaround you could crop the document, update the MediaBox using the dimensions retrieved from the CropBox using the GetPageBox function and then render the PDF to an image and then convert it back to a PDF. This would ensure that there was no hidden objects anymore, but then you would have a PDF file without any actual text (just an image of text) and no interactive elements (i.e. form fields, annotations, etc). So it's a bit of a hack, but might work for you in some cases. Cheers, - Rowan.