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BGJ223 Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 03 Oct 13 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote BGJ223 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Get margin size help Posted: 03 Oct 13 at 5:22PM
	Hi I am trying to get margin size for several PDF files. Basically I want to know which files have a margin size smaller/larger than 1/4 inch. I am trying to do this in VB script, but I need some help finding the correct function and syntax to make this work. Thanks

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Oct 13 at 9:24AM
	PDF Files technically do not have margins, paragraphs, lines of text. It is build like a jigsaw puzzle where each bit of text is put down onto the page 1 character / line / image etc at a time. One way you might be able to achieve what you want is to load the PDF, render it to a BMP format and then scan the BMP to locate the first row / column that contains a pixel that is not white. Repeat that for all four sides then you might have the margin values you are looking for. Andrew.

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