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Topic: Get margin size help

Posted By: BGJ223
Subject: Get margin size help
Date 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

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Posted By: AndrewC
Date 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.