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Re: [Swftools-common] PdfInfo and Landscape
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Matthias Kramm |
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Re: [Swftools-common] PdfInfo and Landscape |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Dec 2004 08:15:46 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.6i |
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:43:01PM -0500, Mike McKinnon wrote:
> When running pdfInfo on landscape pdf's the bounding box sizes come up with
> x and y reversed.
>
> ie: Document is x1:0 y1:0 x2:612 y2:792 <- Dimensions of a 8x10 (letter
> page) in Portrait orientation
>
> Pdfinfo always shows this even when a doc is in landscape view. x2 and y2
> should be reversed. Now I dont
> think necessarily that this is a problem with pdfinfo, because in fact the
> dimensions ARE correct. I was just
> wondering if perhaps Adobe keeps some orientation information in their PDF
> header that perhaps I could find,
> so I know wether to switch my coordinates appropriately
AFAIK, there's a "page matrix", which also transforms the bounding box.
(E.g. rotates it by 90 degrees)
Probably Derek (the xpdf and pdfinfo author) knows more about this.
Greetings
Matthias