From: Roger B. <rfb...@ym...> - 2010-12-05 22:40:03
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Hi! I'm using the "Edit page metrics" dialogue to crop pages. The box says something like: Left upper corner, x position Left upper corner, y position Right bottom corner, x position Right bottom corner, y position This, together with the values that are displayed for the current page, implies that the origin of the co-ordinate system is at the upper left of the page. However, by trial and error I have discovered that it is actually at the BOTTOM left of the page. So the descriptions should be: Left bottom corner, x position Left bottom corner, y position Right upper corner, x position Right upper corner, y position Roger |
From: Michal H. <ms...@gm...> - 2010-12-07 15:09:56
Attachments:
gui-edit_page_matrics-fix-coord-desc.patch
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On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 05:40:30PM -0500, Roger Burrows wrote: > Hi! Hi, > I'm using the "Edit page metrics" dialogue to crop pages. The box says > something like: > Left upper corner, x position > Left upper corner, y position > Right bottom corner, x position > Right bottom corner, y position > This, together with the values that are displayed for the current page, implies > that the origin of the co-ordinate system is at the upper left of the page. > > However, by trial and error I have discovered that it is actually at the BOTTOM > left of the page. So the descriptions should be: > Left bottom corner, x position > Left bottom corner, y position > Right upper corner, x position > Right upper corner, y position Yes, you are right. I can see the same issue on many of my documents (I wasn't able to find any which would have the base of coord system at top left corner). The attached patch fixes this but please note that this might be not correct as the coord system depends also on rotation and other things. I will post the patch to our devel mailing list. Let's see what other guys say. You can apply the patch in two ways. Either you apply it in the source tree and then run make install or apply it directly to the installed file (which is in $PREFIX/share/pdfedit/ directory - where PREFIX is /usr/local/ by default). > > Roger Thanks -- Michal Hocko |
From: Michal H. <ms...@gm...> - 2011-01-20 17:12:22
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 04:09:45PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 05:40:30PM -0500, Roger Burrows wrote: > > Hi! > > Hi, > > > I'm using the "Edit page metrics" dialogue to crop pages. The box says > > something like: > > Left upper corner, x position > > Left upper corner, y position > > Right bottom corner, x position > > Right bottom corner, y position > > This, together with the values that are displayed for the current page, implies > > that the origin of the co-ordinate system is at the upper left of the page. > > > > However, by trial and error I have discovered that it is actually at the BOTTOM > > left of the page. So the descriptions should be: > > Left bottom corner, x position > > Left bottom corner, y position > > Right upper corner, x position > > Right upper corner, y position > > Yes, you are right. I can see the same issue on many of my documents (I > wasn't able to find any which would have the base of coord system at top > left corner). > > The attached patch fixes this but please note that this might be not > correct as the coord system depends also on rotation and other things. I > will post the patch to our devel mailing list. Let's see what other guys > say. The attached patch is not 100% correct. If there is a rotation for the page then the text is misleading again. Have a look at bt#367 (http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/view.php?id=367) -- Michal Hocko |