Re: [Pdfedit-support] Cannot edit/set line length

[Keith R. <ke...@ka...>]

Thankyou Martin. Yes what I want to do is make the page 
width narrower, so I can make the text larger without having 
to scroll a page horizontally. I will try what you suggest and 
get back to the list later.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Martin Petricek wrote:

> To: pdf...@li...
> From: Martin Petricek <ma...@pe...>
> Subject: Re: [Pdfedit-support] Cannot edit/set line length
> 
>> Hi everyone. I'm trying to edit a PDF document and make the
>> line width shorter. I want to view the complete page of a
>> document without having to scroll horizontally.
>
> Well, so you are trying to set width of line of text, so actually a page
> width? There is different function for that - Set media box. The function
> you have invoked is supposed to set line width of thing like rectangles,
> graphics, etc ... this sets how thick is the line with which are these
> items drawn.
>
> "Page -> Edit page metrics" in menu (or corresponding button in toolbar)
> will probably do the thing you want. You can alter page size ion the
> dialog, thus making it smaller.
>
>>
>> If I load a PDF document, select a page then try to set the
>> line width, I get the following error:
>>
>> PDFedit 0.3.2
>> ...
>>> setLineWidth()
>> ! In script
>> '/usr/local/pdfedit-0.3.2/share/pdfedit/pdfoperator.qs',
>> line 15:
>> ! TypeError. 'changeableIterator' undefined or not a
>> function
>>> setLineWidth()
>> ! In script
>> '/usr/local/pdfedit-0.3.2/share/pdfedit/pdfoperator.qs',
>> line 15:
>> ! TypeError. 'changeableIterator' undefined or not a
>> function
>
> The error messages are from function isChangeableOp - this one tests
> whether selected operator is changeable, but if its parameter is not an
> operator at all, it spits out funny error messages. We have to change
> that, there is slight bug there related to script callbacks.
>
> Martin Petricek
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