Re: [Pdfedit-support] Trouble with oversized input PDFs

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

[Please do not top post]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:04:25PM -0500, PMA wrote:
> Here we go:
> 
> Pages
>     3,0
>        Type
>        Kids
>           4,0
>           Type
>           MediaBox
>              0 Int =       0
>              1 Int =       0
>              2 Int =   792
>              3 Int = 1224
>           ...
>           Cropbox
>              0 Int =       0
>              1 Int =       0
>              2 Int =   612
>              3 Int =   792
> 
> Those are the values both before & after I edit.

The problem is that CropBox which defines a visible part of the media
(defined by MediaBox) cuts out the rest. It smells like
http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/view.php?id=290. We have probably set the
CropBox to the default value (A4 paper size) rather than to the MediaBox.
Could you test with the patch from the bugtracker or try 0.4.3 which
already contains the fix.

The patch testing would be much more helpful because you could report
this to the Debian bug tracking system and they will update the patch. 

Anyway I would encourage you to update to 0.4.5-2 (from the current
unstable). There were many fixes since 0.4.1.

> (This what you wanted to know?)

Yes, thanks

> 
> 
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 05:20:16PM -0500, PMA wrote:
> >> Hi Michal.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> If we can feasibly discuss this problem without my posting
> >> my doc, I'd rather, as copyright issues are not yet settled.
> >> I'll restate --
> >>
> >> I have a musical-score PDF specifically created to print on
> >> 11x17 paper.  It needs a few edits that I'd like to do with
> >> PDFedit.  And I've succeeded with those, to this extent:
> >>
> >> 	-- the file opens in PDFedit
> > 
> > What is the PDFedit version you are using?
> > 
> >> 	-- my changes are successful
> >> 	-- I can save the result
> >> 	-- if I re-open that, PDFedit displays it *complete*
> >>
> >> HOWEVER. if I open that saved result with either 'xpdf' or
> >> Adobe (at work, where there's a printer that likes PDFs),
> >> I get only *part* of it -- the upper left portion, ca 8.5x11:
> > 
> > OK, could you check the MediaBox/CropBox before and after you do your
> > editing work? (you can find them in the Object Tree - right side on the
> > application layout - when you navigate through the Pages to the one you
> > are editing up to the Dictionary object).
> > 
> > We are doing some tricks if no MediaBox is defined directly for the page
> > so this sounds like a smoking gun at the moment, but it would definitely
> > be good if you could test it.
> > 

-- 
Michal Hocko