[Pdfedit-support] How do I obtain the bounding box values?

[Eric D. <er...@do...>]

Hi Michal, Jozef and Martin,

For a very long time, I have wanted a program that would automatically 
resize and rescale a PDF page so that it fits on a standard-size sheet 
of paper. After many bad hacks and after receiving a lot of help, I have 
gotten closer to my dream.

The attached script:

    *   determines the page orientation
    *   calculates the optimal page metrics and scale factor and
    *   resizes and rescales the pages.

For most purposes, this script will do what I need it to do -- fit the 
text of an journal article onto a standard size sheet of paper.

But occasionally, I receive a PDF file with enormous white margins. In 
such cases, I want to crop the pages down to the bounding box before 
resizing and rescaling the page.

So I would like to include the bounding box values in my script. I know 
that there is a "getBBox()"  function, but I cannot get it to work.

How do I obtain the bounding box values?

Thanks,
- Eric