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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><div>> > Using 1.5.0 latest version when I set a page up as<br>> > 6.69 inch x 9.61 plus bleeds of .125 inch on<br>> > three sides the resultant pdf should be 6.815<br>> > inches by 9.94 inches. but when I view the<br>> > resulting pdf in okular I get 6.69 x 9.61 inches.<br>> > The KDE Document Viewer give the same results.<br>> > What is the actual physical size of the pdf?<br><br></div><div>An EPS has only a single BoundingBox but a PDF contains a MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox, TrimBox and ArtBox.</div><div><br></div><div>For a description, see <a href="http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page-boxes" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page-boxes</a></div><div><br></div><div>For an advertisement, ArtBox is the content of the ad; TrimBox is the size that an application like Scribus should use to place the ad; BleedBox is the size that applications like Scribus should clip to; CropBox is the size for proofing the ad for viewers but is not supposed to be used by applications like Scribus; MediaBox is for complete pages including items that will be physically trimmed from the final product like crop marks, registration marks, slugs, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Some viewers like "gv" have an option to let you override the displayed area.</div><div><br></div><div>The poppler package has the capability also, for example, pdftops crops to the CropBox by default but has a -nocrop option to use the MediaBox instead.</div><div><br></div><div>On Linux, you can check the values with pdfinfo in the poppler package with the -box option.</div><div><br></div><div><div>$ pdfinfo -box 20185846-crop.pdf </div><div><br></div><div>Producer: Acrobat Distiller 3.0 for Power Macintosh</div><div><br></div><div>CreationDate: Thu Dec 11 16:40:22 2003</div><div><br></div><div>ModDate: Fri Dec 12 13:09:10 2003</div><div><br></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>Page size: 415.79 x 1009.81 pts</div><div><br></div><div>Page rot: 0</div><div><br></div><div>MediaBox: 0.00 0.00 432.00 1152.00</div><div><br></div><div>CropBox: 7.89 16.19 423.68 1026.00</div><div><br></div><div>BleedBox: 7.89 16.19 423.68 1026.00</div><div><br></div><div>TrimBox: 7.89 16.19 423.68 1026.00</div><div><br></div><div>ArtBox: 7.89 16.19 423.68 1026.00</div><div><br></div><div>File size: 464073 bytes</div><div><br></div><div>Optimized: yes</div><div><br></div><div>PDF version: 1.4</div></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>William</div><div><br></div> </div></body>
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