When you look at a PDF file you see images displayed. In fact there are ‘several’ versions of each image… Firstly there is the raw, unclipped version of the image. This may be in an ‘odd colorspace’ – see this previous posting for a good example. This RAW image may also be much bigger than…
Over the holiday I read an interesting question asking how to find numbers within a specific range on a PDF page. This set me thinking… Our perception is very much effected by the tools we generally use. If we spend our lives in spreadsheets, we think of pages as lots of cells which can have…
Page size can cause some confusion with PDFs because there are several possible values. All PDF files have a MediaBox which defines the size of the PDF in units. Values 0,0,595,842 (listed in the file as an Array [0 0 595 842]) are the normal values for an A4 portrait page, although they can also…
