PDF bounding box problem?

cormullion

9 Feb 2005 9 Feb '05

5:34 p.m.

I’m trying to place a PDF created by Adobe Illustrator 10 using \externalfigure. But it’s coming in with loads of white space around it. Although I’m new to ConTeXt, this reminds me of the old problem where there are different types of ‘box’ specified in the PDF file: one possibly specifying a paper size, others specifying perhaps the extent of the marks described within. The PDF file contains these ‘box’ lines:

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/MediaBox [ 0.5 -0.5 612.5 791.5 ] /ArtBox [ 206.97998 316.0459 402.12988 477.66016 ] %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 %AI3_TemplateBox: 306.5 395.5 306.5 395.5 %AI3_TileBox: 30 35 582 761 %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 %AI3_TemplateBox: 306.5 395.5 306.5 395.5 %AI3_TileBox: 30 35 582 761 /FontBBox [ -167 -250 1006 939 ] /FontBBox [ -222 -250 1006 922 ]

To my untutored eye it looks like the MediaBox is being used - at least, the graphic takes up an area about Letter size. Is there some setting I’ve missed that lets me get the bounds of the graphics rather than the file? thanks!

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Matthias Weber

9 Feb 9 Feb

5:41 p.m.

I usually save the graphics in an Illustrator document which has the dimensions and margins I want. I don't know another way -- Matthias On Feb 9, 2005, at 11:34 AM, cormullion wrote:

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I’m trying to place a PDF created by Adobe Illustrator 10 using \externalfigure. But it’s coming in with loads of white space around it.

Although I’m new to ConTeXt, this reminds me of the old problem where there are different types of ‘box’ specified in the PDF file: one possibly specifying a paper size, others specifying perhaps the extent of the marks described within. The PDF file contains these ‘box’ lines:

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/MediaBox [ 0.5 -0.5 612.5 791.5 ] /ArtBox [ 206.97998 316.0459 402.12988 477.66016 ] %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 %AI3_TemplateBox: 306.5 395.5 306.5 395.5 %AI3_TileBox: 30 35 582 761 %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 %AI3_TemplateBox: 306.5 395.5 306.5 395.5 %AI3_TileBox: 30 35 582 761 /FontBBox [ -167 -250 1006 939 ] /FontBBox [ -222 -250 1006 922 ]

To my untutored eye it looks like the MediaBox is being used - at least, the graphic takes up an area about Letter size. Is there some setting I’ve missed that lets me get the bounds of the graphics rather than the file?

thanks!

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Hans Hagen

6:20 p.m.

cormullion wrote:

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I’m trying to place a PDF created by Adobe Illustrator 10 using \externalfigure. But it’s coming in with loads of white space around it.

Although I’m new to ConTeXt, this reminds me of the old problem where there are different types of ‘box’ specified in the PDF file: one possibly specifying a paper size, others specifying perhaps the extent of the marks described within. The PDF file contains these ‘box’ lines:

...
/MediaBox [ 0.5 -0.5 612.5 791.5 ] /ArtBox [ 206.97998 316.0459 402.12988 477.66016 ] %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 %AI3_TemplateBox: 306.5 395.5 306.5 395.5 %AI3_TileBox: 30 35 582 761 %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 %AI3_TemplateBox: 306.5 395.5 306.5 395.5 %AI3_TileBox: 30 35 582 761 /FontBBox [ -167 -250 1006 939 ] /FontBBox [ -222 -250 1006 922 ]

To my untutored eye it looks like the MediaBox is being used - at least, the graphic takes up an area about Letter size. Is there some setting I’ve missed that lets me get the bounds of the graphics rather than the file?

\externalfigure[whatever.pdf][width=10cm,size=artbox] Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

cormullion

11:51 p.m.

Hans Hagen said on 2005-02-09, 18:20 (+0100 GMT):

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To my untutored eye it looks like the MediaBox is being used - at least, the graphic takes up an area about Letter size. Is there some setting I’ve missed that lets me get the bounds of the graphics rather than the file?

\externalfigure[whatever.pdf][width=10cm,size=artbox]

Great! I didn’t spot the artbox option... thanks

Hans Hagen

10 Feb 10 Feb

10:10 a.m.

cormullion wrote:

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Hans Hagen said on 2005-02-09, 18:20 (+0100 GMT):

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To my untutored eye it looks like the MediaBox is being used - at least, the graphic takes up an area about Letter size. Is there some setting I’ve missed that lets me get the bounds of the graphics rather than the file?

\externalfigure[whatever.pdf][width=10cm,size=artbox]

Great! I didn’t spot the artbox option...

it's a rather new option, because pdftex only supports it in later versions Hans ps. be aware of the fact that sometimes those boxes are wrong; has to do with illustrator defaults and such (there is a technote on that on our site) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Martin Kolařík

10:29 a.m.

Hi all, I have problem with paragraph background in columnset environment: \definetextbackground [TXBG] [frame=no,offset=0.25em,location=paragraph] \definecolumnset[main][n=2] \startcolumnset[main] ... \starttextbackground[TXBG] \typebuffer[BUFFER] \stoptextbackground ... \stopcolumnset Using the background in left column (as the text flows) causes shifting whole column down }(including both text and properly placed background). Sorry, I have no minimal example now, as the source is XML. But the mapping macros lead into the code described above. Are there some problems with backs in columnsets? Thank you, Martin -----Original Message----- From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl [mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl]On Behalf Of Hans Hagen Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:11 AM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] PDF bounding box problem? cormullion wrote:

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Hans Hagen said on 2005-02-09, 18:20 (+0100 GMT):

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To my untutored eye it looks like the MediaBox is being used - at least, the graphic takes up an area about Letter size. Is there some setting I’ve missed that lets me get the bounds of the graphics rather than the file?

\externalfigure[whatever.pdf][width=10cm,size=artbox]

Great! I didn’t spot the artbox option...

Hans Hagen

5:20 p.m.

Martin Kolařík wrote:

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Using the background in left column (as the text flows) causes shifting whole column down }(including both text and properly placed background).

Sorry, I have no minimal example now, as the source is XML. But the mapping macros lead into the code described above.

maybe add some \ignorespaces to your xml mappin gcode helps; otherwise, i need an example Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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