I would like a way (easy, if possible :-) to obtain a "bounding box" for a PDF document. That is, the smallest rectangle that does not clip off any recognizable glyphs. (I will probably add a small margin for error, just to be "safe").
FWIW, I hope to use this information to adjust (e.g., scale and translate) the document to have desired indentation and margins. I have done the adjustment before, but I want to get "out of the loop" of analyzing each document. The "Hard Way" to accomplish this would be to obtain and analyze a rasterized version of the document (as might be sent to a dot matrix printer). An "Easy Way" would be to find a way to get OSX (or whatever) to tell me about the document. Clues? Suggestions? -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc.
