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Your image isn't being scaled properly.

The way most applications generate images like this is to scale the actual
image resource down to a 1x1 pixel dot, and then use the currect
transformation matrix to scale it up to the desired size (8.5 x 11 in your
case).

You need to set the XObject Image's transformation and add a transformation
to the page contents immediately before the /Do call.

If this is all gibberish to you, could you explain what steps you're using
to insert the image into the PDF?

--Mark Storer
  Software Engineer
  Cardiff Software
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Cyr
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:19 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PDFdev] Media Box Dimensions
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> Hi Leonard,
> 
> Thanks for the info, here is my issue.  I am scanning in an 
> image using my own TWAIN implementation and then importing it 
> into a PDF.  I get a BMP from TWAIN, save it as a PDF using 
> LEADTools (1 page) and then use PDDocInsertPages to put the 
> page in my document.  If the image is scanned in at close to 
> 72dpi, the page view "zoom factor" in Acrobat is close to 
> 100%.  If I scan an image at 300dpi, the image is displayed 
> fine on the screen in Acrobat, but it is zoomed out to around 
> 20%.  If I view at 100%, I only see a portion of the image.  
> I believe this has to do with the media box / page 
> dimensions, but can't figure out how to fix it.  I assume 
> this is related to the fact that PDF coordinates are based on 
> 72dpi?  If I manually reset the page's media box, the image 
> is cropped.  Any ideas?  Thanks.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Subject: Re: [PDFdev] Media Box Dimensions
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> At 06:59 AM 2/18/2004, Chris Cyr wrote:
> >I am using Acrobat 5.0 SDK with C++ to create a plugin.  I 
> first create a 
> >new document and add a blank page to it by calling 
> PDDocCreatePage(PDDoc 
> >doc, int afterPageNum, ASFixedRect mediaBox).  I am trying 
> to figure out 
> >what the dimensions should be for my mediabox to create a 
> regular 8.5" x 
> >11" page (top, bottom, left, right).  Thanks.
> 
>          Although it's not really pixels, if you think about PDF 
> coordinates as being the pixels on a bitmap at 72dpi, all 
> your math will 
> work.  AND don't forget that 0,0 (the origin) is bottom left.
> 
>          So to figure out the size of a mediabox, for 
> example, you can do:
> 
>          8.5 * 72 and 11 * 7.2 for the values.
> 
> 
> Leonard
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