Thankyou Martin. Yes what I want to do is make the page width narrower, so I can make the text larger without having to scroll a page horizontally. I will try what you suggest and get back to the list later.
Kind Regards, Keith Roberts On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Martin Petricek wrote: > To: [email protected] > From: Martin Petricek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Pdfedit-support] Cannot edit/set line length > >> Hi everyone. I'm trying to edit a PDF document and make the >> line width shorter. I want to view the complete page of a >> document without having to scroll horizontally. > > Well, so you are trying to set width of line of text, so actually a page > width? There is different function for that - Set media box. The function > you have invoked is supposed to set line width of thing like rectangles, > graphics, etc ... this sets how thick is the line with which are these > items drawn. > > "Page -> Edit page metrics" in menu (or corresponding button in toolbar) > will probably do the thing you want. You can alter page size ion the > dialog, thus making it smaller. > >> >> If I load a PDF document, select a page then try to set the >> line width, I get the following error: >> >> PDFedit 0.3.2 >> ... >>> setLineWidth() >> ! In script >> '/usr/local/pdfedit-0.3.2/share/pdfedit/pdfoperator.qs', >> line 15: >> ! TypeError. 'changeableIterator' undefined or not a >> function >>> setLineWidth() >> ! In script >> '/usr/local/pdfedit-0.3.2/share/pdfedit/pdfoperator.qs', >> line 15: >> ! TypeError. 'changeableIterator' undefined or not a >> function > > The error messages are from function isChangeableOp - this one tests > whether selected operator is changeable, but if its parameter is not an > operator at all, it spits out funny error messages. We have to change > that, there is slight bug there related to script callbacks. > > Martin Petricek > > GPG/PGP Public key: http://www.petricek.net/petricm.pgp > Fingerprint 6AA8 FFCE C061 1CB2 55F0 A1F3 3AA9 EB4F BD50 C1B8 > /------------------------------------------------------------\ > | WWW: http://www.petricek.net/ | > \------------------------------------------------------------/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Pdfedit-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Pdfedit-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support
