Le 17/03/2015 02:41, William Bader a ?crit : Thanks for that explanation. I allwaus wondered what were all these boxes. I pasted your mail in the wiki : http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/PDF_Boxes_:_mediabox,_cropbox,_bleedbox,_trimbox,_artbox
JL > >>> Using 1.5.0 latest version when I set a page up as >>> 6.69 inch x 9.61 plus bleeds of .125 inch on >>> three sides the resultant pdf should be 6.815 >>> inches by 9.94 inches. but when I view the >>> resulting pdf in okular I get 6.69 x 9.61 inches. >>> The KDE Document Viewer give the same results. >>> What is the actual physical size of the pdf? > > An EPS has only a single BoundingBox but a PDF contains a MediaBox, CropBox, > BleedBox, TrimBox and ArtBox. > For a description, see http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page-boxes > For an advertisement, ArtBox is the content of the ad; TrimBox is the size > that an application like Scribus should use to place the ad; BleedBox is the > size that applications like Scribus should clip to; CropBox is the size for > proofing the ad for viewers but is not supposed to be used by applications > like Scribus; MediaBox is for complete pages including items that will be > physically trimmed from the final product like crop marks, registration > marks, slugs, etc. > Some viewers like "gv" have an option to let you override the displayed area. > The poppler package has the capability also, for example, pdftops crops to > the CropBox by default but has a -nocrop option to use the MediaBox instead. > On Linux, you can check the values with pdfinfo in the poppler package with > the -box option. > $ pdfinfo -box 20185846-crop.pdf > Producer: Acrobat Distiller 3.0 for Power Macintosh > CreationDate: Thu Dec 11 16:40:22 2003 > ModDate: Fri Dec 12 13:09:10 2003 > ... > Page size: 415.79 x 1009.81 pts > Page rot: 0 > MediaBox: 0.00 0.00 432.00 1152.00 > CropBox: 7.89 16.19 423.68 1026.00 > BleedBox: 7.89 16.19 423.68 1026.00 > TrimBox: 7.89 16.19 423.68 1026.00 > ArtBox: 7.89 16.19 423.68 1026.00 > File size: 464073 bytes > Optimized: yes > PDF version: 1.4 > Regards,William > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20150316/086d4447/attachment.html> > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net >
