Is it possible then that the media box is larger than the page, or that it looks like their algorithm is adding margins to that media box, to explain the shrinking that occurs for a normal Pdf? -----Original Message----- From: Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 02:20:17 To: For general discussion about using Skim<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] auto scale issue Printing uses the media box for the PDF, it does not care (or even know) anything at all about the "content" of the page. Also, for your information, printing is completely inside the realm of Apple's mostly private code. Christiaan On 5 Dec 2008, at 2:07 AM, Ivan Werning wrote: > When printing a PDF file if I hit the "scale each page to fit paper", > it seems to shrink the image even if everything is originally well > inside the paper (indeed, it does this even when there are 2 inches of > margin or more on all sides). > > This seems especially odd. And symptomatic of what I really care about > which I describe next: > > If I crop the file using CMD-K then do the same I can get it to grow > the PDF image within the page, but less than I would want. > > Does anyone understand what the algorithm or objective of "Scale each > page to fit paper" is? I would like to be able to use it and have it > not shrink something that already fits, and have it expand something > that is cropped much more. > > Is there any way to change this default behavior? > > By the way, I'm aware that this is an issue that is not specific to > Skim (it does the same in Prevew) and must be a PDFkit feature or OS X > setting, etc. Still I thought this list was my best shot at someone > having the knowhow have the know-how and interest in this. > > Thanks > > -Ivan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, > Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to > help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
