Re: [iText-questions] setting media box different to page size

2006-05-23 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 09:05 AM 5/23/2006, Martin Resch wrote: in which case(s) could be moving the point of origin a problem and why? Trying to move the origin in PDF - especially one which is top-left instead of bottom-left based involved application of a transformation matrix AND the use of 2D matrix

Re: [iText-questions] setting media box different to page size

2006-05-23 Thread Martin Resch
in which case(s) could be moving the point of origin a problem and why? Leonard Rosenthol schrieb: At 03:49 AM 5/23/2006, Martin Resch wrote: - set the mediabox and the physical page size to the overall size (in my case to the size of the bleed box) - set the size of the crop box to the size of

Re: [iText-questions] setting media box different to page size

2006-05-23 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 03:49 AM 5/23/2006, Martin Resch wrote: - set the mediabox and the physical page size to the overall size (in my case to the size of the bleed box) - set the size of the crop box to the size of the trim box, to view the "final" document size by viewing the pdf - set the trim box and the crop

Re: [iText-questions] setting media box different to page size

2006-05-23 Thread Martin Resch
hello, thanks for your answer, leonard. i have such a "certain workflow" you spoke of: i want to generate prepress documents for offset printing. there are a lot of data structures available yet and the one big thing i want to avoid is to change the x/y coordinates in these structures. so m

Re: [iText-questions] setting media box different to page size

2006-05-22 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 11:17 AM 5/22/2006, Martin Resch wrote: i want to set the media box with negative x and y coordinates, OK. Perfectly legal, albeit unusual. because my point of origin of any elements is relative to the trim box. so the media box has to be larger than the trim box. the pag

[iText-questions] setting media box different to page size

2006-05-22 Thread Martin Resch
hello, i want to set the media box with negative x and y coordinates, because my point of origin of any elements is relative to the trim box. so the media box has to be larger than the trim box. the page size of the document equals the trim box. can i do so or do i have to set the p