Hi On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Gilad Denneboom <[email protected] > wrote:
> Probably just a type-o. It should be renamed POINTS_PER_MM, which is indeed > 2.83465. > At some point in my code I defined those values as such: private static final float POINTS_PER_INCH = 72; private static final float MM_PER_INCH = 25.4f; private static final float MM_PER_POINT = MM_PER_INCH / POINTS_PER_INCH; private static final float POINTS_PER_MM = POINTS_PER_INCH / MM_PER_INCH; I used them as abstraction hints for an API call to position data matrix and other stuff by relative metric measurements. Example: pdf.addDataMatrix(srcDoc, page, "Sometext", 87 * POINTS_PER_MM, PAGE_H - 60 * POINTS_PER_MM - DM_H_ABS, 1f); This for example would mean that the text had to be positioned 87millimeters from the left hand side and 60 millimeters from the top of the page minus the expected height of the data matrix. It allows the user of the API to directly use typical CI/CD guideline measurements in metric format, while the drawImage() method of the PDPageContentStream object inside PDFBox always expects points in floats as input. Your mileage might vary on this level of abstraction. I found them to be very useful and certainly wished that those be accessible via public interface instead inside PDFBox. Cheers Roberto
