PDFTranscoder & Paper size

[vyang]

Hello,

I'm using PDFTranscoder to convert an svg to pdf, everything is working fine, but I'm having trouble with setting the correct paper size.  I set my paper size of (8.5 x 11 in.) with the following code:

pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH,
                    (float)pageFormat.getWidth());
pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_HEIGHT,
                    (float)pageFormat.getHeight());

which gives me a paper size of 8.25 x 6.38 in. I also tried:

pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH,
                    (float)pageFormat.getImageableWidth());
pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_HEIGHT,
                    (float)pageFormat.getImageableHeight());

which gives me a paper size of 6.75 x 4.88 in.  Any help with this is much appreciated.  Thanks.

vyang

[thomas.deweese]

Hi Vyang,

vyang <vyang@...> wrote on 06/30/2009 01:41:53 PM:

> I'm using PDFTranscoder to convert an svg to pdf, everything is working
> fine, but I'm having trouble with setting the correct paper size.  I set my
> paper size of (8.5 x 11 in.) with the following code:
>
> pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH,
>                     (float)pageFormat.getWidth());
> pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_HEIGHT,
>                     (float)pageFormat.getHeight());
>
> which gives me a paper size of 8.25 x 6.38 in. I also tried:

   I'm not sure what you mean by 'paper size', does the
printer cut the paper for you?  :)

   Anyway I think the above is caused by the fact that your
document has a aspect ratio of ~5 by 4.  The SVG PDF transcoder
generally outputs the actual document size, if you need the
document placed in an otherwise blank page the simplest route
might be to place the SVG document in an FO document and render
it with FOP.

> pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH,
>                     (float)pageFormat.getImageableWidth());
> pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_HEIGHT,
>                     (float)pageFormat.getImageableHeight());
>
> which gives me a paper size of 6.75 x 4.88 in.  Any help with this is much
> appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> vyang
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[vyang]

Hello Thomas,

What I meant by paper size is what size of paper you are going to use to print on (ie 8.5 x 11, 11 x 17 etc).  Basically I have a page setup where the user can set/select paper size.  Now I would pass the paper size to the transcoder so that when the svg is converted to pdf, pdf would show as it being/placed on say 8.5 x 11 paper.  When I use 8.5 x 11 size the resultant pdf shows a paper size of 8.25 x 6.38.

vyang

thomas.deweese wrote:

Hi Vyang,

vyang <[e-mail]> wrote on 06/30/2009 01:41:53 PM:

> I'm using PDFTranscoder to convert an svg to pdf, everything is working
> fine, but I'm having trouble with setting the correct paper size.  I set
my
> paper size of (8.5 x 11 in.) with the following code:
>
> pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH,
>                     (float)pageFormat.getWidth());
> pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_HEIGHT,
>                     (float)pageFormat.getHeight());
>
> which gives me a paper size of 8.25 x 6.38 in. I also tried:

   I'm not sure what you mean by 'paper size', does the
printer cut the paper for you?  :)

   Anyway I think the above is caused by the fact that your
document has a aspect ratio of ~5 by 4.  The SVG PDF transcoder
generally outputs the actual document size, if you need the
document placed in an otherwise blank page the simplest route
might be to place the SVG document in an FO document and render
it with FOP.

> pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH,
>                     (float)pageFormat.getImageableWidth());
> pdfTranscoder.addTranscodingHint(PDFTranscoder.KEY_HEIGHT,
>                     (float)pageFormat.getImageableHeight());
>
> which gives me a paper size of 6.75 x 4.88 in.  Any help with this is
much
> appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> vyang
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