On 12/07/18 10:21, Bev Nicolson wrote:
On 11/07/18 22:50, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 11/07/18 10:41, Bev Nicolson wrote:
I don't have Flash installed so I'm not able to 'measure' Adobe documents and it turns out this could be useful in some circumstances. Does anyone know of a Linux tool one could uses for this?
What do you mean by "measure" a pdf document? I don't understand. I could be being thick!
Steve
Say you have a scale drawing of a ramp. Adobe's measuring tool allows you to find out what the actual, physical length of that ramp will be.
Phil suggested (off list, I think) PDF Studio Viewer but I'm not sure it works in the way I was hoping. There's not much choice, to be honest. (As far as I can tell.)
Ah, I was unaware you could do that. Open Office Draw has rulers, so you might be able to work it out. Inscape has a measurement tool. Not entirely sure if it would help. Click on the start point and drag to the end & it shows you dimensions of points it crosses in pixels. I don't know if that helps. It also imports the PDF so I guess its size may change.
Good luck.
Steve
Steve