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

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