On 12/07/18 20:56, Ted Harding wrote:
A. On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 14:57 +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote: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.
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i've been watching this thread to see if something interesting would come up. So far, nothing special (and no assurance that the suggestions made would work).
So, Bev, here is the approach I would use (since deacdes ago) for this kind of task. This is very "bare hands" and could involve writing on paper ...
Bex: You say "Say you have a scale drawing of a ramp". Not sure what this kmeans. [A]Is there a scale indicator (e.g. a line with spaced tics, representing the scale relative to reality)? Or [B]is it independently stated that, if printed, the PDF as printed would be in a certain scale relationship to reality?
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Say you have a road atlas or other map. These are printed to say, one inch to a mile. Likewise with planning drawings. It might say Scale 1:10 @A1. Is that any clearer?
Further googling indicates that some Linux bod will have to write a program to do this as there's only Adobe and PDF Xchange and the latter's not Linux friendly and there's no sign of it ever being so. Chiz.
Bev (or Bex!)