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| AustinTasseltine | Hi | 22:53.05 |
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| AustinTasseltine | My day work often involves the real unit measurement of engineering style drawings often sent in pdf format | 22:54.54 |
| | Often the pdf files are somehow broken specifically with regards to embedded document scale | 22:55.17 |
| | So I end up having to measure and with a quick envelope calculation input the corrected ratio | 22:55.48 |
| | i was looking around for tools that could hard burn this into the file and found nothing specific other than some reference to this information being imprinted only by autocad pdf printing plugins or something? | 22:56.40 |
| | and adobe were no real help | 22:57.21 |
| | so i was looking at the standard and found section 8.8 Measurement Properties documentation | 22:57.42 |
| | firstly is this the right place im looking at? | 22:58.22 |
| | and secondly before I go and implement the parsing and manipulation of this "measure dictionary" myself does anyone here know of well suited existing libraries/apis/software that can target this | 23:00.01 |
| | id prefer c++ bindings if possible but if anyones got some other suggestions? | 23:00.50 |
| | i ended up here from https://github.com/euske/pdfminer/ linking to related projects that include "mupdf" and mupdf.com said some knowledgable people hang out here | 23:03.11 |
| | so here i am :D | 23:03.32 |
| | also if anyone knows about the specific mechanism acrobat uses to handle its measurement annotation tool/plugin that would be interesting | 23:04.58 |
| | i notice for example that copying a measurement annotation causes the dynamic updating of measurement on geometry change to be disabled on the new instance | 23:05.24 |
| | if i could somehow also be able to reactivate or generally manipulate metadata surrounding these specific measurement annotations and there's some library that understands their implementation/structure | 23:07.54 |
| | TLDR: Measurement Properties and Annotations - Any library/tool currently exists to manipulate these? | 23:09.49 |
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