[Magick-bugs] Re: [bug] PDF conversion and media box

[Stephan Hennig]

Is anyone able to reproduce this problem?

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig


Stephan Hennig schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> a PPM image of dimensions 2480x3508 pixels, resp., ISO A4 format at 300
> dpi, should be converted to PDF format.  The following command first
> resizes <file> to the required dimension so that an arbitrary graphic
> file can be used.
> 
>> convert -resize 2480x3508! file ppm:- |convert -identify -density 300 ppm:- a4.pdf
>> ppm:-=>- PPM 2480x3508 2480x3508+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 1.016u 0:14
> 
> According to pdfinfo from the xpdf bundle the media box of the resulting
> file a4.pdf is not set to A4 format, but to the original pixel size of
> the image, which is way too large.  Is this a bug or am I missing some
> convert option to get the correct result?
> 
> Thanks,
> Stephan Hennig
> 
> 
>> >pdfinfo -box a4.pdf
>> Title:          a4.pdf
>> Producer:       ImageMagick 6.3.4 06/04/07 Q8 http://www.imagemagick.org
>> CreationDate:   07/19/07 00:25:32
>> ModDate:        07/19/07 00:25:32
>> Tagged:         no
>> Pages:          1
>> Encrypted:      no
>> Page size:      595 x 842 pts (A4)
>> MediaBox:           0.00     0.00  2480.00  3508.00
>> CropBox:            0.00     0.00   595.00   842.00
>> BleedBox:           0.00     0.00   595.00   842.00
>> TrimBox:            0.00     0.00   595.00   842.00
>> ArtBox:             0.00     0.00   595.00   842.00
>> File size:      11675043 bytes
>> Optimized:      no
>> PDF version:    1.3