PdfProperties

[joaodaffonsojr]

Hello!

I was trying to use this script to get box values ​​in mm and noticed that cropbox and artbox have the same values.
But not in PDF! Here is an example of a PDF file in Pitstop Pro

pitstop_mm.png (31.41 KiB) Viewed 28070 times

and also the values ​​in Switch using the PdfProperties example script.

switch_pdfproperties.png (62.19 KiB) Viewed 28070 times

What could I be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

[mkayyyy]

I've just had a debug through the PdfProperties script with a blank PDF I made matching the values of the screenshot and I get the same result as you with the artBox and cropBox values being the same.

I don't think this is something you or the script is doing wrong. When I was debugging it looks like the calls getCropBoxWidth and getArtBoxWidth / getCropBoxHeight and getArtBoxHeight return the same values 637.7956999999999 and 892.9134.

Unless I'm missing something obviously wrong with the PDF I made (Blank PDF made with Enfocus Create Document through PitStop Pro) it looks like an issue with how the Switch Scripting Engine is parsing this PDF

Link to the PDF I made to test with if anybody else has any other thoughts: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t8y7z10p ... jiz7m&dl=0

[freddyp]

Thanks for reporting this. It does indeed seem like it is a bug in the PdfPage class. I logged it.

Art boxes are not used very often, so I hope you do not suffer from this. If it is important to you and you have PitStop Server then I suggest to use the FastLane app: https://www0.enfocus.com/en/appstore/product/fastlane

[joaodaffonsojr]

Hi Freddy,
I can't use fastlane for this project, because I need to read the artbox variable from 2 different datasets and do a calculation to see if the values ​​are within a range.
I'll switch to bleedbox for now until this is resolved.
Thanks!

And thanks Mark for helping me too!

[jan_suhr]

Do you have callas pdfToolbox?

[joaodaffonsojr]

Do you have callas pdfToolbox?

No !
But can callas read 2 different datasets in the same pdf ?

[jan_suhr]

You can script everything in pdfToolbox so it can handle it. From Switch you transfer your values from the datasets to variables that pdfToolbox can use.

[tdeschampsBluewest]

Do you have callas pdfToolbox?

No !
But can callas read 2 different datasets in the same pdf ?

I don't understand the problem here, you can pick value from two dataset and make calculation from them in switch, so what's blocking you with fastlane?

[joaodaffonsojr]

Do you have callas pdfToolbox?

No !
But can callas read 2 different datasets in the same pdf ?

I don't understand the problem here, you can pick value from two dataset and make calculation from them in switch, so what's blocking you with fastlane?

Problem is that looks like a bug in the PdfPage class, as Freddy said.
The cropbox and artbox have the same values.
So script gets the wrong info, nothing related to Pitstop or Fastlane.