Re: information / screen dimensions / 1 in

Re: information / screen dimensions / 1 in

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:58 AM 1/21/2000 -0600, Mr. Coydell Rivers wrote:
>     Great. INFORMATION: After dated version of cont-tmf.zip (10-25-99). if
>compiled, you get a page dimension of 8.5 x 0.04in  --   included
>cont-tmf.zip dated: 11-29-99 - 1-01-00 -   and 1-17-00. If I could hear
>what happen, I would appreciated it. Thanks for your time.       

You're right. This is a funny combination of combined cropboxes, and a
change in paper size settings. This problem normally does not occur in
screen docs since thre the screen dimensions are explicitly set. 

I changed a few low level macros and build in a few more saveguards. 

A rather strange phenomena in pdfviewers is that dimensions less than 1 in
are automatically set to 1in. This is rather important when you convert eps
to pdf! Never make your graphic smaller than 1 inch! Personally I consider
this a bug in the viewers, but is seems to be too systematic too ignore. 

I'll post an update of context soon. A workaround is to add the command 

\setupinteractionscreen 

I will also upload a new version of the pdftex manual.  

Hans

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Re: information / screen dimensions / 1 in

[Ed L. Cashin]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> A rather strange phenomena in pdfviewers is that dimensions less
> than 1 in are automatically set to 1in. This is rather important
> when you convert eps to pdf! Never make your graphic smaller than 1
> inch! Personally I consider this a bug in the viewers, but is seems
> to be too systematic too ignore.

Don't you use very small MetaPost figures, e.g., for interactive
buttons and such?

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Re: information / screen dimensions / 1 in

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:05 AM 1/21/2000 -0500, Ed L. Cashin wrote:

>Don't you use very small MetaPost figures, e.g., for interactive
>buttons and such?

Yes, but these are included runtime in a document that is larger than 1
inch. If I would convert them to pdf first and include as pdf it would be a
problem. 

Hans

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