Re: Adobe Illustrator CS3 placing a linked PDF image, cropping to bounding box
Re: Adobe Illustrator CS3 placing a linked PDF image, cropping to bounding box
- Subject: Re: Adobe Illustrator CS3 placing a linked PDF image, cropping to bounding box
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:10:17 +1100
- Thread-topic: Adobe Illustrator CS3 placing a linked PDF image, cropping to bounding box
On 27/2/09 1:01 PM, "Stan Cleveland" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I asked a co-worker of mine* who¹s familiar with PDF stuff about your
> question. He suggested that you need to use the ³PDF art box² option in your
> script, like so:
> tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
> set PDF crop bounds of PDF file options of settings to PDF art box
> end tell
> Apparently, the ³bounding² and ³media² boxes are often/usually defined to be
> the canvas/page size, while the ³art² box snuggles to the illustration itself.
> See if that makes a difference.
It's a good suggestion, but unfortunately it doesn't work in this case --
either via script or manually. Jim sent me one of the PDFs, and I think
that's where part of the problem is.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
AppleScript Pro Sessions <http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>
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