Max, I owe you an apology. I don't know what I was doing, but when I
searched this morning I could not find that string, but when I
searched this afternoon, there it was.

Thank you very much.
(And thanks, too to Shlomo Perets, who helped me with this.)

Grant
who still doesn't know what caused the problem, but at least now has
a solution.



--- in reply to Max Wyss's message dated 28 Feb 98: ---
> Grant,
>
> you may look out for the CropBox command in your PDF file and adjust its
> parameters accordingly.
>
> In order to edit your files, you might need a good programming editor
> (which does not try to interpret certain non-printing characters), such as
> BBEdit or Emacs.
>
> Hope, this can help.
>
>
> Max Wyss
> PRODOK Engineering AG
> Technical documentation and translations, Electronic Publishing
> CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
>
> Fax: +41 1 700 20 37
> e-mail: mailto:prodok@prodok.ch or 100012.44@compuserve.com
>
>
>
> Bridging the Knowledge Gap
>
>
>
> ______________
>
>
> >I have an interesting challenge/issu/problem:
> >
> >One of our writers created a set of PDF documents which got burned to
> >CD and distributed before we discovered that the pages were
> >incorrectly cropped.
> >
> >The pages were *supposed* to be 7.5in x 9.00 in with 0.00in margins
> >all around.
> >What got burned was a 3.75 in x 4.5 in page with the following
> >margins:
> >Left: 2.25 in
> >Top 1.25 in
> >Right 1.50 in
> >Bottom 3.25 in
> >
> >If I use Exchange to set all the margins to 0.00 in., I have the
> >correct document.
> >
> >Unfortunately, our customers likely will only have Reader 3.0.
> >
> >So:
> >Is there a way that they can use WordPad to edit the PDF and change
> >the margins to 0.00 in? They would obviously have to save the file
> >to disk, but at least then it would be useful.
> >
> >I have found nothing in the v1.2 PDF Spec (1996) on margins or of
> >significance on cropping.
> >
> >Please reply to me directly as I read Acrobat-L in digest.
> >I will summarize responses back to the list.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Grant Hogarth
> >
> >====================================> >Grant Hogarth, Technical Publishing Manager,
> >Onyx Graphics Corp. Midvale, Utah, USA
> >mailto:grant@onyxgfx.com
> >http://www.onyxgfx.com
>
>
>
>

====================================Grant Hogarth, Technical Publishing Manager,
Onyx Graphics Corp. Midvale, Utah, USA
mailto:grant@onyxgfx.com
http://www.onyxgfx.com