PDF Text Converion

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kstadwick
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PDF Text Converion

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Our company is working on an online print editor. The customer will import his image and add text over that image.

The issue we are having is that when we edit the text in our online editor and convert it to PDF the text size is different.

So in essence a line of 12pt text placed over an image in our editor is not showing up the exact same ssize in our PDF output file. The PDF Text is slightly larger. When dealing with print we need to make sure that the text is exactly the same.

Does anyone know a solution for this?
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Re: PDF Text Converion

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I am not an expert on this. However, ...

PDF is a vector format that may have an image imbedded. But PDF does not have by itself a resolution (dpi), so one must specify that to be sure you get it the same as the dpi resolution of the image you created.

Perhaps you could provide a link to your image before and after creating the pdf file. Otherwise, you must find the right resolution for the pdf.


also see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#vector

You might also identify the version of IM and the platform you are using and your command line.
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Re: PDF Text Converion

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We are not currently using ImageMagick. I am wondering if this product would work or if there is a better solution out there.
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Re: PDF Text Converion

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What are you using?

Post an example image before and after converting to PDF and someone can test here.
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