Bug 101468 - pdftotext -bbox width and height does not consider layout
Summary: pdftotext -bbox width and height does not consider layout
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium trivial
Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2017-06-16 14:41 UTC by Chris
Modified: 2018-04-17 09:23 UTC (History)
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Description Chris 2017-06-16 14:41:48 UTC 
When running pdftotext with the -bbox option, I get the following output from two separate documents:

<page width="2384.000000" height="3370.000000">
<page width="595.440000" height="841.680000">

The issue with this is that the first uses landscape and the other a portrait orientation. Pdftotext seems to ignore this completely. Is this a bug that can be fixed, or is this a feature I have to code my way around?
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2017-06-17 16:15:51 UTC 
The first thing you have to do when reporting a bug is attach the documents you're using otherwise it's very hard to fix the bugs.
Comment 2 Chris 2017-06-19 07:10:30 UTC 
This is for pdftext 0.44.0 on Ubuntu 17.04. The PDF where layout is ignored was created in AutoCAD 2016. 

Unfortunately I cannot upload the PDFs used due to classification, so please close this bug for now. I can reopen/create a new if I find any PDFs with the same issue where there are no restrictions on sharing.

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