[Cartoweb-users] dimension error

[Alexandre Saunier]

Hello,

giuseppe.derossi at email.it wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using the 3.2 version. I've noted this kind of problem: 
> setting the scale to 1000, and meters in map file as unit measure, after
> printing the pdf, I've measured the segment on the paper and I get an error
> of 10%. All the measure of area and length perfomed in the database are
> correct. Is there a correction in supplying the pdf.
> With the same printer, the same image, but by using a Cad tool I get the
> measure right. 

Perhaps the answer to your problem is here:
http://cartoweb.org/cwiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-9f78f47806894d11ac46c25eead79e3abf9c3174

AS