How to increase the accuracy of measurements in iTextSharp?

I want to resize a pdf to a specific size, but when I use scaling it loses accuracy because a float rounds the value. How can I avoid this and make measurements more accurate?

Posted on StackOverflow on Jul 21, 2014 by Stephen De Klerk

The ByteBufferOutputStream class has a public static variable named HIGH_PRECISION. By default, it is set to false. You can set it to true so that you get 6 decimal places when rounding a number. In Java it will be like:

ByteBufferOutputStream.HIGH_PRECISION = true;

That will cost you some performance (but maybe you'll hardly notice that) and the resulting file will have more bytes (but measurements will be more accurate).

Though my example is in Java, you can easily do the same in C#.

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