Measurement Units

All measurement units used in CHILI Publisher (both documents and certain Resource Items) follow the following format:

"VALUE UNIT"

Value is a decimal

Unit is one of the following values:

blank (in which case the default is assumed, see lower)
mm
pt
in
cm

For example:

10 mm
5.825 in
20 pt

If no unit is included, the default unit is assumed (either when setting or getting the value). In a document, that is the documents defaultMeasurementUnit (found in ViewPreferences). For all other resources it is the Environments default unit.

Conversion

If you require the values in points or another unit, you can use the following logic:

public double ValueToPt(string val, string defaultUnit)
{
double dif = 1;

if (val == "")
return 0;

try
{
	//If the value is a double (without unit included), we append the default unit
	double num = Double.Parse(val);
	val += " " + defaultUnit;
}
catch { }

if (val.IndexOf("cm") > 0)
{
	dif = 28.346;
	val = val.Replace("cm", "");
}
if (val.IndexOf("mm") > 0)
{
	dif = 2.8346;
	val = val.Replace("mm", "");
}
if (val.IndexOf("in") > 0)
{
	dif = 72;
	val = val.Replace("in", "");
}
if (val.IndexOf("pt") > 0)
{
	dif = 1;
	val = val.Replace("pt", "");
}
val = val.Replace(" ", "");

Double res = Double.Parse(val) * dif;

return res;
}