CGAL: How to extract facet locations from .off file - cgal

I am currently using the Shape Diameter Function on CGAL to extract the diameter of an .off file. The function outputs a segment id for each facet in the mesh, and I would like to find the location of each facet in a 3d space so I can pair each facet with its corresponding segment-id. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Sharan

According to the documentation, the parameter SegmentPropertyMap is exactly what you need.
If you look at this example, it is done in the last 6 lines of code.

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Finally write your array to the file with WriteArray and close the file.
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from osgeo import gdal
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dataset = gtiffDriver.Create('result.tif',
height_data_array.shape[1],
height_data_array.shape[0],
1,
gdal.GDT_Float32)
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While the script works, here is small snippet from it that prints out the data value at a point.
from edu.wisc.ssec.mcidas import AreaFile as af
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Note
Here is a link to the entire script.
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how to get font size using pdfbox

Does anyone know if the method getFontSize in TextPosition always returns one and should I only use getFontSizeInPt to get the size of the font?
The problem I have is that getFontSizeInPt sometimes returns different values for the same sized text (I got 12 and 11 return for text in the same paragraph with the same size.
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It does not always return one.
Please be aware that in the PDF page content descriptions there are several settings which all influence the final text size:
the font size parameter of the font selecting operator Tf:
the text matrix set by the operator Tm;
the current transformation matrix set by the operator cm;
the UserUnit setting of the PDF page.
The final text size is the first value scaled by the text matrix, scaled again by the transformation matrix, and scaled once more by the user unit value.
(Actually there even are some more factors. E.g. if one uses rendering mode 2, fill & stroke, for a faux bold effect, this slightly increases the size, too.)
TextPosition.getFontSize returns the first value only.
TextPosition.getFontSizeInPt returns something like the first value scaled by the matrices. (something like because at first glance there seems to be another influence in it.)
Different PDF creators use these influences in different ways:
Some PDF creators use only the first value to set the font size and use the matrices only for operations not changing the effective font size, e.g. rotations.
Some PDF creators set the first value to 1 and scale using the matrices.
Some PDF creators fall inbetween and use both the first value and the scaling operations.
Thus, your PDFs seem to be created by software using the second way.
getFontSizeInPt sometimes returns different values for the same sized text (I got 12 and 11 return for text in the same paragraph with the same size.
Could you share a sample PDF with that issue? As mentioned above, at first glance there seem to be additional influences which might be incorrect. But there also might be something special about your PDF.