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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 7 16:00:43 +0000
2007 -------
There are 3 use cases for a PDF-input filter. To better understand what should
be developed, I will address these use cases:
A.) TEXT-IMPORT
B.) TEXT+LAYOUT IMPORT (non-editable)
C.) TEXT+LAYOUT (editable)
A.) TEXT-IMPORT
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Sometimes, people want to import the text-stream to edit it in their preferred
program and use it in their own work. In these instances, the exact layout is
not that important, and what the import filter should do is:
- generate a continuous text stream
[i.e. NOT just every line terminated by CR/LF,
like the current Adobe Acrobat select tool]
- optimally detect some text-structure:
-- like sub-/super-script
-- paragraphs
-- tables
B.) TEXT+LAYOUT
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Users need sometimes to complete a document/form. Often, governments and other
institutions publish official documents in pdf-format (simple PDFs, NOT
pdf-forms), BUT one cannot add any text to these pdf documents.
The import-filter should therefore:
- import the pdf (both text-streams and layout) as a background
- users shall be able to write in the foreground,
over the background document
[however, this should be handled better than pasting
the pdf-document as an image and writing over an image]
-- it should be possible to position the cursor on the baseline
of a text-line, so that newly written text fits the existing text
-- the tool should detect existing text-box boundaries,
so that one can write new text extending from those boundaries
- optimally, some minimal 'pdf-editing' features should be possible
-- move whole sections, e.g. if the new text does NOT fit in the
existing free space, move the whole section downwards
C.) TEXT+LAYOUT (fully editable)
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Of course, this would be a nice feature, BUT - considering the pdf format -,
seems a little bit elusive.
However, pdf-documents saved by OOo should contain additional information, that
should allow importing them in OOo in a fully editable state. At least
OOo-generated documents shall allow this editing mode.
CONCLUSIONS
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There is a new wiki page documenting progress:
see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/ToDo/PDF_Import
I think, further comments should go to the wiki-page.
PS: added myself to the cc-list
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