Actually, I don't need the tiff; I just need the rectangle! People have to be able to sketch the rectangle over the pdf, and then my program stores and restores those rectangles (with some additional information).
On May 25, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Antonio Nunes wrote: > On 26 May 2010, at 03:01, Matthew Weinstein wrote: > >> The PDFSelection class as far as I can tell basically supports what in >> Preview.app is the "text" tool on the toolbar. The selection tool in >> Preview.app selects an arbitrary rectangle, even if there's no text behind >> the image. >> >> So, is there some way of changing the behavior of the given PDFSelection, or >> do I have to "hand code" this (using the Cropped image example code, for >> instance)? > > The selection tool in Preview just creates a snapshot of the selection. A > TIFF image. This has nothing to do with PDFSelection. PDFSelections deal only > with text, so I think they are not rich enough for your purposes. I guess you > may have to delve deeper; parsing the page streams (you can use Quartz for > that), and rolling your own selections. Not a quick and easy task. > > António > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > And you would accept the seasons of your > heart, even as you have always accepted > the seasons that pass over your field. > > --Kahlil Gibran > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
