On May 25, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Matthew Weinstein wrote: > 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).
PDFSelection has a routine to return each line from the selection as a sub-selection (for a single word selection this generally is just the selection itself, but for selections that span multiple lines you get a new selection for each line). For each "line selection" you can get its bounds. These you can store/archive along with the page index. With the archived rectangles and page indices you can later create selections again from those rectangles (PDFPage has -[selectionForRect:]). This isn't a perfect solution though — you may have to pad out the rectangle a bit for example to improve fidelity between the original selection and the unarchived one. If you know the range of the original text selected, PDFPage's -[selectionForRange:] is unambiguously specified. John Calhoun—_______________________________________________ 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
