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> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:48:43 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] iText: Inject table and push text down
>
> Mike Marchywka wrote:
>> if you are cooperating with
>> the document author, the author could insert placeholders
>> or annotation / logical structure to make this easy.
>
> If you are cooperating with the document author, you can ask him to
> change the source that was used to create the PDF document. That's way
> better than to change the PDF resulting from that source.
Then when would you ever use itext except in the case below
which you also dismiss? Presumably you are making something
you want to programmatically change and only
have human intervention where needed. Of course, if
you mean choose something other than PDF this is
what got me started here :) Get an SVG file or something.
>
>> If this is antagonist to original author, if you are trying to
>> make a political satire for example, you could still examine
>> the rest of the objects and re-typeset them yourself.
>
> Too error prone.
> For instance: how would your application know that a specific part of
> the content on page 1 is content that needs to be moved to page 2,
> whereas another part of that content is a footer that must remain on
> page 1 (to avoid having a footer somewhere halfway page 2).
>
> Sure, you could to some extent solve this if you keep the structure in
> the PDF (tagged PDF), but still, it's not what PDF was designed for.
This is why I keep trying to get information providers to use
something else- even plain text where that is the type of
information being provided. Isolated text blobs arranged
for artistic merit are not
easy to understand. But, the example provided here by adobe
demonstrates a lot of information can be included and it
may or may not be explicit or otherwise determinable.
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