Mike Marchywka wrote: > Along the lines of your comments, I would guess the > problem would be "someone has to read it." Now, before > you dismiss this as a pointless joke, I would just > consider it as "Stating the obvious" as this > often is a route to great discovery ( you needn't pat > me on the back at this point, I am doing so now).
Pat on your back anyway. I think one of the problems is indeed that people start coding before reading. Everybody thinks it's obvious that one should have a driver's license before driving a car, but maybe there should be something like a driver's license before using a tool like iText ;-) > Stating another obvious, we have computers. > With appropriately formetted electronic publications, > we have tools like grep to help us find what we need > with efficient use of resources. However, often > there is a problem with vocabulary and document > structure for the beginner wishing to become > familiar with a topic. That's true. I think the problem of the OP is that he isn't familiar with the concepts "text mode" vs "composite mode" in ColumnText. > Keywords don't help > if you don't know what they are, if there is > not document structure common word context > is hard to find. So, you can create neologisms > to make searching easier or in the electronic > docs create structure. fwiw. > While Leonard and others keep pointing out > that PDF has structural capabilities, everytime > someone asks here a question that > lends itself to use of these facilities, almost > unanimuous opinion is, "sure its > possible but it is too complicated or > hard and no one would use it," Note that there are examples in chapter 15 of the book, explaining how to convert an ordinary PDF to plain text, and how to convert a tagged PDF to an XML file. That could be useful if you want to retrieve the content of a PDF document. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
