Hi, On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 08:24:53PM -0400, douglas germann wrote: > Michael-- > > Thank you for your very prompt response to my question. > > OK, I think I see at least part of my problem: I was working on a pdf > file that was an image only, without the text having been recognized by > an OCR program. So I ran it through AABBY Fine Reader. > > Now it does recognize the text on the form I am trying to fill in. But > when I enter text (using the "Add Text" button) I see my text getting > added, but after I hit <return> it does not appear in the document! > > When I move my mouse over the place where it should be, I do get the "I" > shaped cursor, and when I click the place where it was becomes yellow > and the text I had typed appears in that little box at the top. But not > on the document!
I suspect that glyphs for those characters are missing in the document, because the original document don't need them (as they were as graphic there). Many PDF generators optimize the size of document by reducing font sets only to used characters. Try to import system font and us it for your text. > > The Revisions box says "Linearized PDF." Not sure what that means. Linearization is specialized PDF format optimization for Internet documents - in short you don't have to wait for whole document to be downloaded to see first few pages (for more detailed PDF specification Appendix F). This type of document, however, is not suitable for incremental update (the way how we are saving changes), so it is not safe to change such documents (even not allowed in current CVS version). > I did the delinearize procedure on the document and still I cannot get > text to show up on the document. This is exactly what you should do when see Linearized document warning. Delinearization will simply copy whole object structure to the separate document and remove Linearization data structures. Issue with the text not being displayed maybe the missing-font one described above. > BTW, I have installed this on Ubuntu 8.04.01, and the version is > 0.3.2-5unbuntu2. I also completely uninstalled and then reinstalled this > evening, using Synaptic. Last released version is 0.4.1. I am not sure about Ubuntu, but current version in Debian testing is 0.4.1-1. It is generally a good idea to stick with the newest version because there are many bug fixes addressed with each release. > > I have checked the man file and also the documentation on your website. > > Would it help if I sent you a file of what I am looking at? Yes and even better you can report it in our bug tracker (http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/main_page.php) with your document and scenario to reproduce. > > Thanks for helping, Michael! > > :- Doug. > > > > > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 17:14 -0600, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:06:38PM -0400, douglas germann wrote: > > > Hi-- > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I have added some text to a document using the gui and the button that > > > says "Add Text." > > > > > > Now I would like to edit that text. I don't see a way to select what I > > > have added, nor to edit it. I've played around with the object tree but > > > that does not seem to be what I need. > > > > > > Any advice? > > > > You can edit each text object by selecting it in the text selection > > mode. This mode is started by Select Text tool button (Selection Mode > > Toolbar). > > > > When you are in text selection mode, your mouse pointer will change to > > horizontal bar when you are pointing to a text. When you click on > > a text, it will appear in the toolbar edit box where you can modify it. > > > > Please note that PDFedit recognizes following types of selection modes: > > - all objects - all PDF content objects on the page can be > > selected. This is usually not very useful for normal use cases > > because of too many objects on the page - but can be used for > > more advanced operations > > - graphical objects - for different graphical objects selection > > like lines, squares etc. (e.g. when you draw something and > > want to move/delete/change color) > > - text - selects text created by text operators (note that the > > text can be created also from graphical operators as pure > > graphic - no text selection is supported then). You can > > move/delete/change font/color selected text > > - annotations - enables page annotations selection. Annotations > > manipulation is not supported very well at the moment thought. > > > > You can get more information in the user documentation distributed with > > the PDFedit sources. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > :- Doug. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Pdfedit-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support -- Michal Hocko ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Pdfedit-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support
