Michal--
Thanks! I have posted a bug report on this, with the file. Hope you can
help and that it helps you.
Does the bug system notify me when there is a response, or do I need to
check it?
Thanks!
:- Doug.
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 12:16 -0600, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> >
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