> Pdfedit has an extract text function. How difficult would it be to
> export the text to an xml file, allow it to be replaced by a
> translation and inserted back to its correct place? I don't know any
> program which is able to do this, not even on other platforms. It is
> true, that some CAT (computer aided translation) tools are able to
> work with the formats of the graphic software used to create pdfs,
> but most of the companies don't have the 'source' documents. Anyway,
> I believe this function would be a real hit amongst translators.
Technically it won't be easy, as the original text had some formatting
(which could be quite complex when LaTeX or some similar typesetting
software is used) and if we replace the text with another one, we'll have
to reformat it. Currently we have feature that replaces text - you select
text, and in the editbox that appears you type new text and it replaces the
original text, but any formatting is lost (you get one line of text) and of
course, if the new text is longer it can overflow over something to the
right of the text or it can go even out of the page ...
So with current pdfedit you can do it line-by-line.
I think the best we can do is to add support for some very elementary
formatting (break the text at word boundary once it crosses defined border)
Martin Petricek
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