On 01:45 Thu 18 Sep , Robert Backhaus wrote: > You'll see what we mean if you examine the pdf document in the pdfedit > gui first. You will often find that one line of text will contain two > or more text objects. As your translations would take up more or less > space in the document, you would end up with overtyped text, or ugly > gaps. (Yes, its a mess, blame adobe.) > Not to mention that the line justification would be messed up as well. > > You will have to keep requesting that your clients send you the > original Word, Publisher or OpenOffice (we wish) document. Or extract > the graphics from the PDF and try to re-create that document - for an > extra fee, or course. > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Jozef Misutka > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey guys, > > > > I can imagine that it would be a hit :) but it is not possible because of > > how pdf is working :( > > > > Maybe something very simple could be done, but the main problem is that we > > do NOT deal with the typesetting itself - where a line break should be, a > > page break etc - and unfortunately this is NOT automatic in pdf files. > > > > cheers, > > jozo > >
Thank you for the quick answers. I had a hunch that it wouldn't be easy. I have no idea how pdf works, but I see what is great about xml. If it was <sometag>text</sometag> it would be easy for any kind of processing, but then, what fun would be to write pdfedit, right? ;) Anyway, thanks again and keep up the good work Best regards Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
