Hi, On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 05:24:56PM -0700, Peter Mao wrote: > I found pdfedit while looking for software to let me highlight text > and add notes to pdfs. I've run into the following > problems/annoyances: > > 1. I can't select text at the word level. whenever I select, random > blocks of text are selected. This happens whether I use highlight > mode or text-selection mode.
PDFedit selects text as it is organized. PDF creators are absolutely free how do they organize text objects (which represent visible text) into the visible text. Therefore we are able to select text only this way. > > 2. the default highlight fill box is black! took a while to find out > how to change that to yellow, but shouldn't that be a default? Yes, this is known issue and it should be changed to yellow in the current CVS. It was tracked as http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/view.php?id=247 > > 3. there's no undo. I realize that I can probably undo things from > the object tree, but trying to find my edit is like reading > hyroglyphics. Yeah, undo is not implemented yet. However, you can simulate undo functionality with careful saving and working with revisions. > > sooooo close to what I want > > Peter Best regards -- 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
