Hi, On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:44:11AM -0700, Peter Mao wrote: > I previously posted a question about highlighting text -- > specifically, the problem that pdfedit highlights by blocks of text, > not by words or characters. Hocko replied stating that this is a pdf > specification issue that he cannot get around.
I have never told something like that. To be clear I am quoting myself: " 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. " This means that PDFedit handles text objects as they appear in the content stream (pdf data structure which contains visible elements of the page) without any higher-level logic. This, however, doesn't mean that this is not possible. It just need to get implemented. And to be honest, it is not easy to be done. Unfortunately, current man-power behind PDFedit project is less than sufficient and we are able to do bug fixing and basic house-keeping. So this feature (I admit that it is very useful) must wait until we or someone else get to it. > I'd just like to point out that Acrobat allows highlighting by > character, so there must be some way to do it. > > Anyways, I am no pdf expert, but I hope you find a way! Sure there is a way, it just waits for someone to implement it ;) Patches are welcome > > Peter -- 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
