On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 21:40 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > 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 This is exactly the functionality I've seen. Some pdf creators seem to use an object per character and these highlight on a character basis in pdfedit. Others create blocks and the blocks are highlighted. Acrobat and others almost seem to use a graphic overlay for highlighting.
I do hope more developers start contributing to pdfedit. It is a great project and sorely needed. Alas, my time is tied up on the ISCS network security project (http://iscs.sourceforge.net ) and I'll probably start working with the X2Go folks as well so I won't be able to help much. Best of luck and thanks to the developers - John -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spiritualoutreach.com Making Christianity intelligible to secular society ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
