Re: [iText-questions] [SPAM] Re: How to determine what is visible

2014-10-21 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
It sounds like a new read through the PDF standard or a book such as mine or Bruno’s would be helpful for you. Clipping paths are used to CHANGE what the user sees by “clipping” visible objects to a specific area, so that anything outside the clip will be hidden. So if you are concerned about hid

Re: [iText-questions] [SPAM] Re: How to determine what is visible

2014-10-21 Thread FDnC Red
Leonard, Michael, Thanks for your response. Here's a followup. Leonard - You mention clipping paths. I'm already filtering on operator W and W* to find clipping paths and excluding those paths. Are you saying there's an another way to determine clipping paths that I may not be filtering out?

[iText-questions] [SPAM] Re: How to determine what is visible

2014-10-20 Thread mkl
Darren, Leonard Rosenthol wrote > The only way to do that is to basically render the page and then analyze > each path. The most common reason (beyond what you¹ve already mentioned) > is that they are clipped out - meaning that there is a clipping path in > place and these are outside of it. An