On Monday, October 29, 2018, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I don’t know what the text of your notes was, if any. If the notes had > text, we just leave it at that. If it did not have text, we set the text to > the text inside the bounding boxes of the highlight. The notes provide the > bounding boxes, PDFKit gives us the text inside the bounding box. If the > notes provide bounding boxes that are too narrow, not all text will be > returned. Sometimes, PDFKit has problems getting text with certain fonts, > that may also be dependent open how the text and font are encode in the > PDF. Anyway, that is all outside our control, as is the bounding boxes we > get from the note. > Thanks for clarifying. In this situation, the PDF just has highlighting. There’s no text associated with each highlight (I guess it’s just an empty annotation). That’s what I was hoping Skim would create. Do you have any suggestions about how I could diagnose this further? I.e., some way to figure out if it’s a problem with the bounding boxes, vs. with the fonts? If it’s a font issue, I assume that means the PDF file is sort of the problem (fonts should be embedded but they’re not?), whereas if the bounding boxes are too small, then the FoxIt Reader is more the problem. In general, is there a good tool for validating pdf files? Thanks again.
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