I have a question about the coordinate system orientation for text.

Using PrintTextLocations and the ExtractTextByArea example, I have
observed that the coordinate system for the position of the text has
the Y coordinate running down the page.

I was surprised by this because ExtractImageLocations reports images
with the origin being at the lower left.

My quick browsing of the pdf spec at
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf shows
examples of text with the origin being defined from the lower left
corner of the page.

I tried it on multiple .pdf documents from different sources to ensure
that there wasn't something strange with my .pdf files.

I didn't find any discussion of this in the email archives.

Any comments or explanation about why the Y coordinate system runs
down the page would be helpful.


Thanks,
Michael

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