Ahhh, I see. So each individual character is an element.
Well, that's disappointing I guess. But thanks for the clarification!
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:11:27 -0700 (PDT), "Alexis Pigeon [via iText -
General]" <ml-node+3700733-1863459210-251...@n4.nabble.com> wrote:
> Hi Darren,
>
> On 27 July 2011 15:59, sesshomurai <dar...@ontrenet.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> My understanding is that you can create PDF documents with iText.
>>
>
> Correct.
>
>
>> Certainly this is possible. PDF is for creating documents!
>> This means that the PDF format must encode the presentation in a
>> structured
>> way. Otherwise, the PDF viewer cannot reproduce the document.
>>
>> Thus, it is structured and all the document information including
>> text is represented in the PDF format.
>>
>
> Wrong again. There is no such thing as a paragraph, line, not even word
in
> PDF. Just bunches of characters written at some positions.
>>From Wikipedia (
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Text)
> "Text in PDF is represented by *text elements* in page content streams.
A
> text element specifies that *characters* should be drawn at certain
> positions. The characters are specified using the *encoding* of a
> selected *font
> resource*."
>
> Cheers,
> alexis
>
>
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