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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