man, you have enlighten my mind, all i need is to use setLineSeparator(), thank you very much!
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Alin Mazilu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would venture to guess that if you need to override that method you > probably need to do something more complicated than just finding out where > a line starts and where it ends. Because if you just need to get the > beginning and end of each line, you can override setLineSeparator() and all > the setXxxStart() and setXxxEnd() and then grab the "output" which is > protected and you have access to. If you set the line separator, the > paragraph start and end, the page start and end, etc., you can make out > easily where the lines start and end. > > Perhaps if you gave a little more detail about what it is you are trying to > accomplish, my help could be a little more meaningful. I've been using > pdfbox for a long time in quite a few projects and I have never had the > need to override writeLine. The library is quite well thought out. > > Regards, > > Alin > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Edson Alves Pereira <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hello guys, i was just trying to extend PDFTextStripper to capture the > > whole line of a page from a simple PDF and it made me face a problem, the > > method writeLine() is private making impossible to me distinguish when > the > > line finish without to go down textPosition and PDF objects. > > > > It could be protected? > > > > Regards, > > Edson > > >
