Hi Frank , PL,

Thanks a lot for your responses..

Will check out the guide. But Frank, I just wanted to know whether there are
api to retrieve to coordinates directly, or we will have to calculate it
ourselves?

Thanks again,

Regards,
Shreyas


Frank Meies wrote:
> 
> Hi Shreyas,
> 
> On 12/08/08 11:35, Philipp Lohmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
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>> 
>> Shreyas Ganesh wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a word document which I have converted to ODT format, using 
>>> converter
>>> api (jodconverter).
>>> I want to retrieve the text, from content.xml and also the positional
>>> information of the different words in the document.
>>> I am able to retrieve the text but the coordinates of the words are not
>>> directly available.
>>>
>>> I do see that svg information gives me some positional information, 
>>> but I do
>>> not see it in all documents. Could you please explain why?
>> 
>> ODT does not contain any text positions. The flow text gets formatted 
>> relative to the output device that it is supposed to be output to.
>> 
>> SVG on the other hand is a drawing format, not a document format; it 
>> contains positional information for all graphical elements contained, 
>> including text.
>> 
>>> Also I heard that the x and y coordinates of various keywords in the odt
>>> document could be retrieved from the rendering engine. I wanted to 
>>> know how
>>> to get started on this.
>>> Could you please point me to some links on how to do this?
> 
> well, the only way to do so is to use the Accessibility UNO API to 
> retrieve the screen positions of the various layout objects.
> 
> Please have a look at the very detailed description in the OOo 
> Development Guide:
> 
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Accessibility/Accessibility
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Frank
> 
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