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, >> >> please direct writer questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> 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 > > -- > Frank Meies (fme) - Co-Lead OpenOffice.org Writer > OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--gsl-dev--How-to-get-the-text-coordinates-information-%28x%2Cy%29-from-odt-file-tp20892950p20908928.html Sent from the openoffice - sw dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
