Hi Tony,
Text retrieving functionality has been planned for a long time.
But some difficulties don't allow to implement it now.
With best regards,
Alexander Veremyev.
Tony Brady wrote:
Kevin,
this might be a stupid question but you seem to be the 'guy to ask' ;-)
Is there a way, preferably using Zend_Pdf, to get the 'string' data out
of a created pdf? By that I mean the strings that are painted into the
pdf - i.e. the text content (not meta data). I'm interested in this
because an app I work on dynamically produces pdfs and I'd like to be
able to unit test the saved pdf by reading it in and checking it has the
correct content (e.g. it has the string "Invoice" in it).
Thanks,
Tony
On 4 Jan 2007, at 18:39, Kevin McArthur wrote:
Lars,
I wrote some image-file-data parsers for Zend_Pdf (that are now being
updated to better support types of streams and unified binary parsing)
The current state of the upgrade work is not yet complete. PNG support
is in the new format, TIFF, JPEG and GIF support are coming.
A TIFF parser is included with Zend_Pdf currently. [It just needs to
be converted to the new format]
The purpose of these 'works' was to create Zend_Pdf image handling
functionality WITHOUT any external dependancies. They would be a good
basis (once this upgrade is complete) for this project; however, an
immense amount of work. Zend_Pdf's adaptability to run without a lot
of installed modules is really important to maintain, so I'd say we
probably shouldnt forge ahead down the path of writing wrappers for
pecl extensions.
Willie has taken over this conversion project but the status remains
unknown to me. I should be back working actively on Zend_Pdf in a
month or so time. If he's not completed the upgrades by then, I'll
take the project back *nudge*
If you need any info about image-data processing, I'm the guy to ask.
If you'd like a copy of the patch, one can be made available to you.
Kevin McArthur
P.S. There's been talk on various irc channels about a PixelIterator
class -- any interest here?
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