If you place the characters far apart from each other the search algorith
thinks that they are separated words. The last iText version has a feature
that allows you to use a font with your choice of character widths. See the
example font_widths.java in my site. This may solve your problem if you know
the correct original font width that you are emulating.
Best Regards,
Pauklo Soares
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> Subject: [iText-questions] Searchable Text
>
> What are the requirements for text to be searchable in PDF?
>
> What I'm doing is this.
>
> I'm trying to create an alternate method to generate mainframe xerox
> forms.
>
> I've created a parser for the xerox form language that will create
> PDFTemplates.
>
> When I go to match the report data to the template I have to be very
> explicit (the forms are many, and very complex), So I determine the
> spacing
> to use and put the report line to the template 1 character at a time.
>
> ---CODE SAMPLE---
>
> formTemplate.beginText();
> formTemplate.setFontAndSize(baseFont, pointSize);
> //Write out the report line a character at a time
> for (int i=1; i < lineSize; i++) {
> if (String.valueOf(lineChar[i]).trim().length() > 0 &&
> !Character.isISOControl(lineChar[i])) {
> formTemplate.setTextMatrix(new Float(xVar).floatValue(),
> height - (new Float(yVar).floatValue()));
> formTemplate.showText(String.valueOf(lineChar[i]));
> }
>
> xVar = xVar + charSpacing;
>
> }
> formTemplate.endText();
>
> ---CODE SAMPLE END---
>
> My problem is the report data is not searchable. I've tried putting the
> data out in "words" (buffer until space), and using setCharacterSpacing()
> to keep things looking good. But if I use setCharacterSpacing(>1) the
> report data is not searchable either.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Matt
>
>
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