Ben, If I understand correctly, you want to create a PDF where big text that is copied from the PDF will come out small (as in, 12pt or so)?
It seems like what is happening should be the expected behavior to me... If your users want the copy/paste to come out smaller, why not just tell them to copy it into Notepad or another simple text editor and then into their application? Also, MS Word and OOo both have a Paste Special feature that will let user's paste unformatted text. -R On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Benjamin Podszun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there. > > Trying to polish my tif to searchable pdf(optional pdf/a) code I'm > currently faced with a rather cosmetic issue, but one co-worker already > found it and complained (albeit grinning..) about a minor thing.. > > When I created this code I tried (successfully) to add the text to the > document in the "right" size so that the selection covers the right area. I > wanted a search for "foo" highlighting the complete occurence of foo. If > you highlight anything in the sample file it seems like you're highlighting > the printed text (although that's just an image, the real text is invisible > and OCR generated). > > My code does it in a very stupid and naive way like this (ignore the mixed > casing, I'm using the java itext library in C# using ikvm to support pdf/a > properly): > > private static float CalculateFontSize(BaseFont font, double maximumWidth, > string contents) { > // Calculate the maximum font size for a given string and bound > int intSize = 3; > > if (font.getWidthPoint(contents, intSize) < 0.1f) return 0f; > > while (font.getWidthPoint(contents, intSize) < maximumWidth) > intSize++; > > double fontSize = intSize; > while (font.getWidthPoint(contents, (float)fontSize) > maximumWidth) > fontSize -= 0.1; > > return (float)fontSize; > } > > This computes the font size that would be needed to stay just within a > given width and works fine so far. But it results in rather large numbers > (the sample PDF's headline results roughly in a font size of 80 for > example). > > The mentioned co-worker now tried ctrl + a, open word(pad), ctrl + c -> The > text is copied including the formatting and the resulting document contains > all of a sudden HUGE words/lines. I wonder if it's possible to solve both > issues (nice selection, sensible result)? Can tags help here? Can I maybe > solve the selection rectangle problem in another way, sticking to the > correct font sizes for the text? > > I admit that the issue is very small, but if anyone has an idea what I > could improve here I'd be glad to polish this thing some more. > I attached a sample PDF to demonstrate the issue better than my rather > limited english can. > > Regards & thanks in advance, > Ben > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
