Leonard Rosenthol-3 wrote: > > For certain types of PDFs and PDF graphic objects, it can be done - for > others, it's pretty tricky. >
Do you have some additional cases that he should be thinking about? Not asking for an exhaustive list, but knowing some example of those would be quite useful as this progresses. If we can extend the parser to handle additional operations, we may be close to letting iText actually render a visual representation of the PDF, which would be a pretty nice chunk of capability. So we have two types of graphic objects that we have provided him with strategies for dealing with: 1. Raster images can theoretically just use the bounding box of the image (assuming that the full image is what he wants). 2. Vector graphics should be doable by handling the vector draw operations (either by determining the union of bounding boxes of all draw operations, or some sort of raster processing technique that is probably beyond my math skills). Ensuring that these operations happen in page space (or are translatable to page space) should be just an engineering task. Others that I can think of: 3. Text. But we already have text handling pretty much under control. 4. Form elements (I doubt this is of concern to the OP) 5. Annotations (might be of concern to the OP) -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/image-in-Flatedecode-stream-without-metadata-in-dictionary-tp3962812p3973027.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA® Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
