>> Back to our problem. Looking for answers about the rotation- >> behaviour of all non-text-elements, >> I realized that all these elements are drawn different from text- >> elements. I created a simple >> word-doc with two boxes and some text and generated a pdf-doc using >> Adobe PDFMaker. >> If you try to show the pdf with the PDFReader from pdfbox the boxes >> are rotated but not the text. > >Was this from the trunk version (i.e. store adjusted coordinates) or >your patched version (i.e. store non-adjusted coordinates)? I'm using a patches trunk-version. The textmatrix should do the whole thing. There is only one conversion left: we still have to move the reference for 0,0 from lower left to upper left.
>> One conclusion seems to be: of course the whole coords-flipping and >> moving thing in the PDFStreamEngine doesn't rotate the text. >> We have to find out how the rotation is handled by non-text- >> elements. After solving this puzzle, we perhaps know how to proceed. >Yes. Your other post that references the text matrix is the missing >part of the puzzle that is not currently in PDFBox. The current code >assumes that all text is "right to left / horizontal". The notion of >width and height in TextPosition also needs to be reconsidered >because those assume some form of direction. Having starting and >ending coordinates may make more sense. >Because the direction of the text is dependent on the matrix and the >page rotation, I'm more inclined to store the adjusted coordinates in >TextPosition so that every user of the object does not need to adjust >the coordinates themselves. I agree. The adjustments are only needed for the TextStripper-stuff and therefore it makes much more sense to place them within the TextPosition. Andreas ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Geschaeftsfuehrung: Chittur Ramakrishnan (Vorsitzender), Stefan Niehusmann - - Sitz der Gesellschaft: Dortmund - - Eingetragen beim Amtsgericht Dortmund - - Handelsregister-Nr. HR B 21222 - - USt.-IdNr. DE 2588 96 719 -
