Michael--
Thank you for your very prompt response to my question.
OK, I think I see at least part of my problem: I was working on a pdf
file that was an image only, without the text having been recognized by
an OCR program. So I ran it through AABBY Fine Reader.
Now it does recognize the text on the form I am trying to fill in. But
when I enter text (using the "Add Text" button) I see my text getting
added, but after I hit <return> it does not appear in the document!
When I move my mouse over the place where it should be, I do get the "I"
shaped cursor, and when I click the place where it was becomes yellow
and the text I had typed appears in that little box at the top. But not
on the document!
The Revisions box says "Linearized PDF." Not sure what that means. I did
the delinearize procedure on the document and still I cannot get text to
show up on the document.
BTW, I have installed this on Ubuntu 8.04.01, and the version is
0.3.2-5unbuntu2. I also completely uninstalled and then reinstalled this
evening, using Synaptic.
I have checked the man file and also the documentation on your website.
Would it help if I sent you a file of what I am looking at?
Thanks for helping, Michael!
:- Doug.
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 17:14 -0600, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:06:38PM -0400, douglas germann wrote:
> > Hi--
>
> Hi,
>
> >
> > I have added some text to a document using the gui and the button that
> > says "Add Text."
> >
> > Now I would like to edit that text. I don't see a way to select what I
> > have added, nor to edit it. I've played around with the object tree but
> > that does not seem to be what I need.
> >
> > Any advice?
>
> You can edit each text object by selecting it in the text selection
> mode. This mode is started by Select Text tool button (Selection Mode
> Toolbar).
>
> When you are in text selection mode, your mouse pointer will change to
> horizontal bar when you are pointing to a text. When you click on
> a text, it will appear in the toolbar edit box where you can modify it.
>
> Please note that PDFedit recognizes following types of selection modes:
> - all objects - all PDF content objects on the page can be
> selected. This is usually not very useful for normal use cases
> because of too many objects on the page - but can be used for
> more advanced operations
> - graphical objects - for different graphical objects selection
> like lines, squares etc. (e.g. when you draw something and
> want to move/delete/change color)
> - text - selects text created by text operators (note that the
> text can be created also from graphical operators as pure
> graphic - no text selection is supported then). You can
> move/delete/change font/color selected text
> - annotations - enables page annotations selection. Annotations
> manipulation is not supported very well at the moment thought.
>
> You can get more information in the user documentation distributed with
> the PDFedit sources.
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > :- Doug.
>
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