On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 08:35:08AM -0700, Art Olin wrote: > For the text editing, I am asking for a rather small change - that the > text be restored with its original formatting,
This is not that small change as it might look like. What GUI actually does is that it gets all selected operators (PDF creator can decide to wrap every single character into a separate operator prefixed with placement oprators so word boundaries are hard to find out without evaluating those operators as well) and gets the text out of it. The it shows the text. If you change the text it will simply create a new text operator which contains whole text. Yes, very simplistic approach. The real implementation should create a new formatting. > and that users are informed of the proper space character to enable > this formatting in added text. At present you basically select a line > and the formatting, especially spaces between the words, disappears. As already said above, GUI is not considering placement operators. We have an extract text functionality so the code could be reused but I do not know how much work it would be. > Surely this can be improved, and it is separate from QT4. Sorry > I can't help with it. Last discussion we had with Jozef and Martin ended up with a conclusion that the current GUI design is terribly heavy weight and the new QT4 code should be much simpler. But it seems that nobody has time to implement it. I am basically in the maintenance mode trying to fix bugs and backport xpdf security fixes - but I do not have much time to work on new features. I hope that somebody takes the core library and build a new GUI based on it so the things can move forward. > Using annotations is a superior way of accomplishing similar ends. Yes, annotations are really helpful. > Thanks for all your work and amazing responsiveness. Thanks -- Michal Hocko ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails _______________________________________________ Pdfedit-support mailing list Pdfedit-support@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support
