Re: [Swftools-common] Text selection fails

[Atul Kulkarni]

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:08:14 +0530, Matthias Kramm matth...@scribd.com  
wrote:


Try
pdf2swf -f -T9 file.pdf -o file.swf

Atul K.

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:05:25PM -0600, Sean Laurent  
s...@studyblue.com wrote:

I'm using pdf2swf 0.9.0 and I can successfully convert and display a
large variety of PDFs. However, I can't seem to select any text:


Try converting the file with the -f option:
pdf2swf -f file.pdf -o file.swf

This should probably be a FAQ item.

Matthias







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Re: [Swftools-common] Text selection fails

[Matthias Kramm]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:44:26AM +0530, Rahul Mahurkar 
rahulmahur...@gmail.com wrote:
 But, I'm facing a bit weird problem. I'm able to highlighted text most of
 the times but sometimes few characters just refuse to get highlighted.
 
 I use:  pdf2swf -f -T9 file.pdf -o out.swf
 
 Is anyone else also facing this issue? Any thoughts how to address this?

Try the development snapshot, or better yet, the git version. I fixed 
a lot of issues with text selection lately.

Matthias

Re: [Swftools-common] Text selection fails

[Sean Laurent]

Thanks. That solved my first problem. Now text selection works in that I can 
call setSelected() and getSelectedText() returns the selection as expected. Woo 
woo!

Unfortunately, highlighting is not working. I can select text just fine, but 
the expected border doesn't appear around the selected text. I'm convert from 
pdf using the following options:

pdf2swf -T9 -f -G -o file.swf file.pdf

I've tried it with and without flattening (-G). Neither seems to make a 
difference.

My Flex code looks something like the following:

private function searchDocument(searchText:String, startPos:int = 0) : void {
  var matchLocation:int = _mainClip.textSnapshot.findText(startPos, searchText, 
false);
  var clip:MovieClip = ldr.content as MovieClip;

  var text:TextSnapshot = clip.textSnapshot;
  text.setSelected(matchLocation, matchLocation + searchText.length, true);
  text.setSelectColor(0xffcc33);
  trace(selectedText:  + text.getSelectedText(false));
}

I've tried leaving the selection color as the default (0x00) or changing it 
around, but no luck. The trace lines shows me that it's finding and selecting 
matches. But nothing gets highlighted. :(

Any suggestions?

-Sean

On Dec 6, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Matthias Kramm wrote:

 On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:05:25PM -0600, Sean Laurent s...@studyblue.com 
 wrote:
 I'm using pdf2swf 0.9.0 and I can successfully convert and display a
 large variety of PDFs. However, I can't seem to select any text:
 
 Try converting the file with the -f option:
pdf2swf -f file.pdf -o file.swf
 
 This should probably be a FAQ item.
 
 Matthias
 

[Swftools-common] Text selection fails

[Sean Laurent]

I'm using pdf2swf 0.9.0 and I can successfully convert and display a large 
variety of PDFs. However, I can't seem to select any text:

---snip---
var clip:MovieClip = ldr.content as MovieClip;
clip.textSnapshot.setSelected(10, 20, true);
trace(selectedText:  + clip.textSnapshot.getSelectedText(false));
---snip---

The trace output from the snippet above is always empty - nothing is selected. 
I've tried all kinds of variations, but nothing works.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

-Sean