Re: [Swftools-common] Question about textSnapshot
From: Matthias Kramm
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] Question about textSnapshot
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:39:09 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)
Hi Jared,
> I generate a SWF file from a PDF containing some text rendered
with a
> known TrueType 1 font. I embed the font using the -f option to
have a
> DEFINEFONT2 tag in the SWF file. I have modified the swf compiler to
> insert a dynamic textfield using ST_DEFINEEDITTEXT containing one
> glyph of the embedded font and inserting it in a Sprite using
> ST_PLACEOBJECT2. I was hoping that text selection would work on that
> text even when that SWF file is loaded at run-time in another SWF
> file. It doesn't seems to be the case. " textSnapshot.findText()"
> works on the Sprite containing that static text/dynamic text field,
> but none of the text selection methods works.
Hm, why do you need a textSnapshot, if the object containing the text
is an EditText field?
How does you Actionscript performing the text selection look like?
Do you use setSelected etc. in onMouseDown/onMouseUp in order
to adjust the selection area?
Greetings
Matthias
Hi Matthias,
is there a way to convert all static text in a PDF to dynamic
(editable, stylable, selectable) AS3 TextFields using pdf2swf (or
swfc)? I have to select multiple passages and highlight each of them
with a seperate color. Multiple selections with different colors are
not possible with a simple TextSnapshot AFAIK and as far as i have
tried (multiple selections work, but the last setSelectColor gets
applied to the *whole* selection)..
Or do you (or anybody else) know of a possible way to do that?
Greetings
Marc
