Sorry for the running commentary but this is driving me potty. If the font is not embedded, the height property of the gettextruninfo call returns a decimal between 0 and 1 - does anyone know what this relates to and if it can be translated to a pixel height at all?
Cheers, On 20 April 2010 08:51, DannyT <[email protected]> wrote: > Or maybe I'm missing something, i basically want to be able to highlight > and/or getTextRunInfo on any text in a pdf. As we allow pdfs to be uploaded > there's no guarantees we'll have the font installed to embed. > > Has anyone else tackled this? I can see scribd.com manage to do it > somehow. > > Any suggestions much appreciated :) > > > On 19 April 2010 10:59, DannyT <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We're working on a pdf viewer with a search function and use >> TextSnapshot.getTextRunInfo to highlight the search results. This is >> somewhat sporadic as where the PDF contains a font that is NOT in the fonts >> path passed in to pdf2swf then we don't have access to all of the >> information (corner0x, height etc.). >> >> I've just tested a service onlinefontconverter[dot]com which allowed me to >> upload a pdf and then download the fonts contained within it. Does anyone >> know if something like this is available in swftools or of some other >> executable (paid or OS) we could use to extract the fonts and put them in a >> temp directory which is then passed to pdf2swf? >> > > > > -- > http://danny-t.co.uk > -- http://danny-t.co.uk
