On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:26 AM, DannyT <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > Hi Danny, I've implemented the search function using textSnapShot and getTextRunInfo too. When converting a document, if you use the -f flag, it will embed the fonts. I recommend using the -f flag. Use the -F flag if you want to include a font directory. use pdf2swf -h for more details. Thanks, Yousif
