Thanks Ken, for coming back and sharing a solution. Will try it out Cheers, - Denis
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I has taken almost 4 months for me to have enough time to circle back and > take a look at this issue in detail. > > With swf version 9 onward flash requires that an embedded have its optional > layout defined. Without the layout object the following flash functions > will not work properly: > > TextSnapshot.hitTextTextNearPos() -- will never find text and only return > -1 > TextSnapshot.getTextRunInfo() -- specifically the corner#x and corner#y > properties will not be populated > > These functions are very important for allowing a user to interact with > static text on the page. > > By default the pdf2swf system will remove the layout from fonts, which is > probably a bug, actually 2 bugs, which I will document further in another > email. One bug is very easy to work around. > > If one calls pdf2swf with the following command-line parameter it will > force swftools to skip the font reduction step and preserve most of the font > layout information. > > pdf2swf [...] --set storeallcharacters="1" > > > ~Ken Sturgis > > > > From: Denis Zgonjanin > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 12:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] Text Selection and other questions > > Has anyone looked into this since the post was made? > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I just started looking at using swfTools to convert PDF documents to > flash AS3 files and I ran into this same problem. This problem is > actually causing me a bit of pain. I know what is causing this problem > which I will discuss below. I have spent only about an hour looking at > the swfTools code and can't pin point exactly where the problem is in > the code, but maybe someone else on this mailing list will know exactly > where the problem is and know how to easily fix it. > > The problem is the output SWF file is missing the FontBoundsTable in the > DefineFont2 tag. > > The flash specification for flash 6 included this table that defines the > area of each of the glyphs in the font table. However, this table was > not used in the flash 6 player. So if you are output a flash 6 file > there is no reason to include the bounds table. Flash 6 dynamically > generates this bound information. However flash 9 (AVM2) works > differently without this bounding table information the fonts will still > display, but when you call getTextRunInfo() the returned object will be > missing the corner information (i.e.corner0x). > > I can see in the code that the FontBoundsTable is being populated ( > SWF_Font->layout->bounds ). But maybe it isn't being saved to the > output file? I haven't managed to track down where the save routines > are in the code yet. > > If anyone has any comments it would be greatly appreciated. > > Ken Sturgis > > > > > > > Re: [Swftools-common] Text Selection and other questions > > Denis Zgonjanin > > Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:02:56 -0800 > > Hi Filip, > > > > Thanks for the answers. I did try drawing shapes around the individual > > characters, but have another problem. getTextRun() returns to me the x > and y > > position of the character, but height is returned as a decimal between > 0 and > > 1, which is odd because height is supposed to be in pixels. Also > parameters > > corner0x, corner0y, corner1x, corner1y, etc... are not there at all. > The > > documentation for getTextRun says that these will only be available if > the > > font is embedded in the SWF file. When I convert the file with pdf2swf > I > > include my entire fonts directory, yet even with simple fonts I don't > seem > > to be able to get these parameters. Do I have to explicitelly embed > that > > font in AS3 as well? If so, how do I know which fonts are in the pdf > > originally? > > > > Thanks, > > - Denis > > > > > > > > >
