Okay great - with regard to adding text, would you recommend any libraries, i.e. that have helpful methods 'autofit to size' at all, or reflowing within them? For instance, using a form field to do this?
Thanks. On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote: > PDFTextStripper has heuristics for paragraphs. This issue > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3804 > has test files and a parameter to change. > > Yes it does support form fields and flattening. But that is something > different than the first problem. Start with AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java > and search from there... > > Tilman > > > > Am 20.06.2017 um 01:40 schrieb Nick Westerly: > >> Hi - >> >> My ultimate goal is to be able to properly replace text and 'reflow' it - >> I >> know this isn't handled out of the box, but there are a few subproblems I >> am trying to first solve that would help me towards this goal. Also, my >> text reflowing does not need to be perfect! Just 'kind of work. I am doing >> my best to replicate what Acrobat does when you click 'Edit' text as my >> attempt, specifically: >> >> A. Like in acrobat when a user clicks 'edit' pdf, it seems that contiguous >> areas of text are put together into a single editable textbox, and text >> reflows within this text box. Does PDFBOX (or other suggested libraries) >> have heuristics or other ideas on how to create these 'paragraph' like >> bounding boxes? >> >> B. Acrobat, for instance, will reflow and refit text naturally put inside >> of a Form Text Field. Does PDFBOX support form text fields (that >> presumably >> would fit/reflow the text inside of them?) and be able to 'flatten' it? >> >> Anyway - any suggestions are welcome - thanks a lot! >> >> Nick >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
