El Diumenge, 30 de desembre de 2012, a les 00:30:41, Jaydeep Solanki va escriure: > I'm aware about Textpage algorithms that regardless of the generator, makes > text selection work properly in column layout. > I'm not asking it for okular, I'm asking for personal use, as I was trying > out Poppler, I made a small app that currently can open pdf files, while I > was working on the text selection in column layout, I thought that if all > the libs generate text in the correct order then there is no need for > coding the algorithm to arrange text. In future I'm planning to add support > for other formats, so I need to know if the algorithm is needed.
So you are writing an Okular clone? What is the plan for your program that Okular does not support? Cheers, Albert > > Jaydeep > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > > El Dissabte, 29 de desembre de 2012, a les 22:56:12, Jaydeep Solanki va > > > > escriure: > > > As you might be knowing that Poppler::Page::textList() generates text in > > > the correct order (i.e. left to right). Now poppler not only generates > > > it > > > in the correct order but it also considers the layout, for example in a > > > > two > > > > > column document, it follows the column layout while indexing the text. > > > [image: Inline image 2] > > > > > > just of example consider the image above, see the selection, poppler > > > doesn't generate textList() in that order, it generates the textList() > > > as > > > shown in the below image, > > > > > > [image: Inline image 3] > > > So my question is do all the libraries that the generators of okular > > > use, > > > generate text in the proper order considering the layout ? > > > > That doesn't matter, Textpage algorithms "should" correctly arrange text > > in > > columns (as correctly as the algorithm in there works). > > > > Have you found any particular problem? > > > > Albert > > _______________________________________________ > > Okular-devel mailing list > > Okular-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
