[Swftools-common] Question about textSnapshot

[Jared Friedman]

Hi,

I have a question regarding the access to textSnapshot object for text
selecting in a SWF version 9 file generated by the latest dev snapshot
of pdf2swf.

I generate a SWF file from a PDF containing some text rendered with a
known TrueType 1 font. I embed the font using the -f option to have a
DEFINEFONT2 tag in the SWF file. I have modified the swf compiler to
insert a dynamic textfield using ST_DEFINEEDITTEXT  containing one
glyph of the embedded font and inserting it in a Sprite using
ST_PLACEOBJECT2. I was hoping that text selection would work on that
text even when that SWF file is loaded at run-time in another SWF
file. It doesn't seems to be the case. " textSnapshot.findText()"
works on the Sprite containing that static text/dynamic text field,
but none of the text selection methods works. It is like if extracting
the metrics about the glyph/font was not performed by the loading SWF
file.
Am I missing something here?

Thanks,
JR