Re: Re: [Swftools-common] Question about textSnapshot

[Marc Hämmerle]

> Re: [Swftools-common] Question about textSnapshot
> From:   Matthias Kramm
> Subject:        Re: [Swftools-common] Question about textSnapshot
> Date:   Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:39:09 +0200
> User-agent:     Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)
>
> Hi Jared,
>
> > 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.
>
> Hm, why do you need a textSnapshot, if the object containing the text
> is an EditText field?
>
> How does you Actionscript performing the text selection look like?
> Do you use setSelected etc. in onMouseDown/onMouseUp in order
> to adjust the selection area?
>
> Greetings
>
> Matthias


Hi Matthias,

is there a way to convert all static text in a PDF to dynamic  
(editable, stylable, selectable) AS3 TextFields using pdf2swf (or  
swfc)? I have to select multiple passages and highlight each of them  
with a seperate color. Multiple selections with different colors are  
not possible with a simple TextSnapshot AFAIK and as far as i have  
tried (multiple selections work, but the last setSelectColor gets  
applied to the *whole* selection)..

Or do you (or anybody else) know of a possible way to do that?

Greetings

Marc