Re: [Swftools-common] Editable text with pdf2swf

[Chris Pugh]

.. depends whether one has a spare $250!

( Maybe when I've tweaked what I'm tweaking, I'll put a my own
price tag on it!  Then again, that spoils the whole point of having
contributed to an Open Source project )

Chrrs.


On 26 April 2010 09:52, Ben Broadhurst
<address@hidden> wrote:
> With regard to the fonts, you can get information about their size,
> position, and font names by using pdf2text from pdftron.com ($250 USD) that
> gives output like x, y, width, height, font, rotation, font size, word:
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> 112.313, 599.305, 346.255, 78.3017, "MJCPFJ+Impact", , 10, "SHOE GUIDE"
> 66.8296, 611.741, 15.6389, 69.6441, "MJCPFJ+Impact", , 7, "SPRING "
> 81.6285, 611.741, 23.4584, 65.4371, "MJCPFJ+Impact", , 4, "2010"
> 468.808, 662.239, 98.1003, 13.625, "MJCPFJ+Impact", , 16, " BY KEVIN FONGER"
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> just in case it helps,
> ben.
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> Anders Gunnarsson wrote:
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>> Ok thanks. Swfdump seems to give me some useful information
>> about the swf content.
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>> Though I don't understand if it's possible to use the font information
>> to make embedded fonts in the swf file, enabling me to create dynamic /
>> input textfields.
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>> If I would use device font, that limits me to the users installed font,
>> and what I can see from the swfdump info I can't even see the name of the
>> font (only gives me a bunch of coordinates and splines)
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>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Chris Pugh <address@hidden
>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>>    On 22 April 2010 16:33, Anders Gunnarsson <address@hidden
>>    <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>    > Is there a way to make text fron the pdf into dynamic/editable
>>    textfields in
>>    > the swf?
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>>    Not that I know of, though I can see no reason why it could not be
>>    done by
>>    replacing one object with another.
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>>    > Or maybe even just making some kind of report what text fields
>>    are on a
>>    > page, the bounding box and font information like text-size,
>>    boldness, font-family.
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>>    > regards
>>    > Anders
>>    >
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>>    swfdump; and ;swfstrings; to a point, do exactly that, don't they?
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>>    Regards,
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>>    Chris.
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