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[Pdfedit-support] Reducing disk space of images

[Reiner M. <re...@mi...>]

I have some scanned books, containing black/white pages. Currently a page 
takes about 1MB of disk space.
* Is there a way to reduce the amount to eg. 500 kB without loosing the (OCR-) 
text ? 

Regards
Reiner Miericke

Re: [Pdfedit-support] miscellaneous pdfedit issues

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 08:35:08AM -0700, Art Olin wrote:
> For the text editing, I am asking for a rather small change - that the 
> text be restored with its original formatting, 

This is not that small change as it might look like. What GUI actually
does is that it gets all selected operators (PDF creator can decide
to wrap every single character into a separate operator prefixed with
placement oprators so word boundaries are hard to find out without
evaluating those operators as well) and gets the text out of it. The it
shows the text.  If you change the text it will simply create a new text
operator which contains whole text. Yes, very simplistic approach. The
real implementation should create a new formatting.

> and that users are informed of the proper space character to enable   
> this formatting in added text. At present you basically select a line 
> and the formatting, especially spaces between the words, disappears.  

As already said above, GUI is not considering placement operators.
We have an extract text functionality so the code could be reused but I
do not know how much work it would be.

> Surely this can be improved, and it is separate from QT4. Sorry
> I can't help with it.  

Last discussion we had with Jozef and Martin ended up with a conclusion
that the current GUI design is terribly heavy weight and the new QT4
code should be much simpler. But it seems that nobody has time to
implement it. I am basically in the maintenance mode trying to fix bugs
and backport xpdf security fixes - but I do not have much time to work
on new features. I hope that somebody takes the core library and build a
new GUI based on it so the things can move forward.

> Using annotations is a superior way of accomplishing similar ends.

Yes, annotations are really helpful.

> Thanks for all your work and amazing responsiveness.

Thanks

-- 
Michal Hocko

Re: [Pdfedit-support] miscellaneous pdfedit issues

[Art O. <ol...@tr...>]

On 11-04-21 07:30 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:10:24PM -0700, Art Olin wrote:
>> Hi, Michal.
> Hi,
>
>> When I use the addText gui button to insert new test into a document, I
>> find that successive insertions require exponentially greater time to
>> execute. During this period the gui is frozen and the code consuming
>> 100% cpu but modest memory. After three or four insertions the time to
>> add additional characters will be 10s of minutes. The length of the
>> added strings seem to be irrelevant. After repeated additions the
>> process of saving the file on exiting the gui is quite long. When you
>> save a revision and exit the gui, subsequent text additions start
>> quickly and increase in time as before.
> Yes, this is a known issue and I guess it is reported in our bug
> tracking system (http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/main_page.php) as well.
> I am not an author of GUI so my knowledge of this area is very limited.
> I was told that the problem is in the QSA scripting layer which leaks
> memory a lot. The only proposed "solution" was to get rid of QSA and
> move to qscript in the QT4 base port. I am not sure what is the current
> status of that, though. Maybe Martin can tell us more.
>
> Thanks, Michal. I expect that the QT4 port will fix many of these performance problems.
>> I would like to be able to add annotations to documents, and this is not
>> fully supported in the gui. I've found that I can instantiate an
>> annotation from the command line with
>> addAnnotation(firstSelected(), p1, p2, l, h) after selecting a page with
>> the cursor. The annotation appears
>> when the gui "select annotations" is set, but the content is not
>> visible, and when I select the annotation
>> I get an error:QString::arg(): Argument missing:
>> go_to_target_from_selected_annotation(), 0). Clearly some links are missing.
>>
>> Is there a simple script to generate editable annotations?
> The functionality is implemented in the core library to some extend but
> GUI doesn't export it. Almost all features are frozen until we have a
> new QT4 gui.
When I looked at the results with acroread they were OK - content in place.
They just look screwy when you insert them with pdfedit. I can live with 
that. So the work on the
core library has been worthwhile.
>
>> Finally, when i do gui select text and select some, it appears in a
>> little window of the gui and can be edited. As soon as you change
>> anything, all the spaces disappear, and if spaces are added manually
>> they do not appear on the pdf. Is there a workaround for this.
> Text editing is usable only for small changes. Therefore it doesn't
> contain any deep logic. We simply get all selected objects, get the text
> out of them and if something is changed we simply create a new text
> operator with the whole text without any formating. Yes, it sucks, but
> this is the current implementation and as I already said we are waiting
> for QT4 port.
>
> I am sorry about this - wait for qt4 port - hand waving but this is the
> current project state.

For the text editing, I am asking for a rather small change - that the 
text be restored with its original formatting, and that users are 
informed of the proper space character to enable this formatting in 
added text. At present you basically select a line and the formatting, 
especially spaces between the words, disappears. Surely  this can be 
improved, and it is separate from QT4. Sorry I can't help with it.
Using annotations is a superior way of accomplishing similar ends.

Thanks for all your work and amazing responsiveness.

Re: [Pdfedit-support] miscellaneous pdfedit issues

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:10:24PM -0700, Art Olin wrote:
> Hi, Michal.

Hi,

> 
> When I use the addText gui button to insert new test into a document, I 
> find that successive insertions require exponentially greater time to 
> execute. During this period the gui is frozen and the code consuming 
> 100% cpu but modest memory. After three or four insertions the time to 
> add additional characters will be 10s of minutes. The length of the 
> added strings seem to be irrelevant. After repeated additions the 
> process of saving the file on exiting the gui is quite long. When you 
> save a revision and exit the gui, subsequent text additions start 
> quickly and increase in time as before.

Yes, this is a known issue and I guess it is reported in our bug
tracking system (http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/main_page.php) as well.
I am not an author of GUI so my knowledge of this area is very limited.
I was told that the problem is in the QSA scripting layer which leaks
memory a lot. The only proposed "solution" was to get rid of QSA and
move to qscript in the QT4 base port. I am not sure what is the current
status of that, though. Maybe Martin can tell us more.

> 
> I would like to be able to add annotations to documents, and this is not 
> fully supported in the gui. I've found that I can instantiate an 
> annotation from the command line with
> addAnnotation(firstSelected(), p1, p2, l, h) after selecting a page with 
> the cursor. The annotation appears
> when the gui "select annotations" is set, but the content is not 
> visible, and when I select the annotation
> I get an error:QString::arg(): Argument missing: 
> go_to_target_from_selected_annotation(), 0). Clearly some links are missing.
> 
> Is there a simple script to generate editable annotations?

The functionality is implemented in the core library to some extend but
GUI doesn't export it. Almost all features are frozen until we have a
new QT4 gui.

> 
> Finally, when i do gui select text and select some, it appears in a 
> little window of the gui and can be edited. As soon as you change 
> anything, all the spaces disappear, and if spaces are added manually 
> they do not appear on the pdf. Is there a workaround for this.

Text editing is usable only for small changes. Therefore it doesn't
contain any deep logic. We simply get all selected objects, get the text
out of them and if something is changed we simply create a new text
operator with the whole text without any formating. Yes, it sucks, but
this is the current implementation and as I already said we are waiting
for QT4 port.

I am sorry about this - wait for qt4 port - hand waving but this is the
current project state.
-- 
Michal Hocko

Re: [Pdfedit-support] Memory leak, very slow script execution, and quit appears to fail.

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:02:20AM -0400, Netbeans wrote:
> I was trying to add page numbers to all 1300 pages of a java/jdbc.
> Someone posted a pagenumber script to accomplish this task.
> 
> I thought my poor little laptop could handle the task, but after 5 hours 
> i noticed it was swapping.
> 
> So I started another linux box with 4gig of main mem, and a 3.2ghz quad 
> AMD processor.
> When the task did finish, some 396 min elapsed ( 6 hours ) , and memory 
> usage got up to 2278m Virt.( yes thats 2.1gig of main memory ).

Yes, QSA scripting sucks pretty much. QT4 based release, if it is ever
going to happen, should use qscript, or what is the name. The only thing
I can suggest is to prepare a simple tool based on the
pdfedit-core-devel library which does the same.

I am really sorry about that...

> 
> When I hit the file->quit, the pdfedit window disappears, and it just 
> spins at 100% cpu usage.
> 
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 gat gat 6460589 Apr 20 06:55 a.pdf
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 gat gat 4822133 Apr 19 19:56 JDBC.API.Tutorial.and.Reference.3Ed.2003.BM.OCR.6.0.ShareConnector_Addison-Wesley.pdf
> 
> the file a.pdf is the delinearized version of the jdbc api tutorial

-- 
Michal Hocko

[Pdfedit-support] miscellaneous pdfedit issues

[Art O. <ol...@tr...>]

Hi, Michal.

When I use the addText gui button to insert new test into a document, I 
find that successive insertions require exponentially greater time to 
execute. During this period the gui is frozen and the code consuming 
100% cpu but modest memory. After three or four insertions the time to 
add additional characters will be 10s of minutes. The length of the 
added strings seem to be irrelevant. After repeated additions the 
process of saving the file on exiting the gui is quite long. When you 
save a revision and exit the gui, subsequent text additions start 
quickly and increase in time as before.

I would like to be able to add annotations to documents, and this is not 
fully supported in the gui. I've found that I can instantiate an 
annotation from the command line with
addAnnotation(firstSelected(), p1, p2, l, h) after selecting a page with 
the cursor. The annotation appears
when the gui "select annotations" is set, but the content is not 
visible, and when I select the annotation
I get an error:QString::arg(): Argument missing: 
go_to_target_from_selected_annotation(), 0). Clearly some links are missing.

Is there a simple script to generate editable annotations?

Finally, when i do gui select text and select some, it appears in a 
little window of the gui and can be edited. As soon as you change 
anything, all the spaces disappear, and if spaces are added manually 
they do not appear on the pdf. Is there a workaround for this.

  I'm using the latest code downloaded from the ubuntu rep.

Thanks for your help. Perhaps others have experienced similar problems?

[Pdfedit-support] Memory leak, very slow script execution, and quit appears to fail.

[Netbeans <net...@ga...>]

I was trying to add page numbers to all 1300 pages of a java/jdbc.
Someone posted a pagenumber script to accomplish this task.

I thought my poor little laptop could handle the task, but after 5 hours 
i noticed it was swapping.

So I started another linux box with 4gig of main mem, and a 3.2ghz quad 
AMD processor.
When the task did finish, some 396 min elapsed ( 6 hours ) , and memory 
usage got up to 2278m Virt.( yes thats 2.1gig of main memory ).

When I hit the file->quit, the pdfedit window disappears, and it just 
spins at 100% cpu usage.

> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gat gat 6460589 Apr 20 06:55 a.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 gat gat 4822133 Apr 19 19:56 JDBC.API.Tutorial.and.Reference.3Ed.2003.BM.OCR.6.0.ShareConnector_Addison-Wesley.pdf

the file a.pdf is the delinearized version of the jdbc api tutorial

Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building

[Xu W. <xuw...@gm...>]

It works now!

Thank you very much for your help Michal and Scott. I am actually building
it under Ubuntu, so I guess that's why I didn't need to put the portability
flags. I set the QTDIR variable as stated and just did ./configure and
everything went fine and the program works fine as far as I can tell.

Best,

Xu

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Michal Hocko <ms...@gm...> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 02:59:28PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> >  Hi Xu,
> >
> >  My guess is that the QTDIR variable is not being seen by qsa. Instead of
> > appending it to your configure command, try setting it externally. For
> > example, in your terminal, enter the following two lines
> >  QTDIR="/usr/share/qt3"
> >  export QTDIR
>
> This might be possible, because we are running an external configure in
> qsa directory. qmake is passed in as an argument so it knows what to run
> but maybe qmake lacks the variable...
>
> >
> >  Then instead of running ./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3
> > --enable-portability-flags=no
> >  run simply ./configure
>
> You still need --enable-portability-flags=no in cygwin as we learnt in
> the past
>
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
>
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Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 02:59:28PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>  Hi Xu,
> 
>  My guess is that the QTDIR variable is not being seen by qsa. Instead of
> appending it to your configure command, try setting it externally. For
> example, in your terminal, enter the following two lines
>  QTDIR="/usr/share/qt3"
>  export QTDIR

This might be possible, because we are running an external configure in
qsa directory. qmake is passed in as an argument so it knows what to run
but maybe qmake lacks the variable...

> 
>  Then instead of running ./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3
> --enable-portability-flags=no
>  run simply ./configure

You still need --enable-portability-flags=no in cygwin as we learnt in
the past


-- 
Michal Hocko

Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building

[Scott K. <sko...@pr...>]

 Hi Xu,

 My guess is that the QTDIR variable is not being seen by qsa. Instead of
appending it to your configure command, try setting it externally. For
example, in your terminal, enter the following two lines
 QTDIR="/usr/share/qt3"
 export QTDIR

 Then instead of running ./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3
--enable-portability-flags=no
 run simply ./configure

 Hopefully that will take care of the other error as well.

 Pasted below are the previous posts. Sorry for the ugly paste (I copied
from the archives because I just signed up).

 Best,

 Scott Kostyshak

 ------
 Scott Kostyshak
 Economics

 [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building
 From: Xu Wang  - 2011-04-15 23:38

 Attachments: Message as HTML     

 I am having trouble building pdfedit and have the same errors as posted
on:

 http://www.mail-archive.com/pdfedit-support@...>

 Could you please send me the required files to overcome the errors?

 Thank you so much!

 Best,

 Xu Wang

           
       Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building
       From: Michal Hocko  - 2011-04-16 11:52

       Hi,

       On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:38:02PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote:
       > I am having trouble building pdfedit and have the same
errors as posted on:
       > 
       > http://www.mail-archive.com/pdfedit-support@...> [1]
       > 
       > Could you please send me the required files to overcome the
errors?

       Could you try the current CVS version and use
--enable-poratability-flags=no
       as configure parameter.

       > Thank you so much!
       > 
       > Best,
       > 
       > Xu Wang

       -- 
       Michal Hocko

           
       Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building
       From: Xu Wang  - 2011-04-16 16:33

       Attachments: Message as HTML     

       Michal,

       Please note that my logfile was too large and thus it is
pending approval.
       In the meantime, I will paste the message in that email below
and send an
       email to your gmail with the log.

       Thank you for the quick reply. I receive the same error.
Attached is my log
       file.

       I clicked on "Download GNU Tarball" from here:
       http://pdfedit.cvs.sourceforge.net/pdfedit/ [2]

       I then ran the commands and received the output in pdfedit.log

       Here was my configure command:
       ./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3 --enable-portability-flags=no

       Should I use qt3 or qt4? I get the error with both.

       Thank you,

       Xu Wang

       On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Michal Hocko  wrote:

       > Hi,
       >
       > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:38:02PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote:
       > > I am having trouble building pdfedit and have the same
errors as posted
       > on:
       > >
       > >
       > http://www.mail-archive.com/pdfedit-support@...> [3]
       > >
       > > Could you please send me the required files to overcome
the errors?
       >
       > Could you try the current CVS version and use
       > --enable-poratability-flags=no
       > as configure parameter.
       >
       > > Thank you so much!
       > >
       > > Best,
       > >
       > > Xu Wang
       >
       > --
       > Michal Hocko
       >
       >
       >
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Workload
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       > application availability and disaster protection. Learn more
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       > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support
       >

           
       Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building
       From: Xu Wang  - 2011-04-16 16:30

       Attachments: Message as HTML      pdfedit.log     

           
       Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building
       From: Michal Hocko  - 2011-04-17 14:45

       On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:33:04PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote:
       > Michal,

       Hi,

       > 
       > Please note that my logfile was too large and thus it is
pending approval.
       > In the meantime, I will paste the message in that email
below and send an
       > email to your gmail with the log.
       > 
       > Thank you for the quick reply. I receive the same error.
Attached is my log
       > file.
       > 
       > I clicked on "Download GNU Tarball" from here:
       > http://pdfedit.cvs.sourceforge.net/pdfedit/ [5]

       This should be the current CVS snapshot.

       > 
       > I then ran the commands and received the output in
pdfedit.log

       This is strange because I do not see any compilation error in
the log.
       There are 2 errors:
       Using qmake: /usr/share/qt3/bin/qmake
       make[1]: ***
[/home/xuwang/source-builds/pdfedits/1/pdfedit/pdfedit/src/qsa/Makefile.qsa]
Error 1

       ar cqs libxpdf.a Annot.o Array.o BuiltinFont.o
BuiltinFontTables.o CMap.o Catalog.o CharCodeToUnicode.o Decrypt.o Dict.o
Error.o FontEncodingTables.o Function.o Gfx.o GfxFont.o GfxState.o
GlobalParams.o ImageOutputDev.o JArithmeticDecoder.o JBIG2Stream.o
JPXStream.o Lexer.o Link.o NameToCharCode.o Object.o Outline.o OutputDev.o
PDFDocEncoding.o PSOutputDev.o PSTokenizer.o Page.o Parser.o
PreScanOutputDev.o SecurityHandler.o SplashOutputDev.o Stream.o
TextOutputDev.o UnicodeMap.o UnicodeTypeTable.o XRef.o XpdfPluginAPI.o
encrypt_utils.o
       make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/xuwang/source-builds/pdfedits/1/pdfedit/pdfedit/src/xpdf/xpdf'
       make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/xuwang/source-builds/pdfedits/1/pdfedit/pdfedit/src/xpdf'
       make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/xuwang/source-builds/pdfedits/1/pdfedit/pdfedit/src'
       make: *** [source] Error 2

       The first one looks like a qmake issue when it is not able to
create
       src/qsa/Makefile.qsa for some reason which is not obvious from
the log.
       The second one is probably just a result of the first failure.
       Please note that we are using parallel building so the
compilation
       continues even if there is an error in other branch of
execution.

       I would try to go into src directory and
       make qsa

       It will most probably fails but it would be interesting to see
       why. Check out whether src/qsa/Makefile.qsa has been created.
If not
       then try to tweak src/qsa/configure script to print something
useful.

       > 
       > Here was my configure command:
       > ./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3
--enable-portability-flags=no
       > 
       > Should I use qt3 or qt4? I get the error with both.

       qt3.

       -- 
       Michal Hocko

 

Links:
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[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/pdfedit-support@...>
[2] http://pdfedit.cvs.sourceforge.net/pdfedit/
[3] http://www.mail-archive.com/pdfedit-support@...>
[4] http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev
[5] http://pdfedit.cvs.sourceforge.net/pdfedit/

Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:33:04PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote:
> Michal,

Hi,

> 
> Please note that my logfile was too large and thus it is pending approval.
> In the meantime, I will paste the message in that email below and send an
> email to your gmail with the log.
> 
> Thank you for the quick reply. I receive the same error. Attached is my log
> file.
> 
> I clicked on "Download GNU Tarball" from here:
> http://pdfedit.cvs.sourceforge.net/pdfedit/

This should be the current CVS snapshot.

> 
> I then ran the commands and received the output in pdfedit.log

This is strange because I do not see any compilation error in the log.
There are 2 errors:
Using qmake: /usr/share/qt3/bin/qmake
make[1]: *** [/home/xuwang/source-builds/pdfedits/1/pdfedit/pdfedit/src/qsa/Makefile.qsa] Error 1

ar cqs libxpdf.a Annot.o Array.o BuiltinFont.o BuiltinFontTables.o CMap.o Catalog.o CharCodeToUnicode.o Decrypt.o Dict.o Error.o FontEncodingTables.o Function.o Gfx.o GfxFont.o GfxState.o GlobalParams.o ImageOutputDev.o JArithmeticDecoder.o JBIG2Stream.o JPXStream.o Lexer.o Link.o NameToCharCode.o Object.o Outline.o OutputDev.o PDFDocEncoding.o PSOutputDev.o PSTokenizer.o Page.o Parser.o PreScanOutputDev.o SecurityHandler.o SplashOutputDev.o Stream.o TextOutputDev.o UnicodeMap.o UnicodeTypeTable.o XRef.o XpdfPluginAPI.o encrypt_utils.o
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/xuwang/source-builds/pdfedits/1/pdfedit/pdfedit/src/xpdf/xpdf'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/xuwang/source-builds/pdfedits/1/pdfedit/pdfedit/src/xpdf'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/xuwang/source-builds/pdfedits/1/pdfedit/pdfedit/src'
make: *** [source] Error 2

The first one looks like a qmake issue when it is not able to create
src/qsa/Makefile.qsa for some reason which is not obvious from the log.
The second one is probably just a result of the first failure.
Please note that we are using parallel building so the compilation
continues even if there is an error in other branch of execution.

I would try to go into src directory and
make qsa

It will most probably fails but it would be interesting to see
why. Check out whether src/qsa/Makefile.qsa has been created. If not
then try to tweak src/qsa/configure script to print something useful.

> 
> Here was my configure command:
> ./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3 --enable-portability-flags=no
> 
> Should I use qt3 or qt4? I get the error with both.

qt3.

-- 
Michal Hocko

[Pdfedit-support] make a box transparent

[Patrick D. <pat...@yo...>]

Hello,

Which parameters should I change to make a box (rectangle) transparent ?
For example like "highlight".

Thank.

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Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building

[Xu W. <xuw...@gm...>]

Michal,

Please note that my logfile was too large and thus it is pending approval.
In the meantime, I will paste the message in that email below and send an
email to your gmail with the log.

Thank you for the quick reply. I receive the same error. Attached is my log
file.

I clicked on "Download GNU Tarball" from here:
http://pdfedit.cvs.sourceforge.net/pdfedit/

I then ran the commands and received the output in pdfedit.log

Here was my configure command:
./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3 --enable-portability-flags=no

Should I use qt3 or qt4? I get the error with both.

Thank you,

Xu Wang

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Michal Hocko <ms...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:38:02PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote:
> > I am having trouble building pdfedit and have the same errors as posted
> on:
> >
> >
> http://www.mail-archive.com/pdf...@li.../msg00659.html
> >
> > Could you please send me the required files to overcome the errors?
>
> Could you try the current CVS version and use
> --enable-poratability-flags=no
> as configure parameter.
>
> > Thank you so much!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Xu Wang
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
>
>
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Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building

[Xu W. <xuw...@gm...>]

Michal,

Thank you for the quick reply. I receive the same error. Attached is my log
file.

I clicked on "Download GNU Tarball" from here:
http://pdfedit.cvs.sourceforge.net/pdfedit/

I then ran the commands and received the output in pdfedit.log

Here was my configure command:
./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3 --enable-portability-flags=no

Should I use qt3 or qt4? I get the error with both.

Thank you,

Xu Wang

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Michal Hocko <ms...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:38:02PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote:
> > I am having trouble building pdfedit and have the same errors as posted
> on:
> >
> >
> http://www.mail-archive.com/pdf...@li.../msg00659.html
> >
> > Could you please send me the required files to overcome the errors?
>
> Could you try the current CVS version and use
> --enable-poratability-flags=no
> as configure parameter.
>
> > Thank you so much!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Xu Wang
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top
> priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve
> application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting
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Re: [Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:38:02PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote:
> I am having trouble building pdfedit and have the same errors as posted on:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/pdf...@li.../msg00659.html
> 
> Could you please send me the required files to overcome the errors?

Could you try the current CVS version and use --enable-poratability-flags=no
as configure parameter.

> Thank you so much!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Xu Wang

-- 
Michal Hocko

[Pdfedit-support] pdfedit building

[Xu W. <xuw...@gm...>]

I am having trouble building pdfedit and have the same errors as posted on:

http://www.mail-archive.com/pdf...@li.../msg00659.html

Could you please send me the required files to overcome the errors?

Thank you so much!

Best,

Xu Wang

Re: [Pdfedit-support] Install Help for PDFEdit on Windows

[Alister H. <ali...@sy...>]

Hi,
Sorry for the late reply... and also if someone has already replied but
I missed it.

It sounds like you want to install a functioning pdfedit  - is that
right?

Please note:
1. It seems that you are trying to build the pdfedit "tools" package.
This does not build pdfedit.  It includes an "experimental windows gui",
which I think simply displays a pdf; it does not edit it.
2. I think there is a pre-built windows package of the pdfedit "tools",
anyway; you shouldn't need to built it.
3. To actually install pdfedit on windows, you need Cygwin.  For most
people I'd recommend using Linux instead, since Cygwin doesn't integrate
with Windows particularly well, and Linux is just better :)
BUT I understand there is currently work on a proper Windows version of
pdfedit, at http://code.google.com/p/pdfeditor/
4. If you don't really want to edit the content of pdf pages, but want
to combine pdfs, rearrange, delete, rotate and crop pages, there are
several Linux programs that you may find are more suitable than pdfedit.
I don't think any of them are easily installable on Windows yet.

Regards,
Alister

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ric...@RE... [mailto:Ric...@RE...]
> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2011 8:12 a.m.
> To: pdf...@li...
> Subject: [Pdfedit-support] Install Help for PDFEdit on Windows
> 
> I'm an evil XP user, fairly facile with software installs.  I tried to
> install from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/
> 
> following the README file attached, but ran into some issues:
> 
> 
> 
> 1.       Visual Source is now VS2010, not VS2008.  When I installed
> VS2010, the program appeared to
> 
> install completely, it asked for a reboot, and I gave it the reboot.
> But I cannot find VS Tools
> 
> in Start/All Programs, nor can I find the phrase "VS Tools" when I
> search my C: and D: drives.
> 
> 2.       For boostpro.com, there is no 2008 compiler, so I downloaded
> and installed BoostPro 1.46.
> 
> At least I can SEE Boost C++ Libraries folder when I click Start/All
> Programs
> 
> 3.       I selected ALL the twenty or so checkboxes for options, since
> "programoptions" was not visible.
> 
> 
> 
> Is there an easier way to get PDF Edit installed on a Windows XP
> machine?  Thanks!
> 
> 
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[Pdfedit-support] Install Help for PDFEdit on Windows

[<Ric...@RE...>]

Win32 pdfedit* release
---------------------------
The main purpose is to demonstrate the usage of the underlying pdfedit library. Currently, there are several tools which can be used from command line and a proof of concept for win32 GUI. 

Pdfedit Win32 release is beta. It also means that all executables are compiled in debug mode and therefore are slower and bigger; however, the functionality is the same.  

We use Visual Studio 2008 for building and CRT is statically linked. This means that no dll hell/incorrect runtime environment problems occur but there is significant file size overhead.

Problems
---------------------------
Please, feel free to report any problems on pdf...@li... or visit https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/ for more information.


Step-by-step instructions on how to compile pdfedit on clean PC  
---------------------------

== pdfedit ==
1. download the sources (already done when you read this)

== VS 2008 ==
2. download and install VS 2008! C++ Express Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/ 

== boost ==
3. install boost
http://www.boostpro.com/download/
- select 2008 compiler
- select optional packages - programoptions  should be enough
3.1 open VS Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->VC++ Directories and add boost directory to 
Include files: (e.g. c:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_44\)
Library files: (e.g. c:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_44\lib\)
4. try to build test_boost 
if NOT  OK go to #3 and try again?
if OK continue

== zlib ==
5. download e.g. zlib-1.2.5. sources and unpack it somewhere and
http://www.zlib.net/
5.1 open VS Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->VC++ Directories and add boost directory to 
Include files: (e.g. g:\private\work\projects\pdfedit\zlib\zlib-1.2.3\)
6. build test_zlib
if NOT  OK go to #5 and try again?
if OK continue

==freetype==
7. download freetype and unpack it somewhere
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.3.12/ft2312.zip/download
7.1 open VS Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->VC++ Directories and add boost directory to 
Include files: (e.g. g:\private\work\projects\pdfedit\freetype\include\)
8. build test_freetype2
if NOT  OK go to #5 and try again?
if OK continue

==libpng==
8. download png and create libraries libpng/libpngd
the same process as above

Select Platform/Configuration Debug-Win32 / Win32 and build it

Troubleshooting
---------------------------

  1) problems with zlib/freetype:
  
  sol #1) if you want to compile it against library versions of zlib/freetype you have to use the same Runtime libraries (MT, MTd, ...). If you changed it you have to change it everywhere.
  
  sol #2) try to build those yourselves
  
  2) problems with gui.installer
  download python, 7z and add it to PATH
    

[Pdfedit-support] Adding hyperlinks with tooltips to a PDF

[William W. <flu...@gm...>]

I have a PDF document which I want to add hyperlinks and tooltips to.

My goal is for a number of hyperlinks to be added to the text, each of which
links to some location in the document, but when the mouse is hovered over
the link, a brief summary of the destination appears in a popup instead (so
that the user doesn't have to actually follow the link).  Basically, the
same thing that could easily be done with onmouseover in HTML and that a
million webpages do.  The trouble is that I can't figure out how to make
this work in the PDF document.

I've looked at Link annotations, and they have the "Contents" key defined
for the Link annotation dictionary, however, Adobe viewer does not display
the contents of the Link's Contents key.

I tried adding the "PA" dictionary with the required keys to the Link
annotation as (I think) was suggested here:
http://programming.itags.org/tex/134379/
but nothing happened.

I've looked at Square annotations, and while they work great for the popup
summary, there doesn't appear to be any way to make them do anything when
clicked.  Also, they leave small icons at their location, but I might be
able to fix that (it's clear from the text where the links are, the icons
aren't needed or wanted).

Text annotations used alone worked similar to Square, they just looked
different.  They also had icons associated with them, but those can be made
invisible.

Putting a Link and a Square in the same place results in the Link not
functioning.

I tried putting an Additional Action dictionary in the Link annotation to do
something on mouse enter/exit, but it turns out those are only supported for
Widget and Screen.

I thought I might be able to replace the Link annotation with a pair of
annotations, a Screen to define the actions and a Text or Square to hold the
popup.  My text annotations ignored the hidden flag unfortunately and were
always visible, even if it was set on them manually.  Oddly, they obeyed the
NoView flag - but there is no way to control the NoView flag from an
annotation event (ToggleNoView is not usable here as the Text annotation has
to be shrunk very small to make room for the Screen annotation that actually
has the working link in it).

The promisingly named Popup annotation seems to be compatible only with
"markup" annotations, and neither Screen nor Link are considered markup
annotations, thus I can not use it.  (Also, I'm not sure if editing the
Popup can be disabled).

When used with the Screen widget, my Square annotations just flickered
briefly when the mouse first touched the area, they didn't stay visible.

FreeText seems like it will obey the Hidden flag but it is a lot more
trouble because I need to specify the exact location where the text appears,
and I don't want to.  All the other popup annotations just kind of picked a
place to display the text and it looked fine.  Also, I haven't yet
absolutely confirmed that it works with a Screen widget to hide and show it.

I am running out of ideas.  I would think that what I am doing should be
possible within the PDF format, but is it really?  Does anybody have other
suggestions, or an unencrypted PDF that does this already, that I could
examine?

[Pdfedit-support] accessing colour information (not with pdfedit)

[Alister H. <ali...@sy...>]

Sorry everyone, this might be misusing the list ☺:
I think I remember people asking recently about accessing colour information with pdfedit, and being told it is impossible.
I thought I'd mention that it is possible using podofo:
http://domseichter.blogspot.com/2011/01/modifying-and-analyzing-colors-in-pdf.html

Regards,
Alister

Re: [Pdfedit-support] Q: How to Bypass Password Prompt

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:40:45AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:23:52PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > Hi All,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > 
> > I have a document that was generated with Apache FOP Version 0.95 (PDF
> > 1.4 format). The document is *NOT* password protected.
> > 
> > The document opens fine - without a password - using Evince/Document
> > Viewer 2.32.0 (Ubuntu) and Acrobat Reader (Windows). However, other
> > programs are prompting for a password. Other programs include pdfedit
> > (Ubuntu) and Foxit Reader (Windows).
> 

I am just looking at the bug you have referred to in other email
(https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50932) but I do not
think this is relevant. Double ID entry shouldn't matter much.
I have tried it with a simple document and it didn't make any
difference. Maybe there are other things that have to be set...
Could you share the document or send it to my privately?
-- 
Michal Hocko

Re: [Pdfedit-support] Q: How to Bypass Password Prompt

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:23:52PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi All,

Hi,

> 
> I have a document that was generated with Apache FOP Version 0.95 (PDF
> 1.4 format). The document is *NOT* password protected.
> 
> The document opens fine - without a password - using Evince/Document
> Viewer 2.32.0 (Ubuntu) and Acrobat Reader (Windows). However, other
> programs are prompting for a password. Other programs include pdfedit
> (Ubuntu) and Foxit Reader (Windows).

We are prompting for a password if a document contains Encrypt
dictionary. This doesn't necesarily means that it is protected by a
password (it can be empty) but we are not checking that.
Well we might try to enter an empty password but please note that such a
protected documents are read only in PDFedit...

> 
> Is there anyway to force PDFEDIT to skip the password prompt and open
> the document?

I do not think so, but maybe you can script it somehow.

> 
> Jeff

-- 
Michal Hocko

[Pdfedit-support] Q: How to Bypass Password Prompt

[Jeffrey W. <nol...@gm...>]

Hi All,

I have a document that was generated with Apache FOP Version 0.95 (PDF
1.4 format). The document is *NOT* password protected.

The document opens fine - without a password - using Evince/Document
Viewer 2.32.0 (Ubuntu) and Acrobat Reader (Windows). However, other
programs are prompting for a password. Other programs include pdfedit
(Ubuntu) and Foxit Reader (Windows).

Is there anyway to force PDFEDIT to skip the password prompt and open
the document?

Jeff

[Pdfedit-support] PDFEdit XML Conversion

[Titusz P. <ti...@we...>]

Hello everybody..

 

i just found PDF-Edit and I am thrilled with the PDF to XML conversion
capabilities.

The xml output looks very good. The only thing I am missing is Font-Color
information.

Is there a reason why this is not included?

 

Is there a way to use the PDF to XML conversion via command line. If yes it
would

be great if somebody could give me some directions about this.

 

Thanks & Best wishes

                                Titusz

Re: [Pdfedit-support] How do I obtain the bounding box values?

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:33:40AM +0000, Jozef Misutka wrote:
> 
> hi erik,
> 
> 
> i haven't had time to look into your script but i think the requested functionality is implemented in 
> dialogs.qs in function highlightingSelectedText
> 
>  	var _op = firstSelected();
> 	var _firstTextOp = undefined;
> 	var _rectangles = [];
> 	while (_op) {
> 		if (isTextOp( _op )) {

I guess you have to consider graphical operators as well.
-- 
Michal Hocko