Re: [Tockit-general] New Docco test version

[Peter B. <pe...@pe...>]

Bastian Wormuth wrote:

>Tuesday, April 06, 2004, 2:04:26 AM, you wrote:
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>PB> Bastian Wormuth wrote:
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>PB> First test I did was running against the ICFCA04 CD. I got 3/4 hits, the
>PB> ToscanaJ manual failed. There seems to be some problem with the OOo 
>PB> PDFs, even though the Elba manual worked. I attached some stuff to this 
>PB> bug in PDFbox:
>PB> - 
>PB> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=860027&group_id=78314&atid=552832
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>PB> I could reproduce the problem with the BIS example, though. 
>PB> Unfortunately it is a feature, not a bug -- see the last entry for 0.6.3 
>PB> on this list:
>PB> - http://www.csh.rit.edu/~ben/projects/pdfbox/news.html
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>PB> Acrobat Reader disallows copying text out of these documents, too -- 
>PB> although it does allow text selection, whatever that is good for if you 
>PB> can't copy it.
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>PB> So this is actually correct behaviour. Not that I really want it, though 
>PB> :-( But I don't think I want to hack PDFbox either -- which shouldn't be 
>PB> too hard (a diff between the source of 0.6.2 and 0.6.3 would most likely 
>PB> help a lot), but while I disagree with this type of secretiveness, I 
>PB> still think we should respect that.
>
>... mmmh, so what to do ? PDFbox disallows copying text, but that's
>not what we want, we just want to search for some text. Isn't there
>any way around it ? Or couldn't we just use the old version ?
>  
>
These particular PDFs are encoded in a way that text is not supposed to 
be extracted -- neither by copy&paste nor by tools. It seems the old 
PDFbox ignored that, the new one respects this. Of course there is most 
likely a way around it, but I don't think it is important at the moment 
-- and I won't remove the old plugin, which you can still use.

One thing I should do is adding better feedback, though. At the moment 
you have to hack the run-docco.bat and turn the javaw call into java, 
then check the output on the command line. Not nice, but I don't think 
I'll fix that in this version.

  Peter