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

[Matthias Kramm]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:18:36PM +0200, Marc Hämmerle <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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)..

I don't know of a way to do that using Flash player's standard
text selection logic. 
Maybe it's possible to do your own text highlighting? 
Rendering the highlighting boxes is probably easy- getting the 
glyph's coordinates might be more difficult, but 
TextSnapshot.getTextRunInfo() looks promising.

HTH,

Matthias