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Going the other way is terrible too. I had to work on making text in pdfs that our software generated selectable and searchable. PDF simply doesn't have any way
by thayne 6y ago
Going the other way is terrible too. I had to work on making text in pdfs that our software generated selectable and searchable. PDF simply doesn't have any way to communicate the semantics to the viewer, so things like columns, sidebars, drop letters, etc. Would all confuse viewers. It didn't help that every pdf viewer uses its own heuristics to figure out how text is supposed to be ordered. Ironically, Acrobat was one of the worst at figuring out the intended layout.
- LoSboccacc 6y agoI've worked at a html > pdf engine, I don't remember that much issues with text itself beyond making the pdf metrics the same as html so that linke breaks occurred on the same places. did you write the column one after another (first all left, then all right) or going left right line of text then top down?
- thayne 6y agoIt was a few years ago, but I think it was all one column then another. And it worked ok in some viewers, but not others.