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No, it's entirely straight forward to simply remove any curves and glyphs that intersect with a region, even if all text was converted to paths; any vector grap
by cwillu 2y ago
No, it's entirely straight forward to simply remove any curves and glyphs that intersect with a region, even if all text was converted to paths; any vector graphics editor can do it.
PDF documents do not reflow.
- IshKebab 2y agoIt's definitely not as simple as you're suggesting. PDF viewers are not vector graphics editors so they'd have to implement the whole intersection algorithms, and even though PDFs don't reflow they can still have text so now you need to figure out if you delete "is" from "this is hard" you need to calculate where "hard" is. Definitely doable but hardly straight forward.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoI think their point might be that some PDF editors had this functionality for years now ?
- IshKebab 2y agoI don't think so. Which PDF editors have this feature?
- noisem4ker 2y agoAcrobat (not Reader), Foxit, others I tried. It's not impossible, although the result may vary. PDFs, inheriting from PostScript, do have the concept of fonts and text strings, which can be edited. They're not just a soup of vector shapes.