Difference between revisions of "User:Joekidd/OpenOffice.org/Internship/PDFImport/Tasks/Improving char spaces"

Revision as of 19:12, 21 September 2010

Current way of importing text has some problems with spaces between chars - they are counted in the way that not always works correctly. Sometimes there are spaces in places we don't expect and other time there don't occur in places they should be.

Solution

The code before modification was quite complicated and I still do not understand what was the author's intention. I made it easier and there is no more spaces in places they are not expected but it still fails sometimes. So I would like to go a bit deeper in it to make it working every time. Problem is quite complex and depends on kind of used pdf fonts. Moreover I do not except reaching back to the solution I replaced, cose spaces were add more often in there, but at least lines were divided correctly: I mean if there is a big gap beetwen two text elements in one line, there should be two lines of text in the same line of document. If such a condition will not be met there will be also problem with proper paragraph import.