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<td>medium
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title="NEW --- - pdftocairo - Flag to disable text drawing"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65877">65877</a>
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>poppler-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>pdftocairo - Flag to disable text drawing
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>ryan.fox@upverter.com
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Component</th>
<td>utils
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<th>Product</th>
<td>poppler
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<pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=80975" name="attach_80975" title="Patch to add a flag to disable text drawing. Based on the code in the 0.23.2 release.">attachment 80975</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=80975&action=edit" title="Patch to add a flag to disable text drawing. Based on the code in the 0.23.2 release.">[details]</a></span>
Patch to add a flag to disable text drawing. Based on the code in the 0.23.2
release.
I needed to hack pdftocairo to allow me to disable the text drawing, and I
thought it could be something other people might benefit from, so I'm
presenting a tiny patch to add a flag for it.
Background: Cairo's SVG backend doesn't draw text as text; it creates shapes
for each letter. (See <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW --- - Make Text in generated SVG file selectable"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=38516">bug 38516</a>) I'm using the output from pdftocairo for the
structure of a PDF, rather than the visual representation, so the actual text
is important to me, as well as all of the shapes. I can get sufficient text
information from `pdftohtml -xml` for this. To prevent losing non-letter
glyphs, I need to prevent the drawing of the text rather than just discarding
all of the glyphs.</pre>
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