[poppler] Poppler newbie

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 26 de desembre de 2012, a les 18:38:56, Jaydeep Solanki va 
escriure:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > El Dimecres, 26 de desembre de 2012, a les 03:12:14, Jaydeep Solanki va
> > 
> > escriure:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > I have just started with poppler & I'm quite happy with its simplicity.
> > > I'm using poppler-qt4, and I have got some doubts..
> > > 
> > > 1) While using Poppler::Page::search(...), poppler doesn't seem to be
> > > following the column order.
> > > I mean if a document has a two column layout, then while search it
> > 
> > doesn't
> > 
> > > follow that layout.
> > > "Correct me if I'm missing something.."
> > 
> > No it doesn't.
> 
> As Okular supports it, please point me to the implementation of this
> feature.

textpage.cpp

> > > 2) I want to know more about annotations, but can't find any example or
> > > documentation.
> > > It would be really nice of you, if you can help me out with this.
> > 
> > Okular code, in which you've already worked, it's full of examples. The
> > documentation is in the header files, mostly poppler-annotation.h
> 
> Thanks.
> Currently I display pdf in a QLabel, using pixmap, which doesn't allow
> me to select text, however I use QRubberBand to select a QRect and get the
> text out of it, but that's kinda ugly. What does Okular use for text
> selection?

Have a look at the pagepainter methods.

If you are going to keep asking about Okular i suggest you move this to the 
okular-devel mailing list.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Jaydeep
> 
> > Albert
> > 
> > > Thanks :)
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Jaydeep Solanki
> > 
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