Friday, March 27, 2009
Words, lines and blocks
The text system now tracks individual words and lines so that we can
a) generate the wordmap directly from within Rubberstamp for consistency with the searchable text, and
b) handle hyphenation intelligently at the ends of lines.
Generated wordmaps are generally fine - a couple of pixels off here and there but definitely useable, and now there's just one place to fix bugs.
That problematic PDF is now just about tamed. We can extract the text and place highlights over search results.
The last things to do before release are
1. extract the link annotations into the map files.
2. profile and optimise the code a bit. It's not yet refined for speed.
Big switch will get thrown on Monday.
In the meantime, the weekend.
T
- posted by Tim Bruce @ 6:16 PM
