Bug 15906

Summary:	support column-reading mode for small screens
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Brian Ewins <Brian.Ewins>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	patch to support querying column bboxes

Description Brian Ewins 2008-05-12 04:30:22 UTC

Created attachment 16481 [details] [review]
patch to support querying column bboxes

On ebook readers, reading a4 pdfs with columns (like these http://www.guardian.co.uk/g24) is awkward, but the experience can be improved by following columns identified by poppler at higher zoom. (Adobe use a different solution, reflowing the document). The information needed to do this is already available in poppler, but not exposed in the API.

ipdf, the viewer on the IRex Iliad, has been patched to work this way by users on the IRex forums, but I notice the patch hasn't appeared upstream. Since it might be useful for other embedded viewers, here it is. Original author of this patch is 'wpd', see forum post here:
http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=1953&sid=5e5e77200c56ad254dbd9d9531cf77f3

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2008-05-12 06:40:50 UTC

Will be on next poppler feature release (aprox 3/4 months)

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