Bug 27197

What is your use case?

Would you be able to contribute a patch?

(In reply to comment #1)
> What is your use case?
> 
> Would you be able to contribute a patch?
> 

In qt4/src/poppler-page.cc,
  in QList<TextBox*> Page::textList(Rotation rotate) const,
     in for (int i = 0; i < word_list->getLength(); i++) {
       after text_box->m_data->charBBoxes.reserve(word->getLength());
put :
text_box->fontName=QString(word->getFontName()->getCString());

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In poppler-qt4.h
  in the TextBox class
add

private:
QString fontName;

public:
QString getFontName();


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Use Case:

I want to parse scientific pdf articles, and the font would be a useful information.

That patch is obviously a no go for a lot of reasons, moreover if we are going to give that info i'd prefer to return a Poppler::FontInfo instead of a string with the font name. The problem is that extracting this info is a bit slow and the font info is probably not used by lots of people so i wonder if you'd be happy enough if we added a new class TextBoxFont (or something like that) and a new method that returned a list of them in Poppler::Page

(In reply to comment #3)
> That patch is obviously a no go for a lot of reasons, moreover if we are going
> to give that info i'd prefer to return a Poppler::FontInfo instead of a string
> with the font name. The problem is that extracting this info is a bit slow and
> the font info is probably not used by lots of people so i wonder if you'd be
> happy enough if we added a new class TextBoxFont (or something like that) and a
> new method that returned a list of them in Poppler::Page

Yes it would be great having a new class TextBoxFont as you said and the new method returning a list of them. With this feature I would compile my application for Windows :)

Is there a way to get this information yet? I'd like to detect italic and bold...

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