Martin Sutton
HI all.
Does anyone have any experience with the paperback program?
I'm trying to read a pdf with NVDA but virtually all the spaces between the words seem to have disappeared.
Thanks in advance.
Mar 3 at 9:34amWeb
Show threadDay GarwoodMar 3
@martin @TheQuinbox Any ideas on this?
Show threadBrian HartgenMar 3
@martin It's not just an NVDA issue. Unfortunately the latest version is doing this a lot, so I have had to return to an earlier build.
Show threadQuinMar 3
@martin Can you send me the pdf? I rewrote the PDF parser recently and have gotten a couple reports of it breaking some PDFs
Show threadMartin SuttonMar 3
@TheQuinbox https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/paf5ae7d8b6ibe7bgo917/book.pdf?rlkey=dm94mpvtsxdu4xvmsrt5tjhaa&dl=1
Show threadx0Mar 3
@TheQuinbox @martin It also did this with a mathematical paper I fed it, which I loaded to see if it was using scans or text. Some engines do this, pdfium can do this too I think. Becuase some PDFs literally don't encode spaces in the text stream but just use rendering tricks by basically nudging the cursor to the right while drawing the glyphs. You'd have to heuristically detect that kind of thing. IDK if even Adobe does that.
Show threadaryanMar 3
@x0 @TheQuinbox @martin Yeah i am working on this from like the last 2 3 hours and this is what seems to be happening here. Edge renders it properly though so i was trying to make it work, but na.