Re: Spaces (char 32) in output of PDFBox

[Duane Nickull <du...@technoracle-systems.com>]

You mean you just posted here without reading through the 1700 page
specification, 23 auxiliary PDF specifications and over 225,000 pages of
reference materials just looking for a quick answer?

;-)

AFAIK, I am pretty sure dec 32 was supported in PostScript back as early
as 1996.  I believe that made it into PDF but it is not considered a
glyph, rather a char.  My Adobe days memory is fading rapidly but I do
believe it is a legal character.  Below you describe a question.  Is there
a context to it (i.e. - a decision required to be made)?  I might be able
to help if there is a specific reason this is required.  Feel free to ping
me off list if it is more appropriate.

Cheers!

Duane Nickull
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On 2012-11-29 3:09 PM, "Peter Murray-Rust" <pm...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>I am analysing running text by trapping the output of PDFBox through
>org.apache.pdfbox.util.TextPosition through a subclass of
>org.apache.pdfbox.pdfviewer.PageDrawer. I notice that there are explicit
>characters for spaces (char 32). Sometimes there can be repeated spaces
>and
>even a "paragraph" consisting only of a space. I was unaware that PDF
>supported spaces - are these coming from the original document or are they
>generated in PDFBox from calculations of character spacing and width?
>
>TIA for help.
>
>P.
>
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>Peter Murray-Rust
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>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>University of Cambridge
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