pdftron::PDF::Highlights Class Reference

#include <Highlights.h>

Public Types
typedef pdftron::PDF::Highlight	Highlight

Public Member Functions
	Highlights ()
	~Highlights ()
	Highlights (const Highlights &hlts)
Highlights &	operator= (const Highlights &hlts)
void	Load (const UString &file_name)
void	Save (const UString &file_name)
UString	SaveToString ()
void	Add (const Highlights &hlts)
void	Clear ()
void	Begin (PDFDoc &doc)
bool	HasNext () const
void	Next ()
int	GetCurrentPageNumber () const
std::vector< QuadPoint >	GetCurrentQuads () const
int	GetCurrentQuads (const double *&quads) const
TextRange	GetCurrentTextRange () const
void	Destroy ()
ptrdiff_t	GetHandleInternal ()
	Highlights (TRN_Highlights impl)

Static Public Member Functions
static Highlights *	CreateInternal (ptrdiff_t impl)

Public Attributes
TRN_Highlights	mp_highlights

Friends
class	PDFView
class	PDFViewCtrl
class	TextSearch

Detailed Description

Highlights is used to store the necessary information and perform certain tasks in accordance with Adobe's Highlight standard, whose details can be found at:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/HighlightFileFormat.pdf

In a nutshell, the Highlights class maintains a set of highlights. Each highlight contains three pieces of information:

page: the number of the page this Highlight is on; position: the start position (text offset) of this Highlight; length: the length of this Highlight.

Possible use case scenarios for Highlights include:

• Load a Highlight file (in XML format) and highlight the corresponding texts in the viewer (e.g., if the viewer is implemented using PDFViewCtrl, it can be achieved simply by calling PDFViewCtrl::SelectByHighlights() method);
• Save the Highlight information (e.g., constructed by the TextSearch class) to an XML file for external uses.

Note:

• The Highlights class does not maintain the corresponding PDF document for its highlights. It is the user's responsibility to match them up.
• The Highlights class ensures that each highlight it maintains is unique (no two highlights have the same page, position and length values).
• The current implementation of Highlights only supports the 'characters' encoding for 'units' as described in the format; the 'words' encoding is not supported at this point.

For a sample code, please take a look at the TextSearchTest sample project.

Definition at line 70 of file Highlights.h.

Member Typedef Documentation

typedef pdftron::PDF::Highlight pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Highlight

Definition at line 77 of file Highlights.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Highlights

(

)

Constructor and destructor.

pdftron::PDF::Highlights::~Highlights

(

)

pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Highlights

(

const Highlights &

hlts

)

Copy constructor.

pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Highlights ( TRN_Highlights  impl )

inline

Definition at line 191 of file Highlights.h.

Member Function Documentation

void pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Add

(

const Highlights &

hlts

)

Add highlights.

Parameters

hlts	the Highlights instance containing the highlights to be added.

void pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Begin

(

PDFDoc &

doc

)

Rewind the internal pointer to the first highlight.

Parameters

doc	the PDF document to which the highlights correspond.

Note

the PDF document can be a dummy document unless GetCurrentQuads() is to be called.

void pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Clear

(

)

Clear the current Highlight information in the class.

static Highlights* pdftron::PDF::Highlights::CreateInternal ( ptrdiff_t  impl )

static

void pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Destroy

(

)

Frees the native memory of the object.

int pdftron::PDF::Highlights::GetCurrentPageNumber

(

)

const

Get the page number of the current highlight.

std::vector<QuadPoint> pdftron::PDF::Highlights::GetCurrentQuads

(

)

const

Get the corresponding quadrangles of the current highlight.

Parameters

quads

the output pointer to the resulting quadrangles.

Returns

the number of the resulting quadrangles. Each quadrangle has eight doubles (x1, y1), (x2, y2), (x3, y3), (x4, y4) denoting the four vertices in counter-clockwise order.

Note

the 'quads' array is owned by the current Highlights and does not need to be explicitly released. Since a highlight may correspond to multiple quadrangles, e.g., when it crosses a line, the number of resulting quadrangles may be larger than 1.

int pdftron::PDF::Highlights::GetCurrentQuads

(

const double *&

quads

)

const

TextRange pdftron::PDF::Highlights::GetCurrentTextRange

(

)

const

Get a TextRange object that represents the current highlight.

ptrdiff_t pdftron::PDF::Highlights::GetHandleInternal

(

)

bool pdftron::PDF::Highlights::HasNext

(

)

const

Query if there is any subsequent highlight after the current highlight.

void pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Load

(

const UString &

file_name

)

Load the Highlight information from a file. Note that the pre-existing Highlight information is discarded.

Parameters

file_name

the name of the file to load from.

void pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Next

(

)

Move the current highlight to the next highlight.

Highlights& pdftron::PDF::Highlights::operator=

(

const Highlights &

hlts

)

Assignment operator.

void pdftron::PDF::Highlights::Save

(

const UString &

file_name

)

Save the current Highlight information in the class to a file.

Parameters

file_name

the name of the file to save to.

UString pdftron::PDF::Highlights::SaveToString

(

)

Save the current Highlight information in the class to an XML string.

Returns

the highlight XML file contents as a string

Friends And Related Function Documentation

friend class PDFView

friend

Definition at line 72 of file Highlights.h.

friend class PDFViewCtrl

friend

Definition at line 73 of file Highlights.h.

friend class TextSearch

friend

Definition at line 74 of file Highlights.h.

Member Data Documentation

TRN_Highlights pdftron::PDF::Highlights::mp_highlights

Definition at line 189 of file Highlights.h.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• PDF/Highlights.h