Re: Storing PDF selection

FROM : Laurent Cerveau
DATE : Sat May 17 15:13:55 2008

On May 16, 2008, at 9:40 PM, John Calhoun wrote:
> On May 15, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Laurent Cerveau wrote:

>> If I have a PDF View , select part of it and get the 
>> currentSelection, showing it tells something like
>> Page index = 2, Range = (0, 21]
>>
>> However I do not see where I could get the range of the 
>> PDFSelection and later recreate a selection with this value

>
> Not the range, but you can get the bounds for each page the 
> selection covers:  -[PDFSelection boundsForPage: (PDFPage *) page].
>
> To "unflatten" you can call [PDFPage selectionForRect:] for each 
> partial selection you saved off.  Selections can be added then 
> [PDFSelection addSelection: (PDFSelection *) selection].
>
> Yeah, a little hacky....


Indeed this is ....and it fails. When I call                 
   PDFSelection *aSel = [aPage selectionForRect:aRec];
the PDFKit returns me empty selection

More to dig ...

Many Thanks

laurent