XPDF Documentation

[Paul Dupuis]

To put XPDF in selection more, use

XPDFViewer_ChooseMouseMode "Document1",pMode -- "browse", "selection", 
"image"

To select a range of text on (or across) page(s), use

XPDFViewer_Select "Document1",item 1 of tPDFPageRef,item 2 of 
tPDFPageRef,item 3 of tPDFPageRef,item 4 of tPDFPageRef

See the documentation for what the 4 items are above, but it's basically 
startPageNum, startCharPositionNum, endPageNum, endCharPositionNum

However, XPDF was not designed to get the values of form fields. Unless 
something was added by Monte in the intervening years since Researchware 
turned the XPDF external over to Livecode, I don't think there is a way 
to get form data.

In any case, Monte at livecode is the definitive expert who could answer 
this questions for the XPDF external and the PDF Widget (if they added 
forms capability to that newer effort).


On 3/20/2025 7:44 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi all.=20
>
> I am able to load a fillable PDF form, and I see the actual form data, all =
> well and good. There are functions that allow me to get the selection, but =
> there is no way to select the text! I just get the hand icon for scrolling =
> the page by dragging. Is there a way to switch to a selection tool?=20
>
> Bob S=
>
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