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| author | Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com> | 2022-07-06 23:42:10 -0600 |
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| committer | Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com> | 2022-07-07 01:43:20 -0600 |
| commit | a8ad369e77f92a459940f9f0030c1d9bd2b64899 (patch) | |
| tree | 25479471c4931397356e36bc89ea92a7bb9e5a60 | |
| parent | dd7b6d47ad7dc8c15319674dda4b45cc10282132 (diff) | |
add disclaimer about copying text in a PDF to the limitations section
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/modules/ROOT/pages/features.adoc | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/features.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/features.adoc index c9e96ecc..8b088a76 100644 --- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/features.adoc +++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/features.adoc @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ [#limitations] == Known limitations +* Copying text from a PDF in a way that preserves the original line wrapping is not reliable, particularly in code blocks. +To achieve proper rendering, non-visible characters may either be interpretted, inserted, or dropped. +This is primarily a limitation of the PDF format, in which text is broken into fragments and positioned at absolute coordinates on the canvas. * Footnotes are always displayed as endnotes (at the bottom of the last page of a chapter for books; at the bottom of the last page of the document for all other doctypes). *Footnotes cannot be displayed at the current bottom of the page because the PDF generator does not support content reflows* (see {url-project-issues}/85#issuecomment-577412975[#85^] for reasoning). * Table cells that exceed the height of a single page are truncated with a warning (see https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn-table/issues/41[prawn-table#41^]). |