Copy-paste not working for rendered glyphs

[diegomura]

As explained here #15, copy pasting text from documents created with the TextRendeder is not working. Devon pointed out the cause of the issue, but it will require q bit more research from my side to solve it

[diegomura]

Seems to me that this can be solved by passing by glyphs with the correct codePoints field to pdfkit _addGlyphs. However, the fontkit string-indices branch erases this field from Glyph.

@devongovett why did you do that? If present, we can use codePoints to fill in unicode values on pdfkit side and solve this issue, right?

[diegomura]

@devongovett sorry for bothering you! But I'm stuck in here. How can I do to access a glyph codePoints now that it's not part of Glyph attributes anymore? I need this data to fix copy-pasting on pdfkit and encode glyphs for standard fonts. Thanks in advance!

[devongovett]

You'd need the original string that the glyphs were constructed with, and the string indexes of the glyphs. Then you can just slice the string to get the code points.

[diegomura]

Thanks for your answer!
So you suggest to pass codePoints to the _addGlyphs method?

[devongovett]

yep