User Guide

ARTS PDF Split Pro™ Guide
Assistant
Figure 10. How the human eye sees the text
Figure 11. How ARTS PDF Split Pro™ sees the text (zoomed to 200%)
Figure 10 and 11 show the difference between how the human eyes sees text on the
page, and how ARTS PDF Split Pro™ sees it. In figure 11, the red text is what ARTS PDF
Split Pro™ sees, and the text behind in and in figure 10 is how it appears to the user on
the page.
5.2.8. Viewing Text Runs
To view text runs, select ‘Show Run Start’ from the ARTS PDF Split Pro™ Assistant
menu, or click on the close button located on the ARTS PDF Split Pro™ Assistant toolbar.
Figure 12. ‘Show Run Start’ toolbar button
ARTS PDF Split Pro™ Assistant allows the user to see where the start of each text run
starts on the page. A small red cross represents the start of each text run. This can be
seen in the diagram below (displaying text runs in ARTS PDF Split Pro™ Assistant).
Figure 13. Displaying text runs in split pro assistant
Within a PDF file, text is drawn by moving to a specific location on the page and drawing
a line of text, which is formally known as a run of text. What appears to be one line of
text can actually be made of a number of runs of text put together.
In ARTS PDF Split Pro™ Assistant, if a line of text begins inside a rectangle that you
have created on your screen then the entire run of text is considered inside that
rectangle. The rectangle that has been drawn in figure 13 contains two runs of text
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