I saw too late that the OP went off-list.
This was my answer, accidentally sent to the OP personally.
John Renfrew wrote:
> So I now have
>
> stamper.addAnnotation(PdfAnnotation.createLink(writer, new Rectangle
> (35,60,30,20), PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_NONE, "mailto:[email protected]";));
>
> or
>
> stamper.addAnnotation(PdfAnnotation.createLink(stamper, new Rectangle
> (35,60,30,20), PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_NONE, "mailto:[email protected]";));
>
> neither work. But am I getting warmer????
Your first reflex should be to look at the API docs:
http://1t3xt.info/api/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfAnnotation.html#createLink%28com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter,%20com.lowagie.text.Rectangle,%20com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfName,%20java.lang.String%29
You're using a createLink() method that creates a link to a "named
destination". Is "mailto:[email protected]"; a named destination?
No, it isn't! So that's not going to work.
You should use something like this to create the PdfAnnotation:
PdfAnnotation link = PdfAnnotation.createLink(writer,
new Rectangle(35,60,30,20), PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_NONE,
new PdfAction("mailto:[email protected]";));
There are other ways to do it, but this works.
Furthermore, you're still not telling the stamper on which page
you want to add the annotation. You have something like:
stamper.addAnnotation(link);
But that doesn't even compile!
It should be:
stamper.addAnnotation(link, 1);
In attachment you can find a working example.
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import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.Rectangle;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfAction;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfAnnotation;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
public class AddLink {
/**
* Creates a PDF file: hello.pdf
* @param args no arguments needed
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException,
IOException {
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, baos);
document.open();
document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World!"));
document.close();
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(baos.toByteArray());
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new
FileOutputStream("test.pdf"));
PdfWriter writer = stamper.getWriter();
PdfAnnotation link = PdfAnnotation.createLink(writer,
new Rectangle(35,60,30,20),
PdfAnnotation.HIGHLIGHT_NONE,
new
PdfAction("mailto:[email protected]?subject=stuff";));
stamper.addAnnotation(link, 1);
stamper.close();
}
}
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