In fact, following this up myself, I think this might be more a general PDF
issue, having also tried and failed to do what I want to do by manually
inserting and extracting pages in Acrobat.
Googling, I found that this http://forums.adobe.com/message/2013939 describes
the problem I am having.
It seems I cannot create an internal anchor reference in one PDF file and a
corresponding internal anchor name in another PDF file and then merge the two
files and get the anchor reference in what was the first file to go to the
anchor name in what was the second file. I’m using Word 2007 to generate the
PDFs and it works in MS Word (e.g. copying text with bookmark/links from one
document to another) but seems not in PDF. So maybe internal anchors only work
in the same PDF file.
What I am actually trying to do is to preserve a Word table of contents
hyperlink. It goes to a location like _toc1234567 so I thought if I added that
as a destination anchor in a new PDF file, Word’s hyperlinked table of contents
would go to that destination when I merged the PDF files.
Would be grateful if anyone can think of a way to effectively mimic an anchor’s
destination using iText, otherwise I’ll have to stick to PDF bookmarks as links.
John
From: HJT Research
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 6:51 PM
To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [iText-questions] Adding a destination anchor to an existing PDFpage
Hi.
I am trying (and failing) to add an internal destination anchor to an existing
PDF page so would be grateful for any help. I’m using iTextSharp (VB code so no
semi-colons...).
I’ve tried:
Dim myAnchor As Anchor = New Anchor(anchorlink, Ar9FONT)
myAnchor .Name = anchorlink
col.SetSimpleColumn(myAnchor , left, bottom, right, top, 10, Element.ALIGN_LEFT)
col.Go()
But while the text of what I want to be the anchor is added to the page (i.e.
the string ‘anchorlink’), it’s not acting as a destination when I click on a
hyperlink in the PDF which goes to that location.
If I try adding a link rather than a destination with .Reference such as:
Dim myAnchor As Anchor = New Anchor(anchorlink, Ar9FONT)
myAnchor.Reference = "http://www.google.com/";
col.SetSimpleColumn(myAnchor, left, bottom, right, top, 10, Element.ALIGN_LEFT)
col.Go()
It works and the text is a clickable hyperlink. So SetSimpleColumn(myAnchor...)
add anchors OK but maybe I am missing something regarding getting it to work
with an internal destination?
Thank you in advance for your time and assistance.
Jay
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