Hi Jeremias, Jeremias Maerki wrote: <snip/> > IFParser is also still missing the parse code for the structure tree. I > guess I would defer the call to startPageSequence in the IFParser, then > parse the reduced FO tree using a ContentHandler delegate, set that on > the user agent and then call startPageSequence when the first page tag > is encountered.
That’s what I ended up doing. Thanks for your input, Vincent > On 24.09.2009 13:07:11 Vincent Hennebert wrote: >> Jeremias Maerki wrote: >>> Not just like that (if at all). The content items being produced inside >>> the page-sequence have to be linked into the structure tree. There are >>> links (MCIDs) back and forth between the structure tree and the content >>> streams. You have to have the structure tree available while you create >>> the page contents to build up the links. You could probably move the >>> generation to endPageSequence but you'd end up duplicating some of the >>> data structures for establishing the links in the process which you'd >>> then have to map to the PDF library in the end. Not sure if that's what >>> you want. I don't have this stuff present as much as back when I helped >>> Jost, so I may be missing something. >> Ok, then there’s the following problem: when creating the PDF document >> out of an IF XML file, the structure tree is not yet available at the >> time PDFDocumentHandler.startPageSequence is called. Indeed in the IF >> the structure tree is stored as a child of the page-sequence element. >> >> Any idea of how to handle this, other than putting an ugly boolean at >> the beginning of PDFDocumentHandler.startPage, “if structure tree not >> yet built, then build structure tree”? >> >> >>> On 23.09.2009 13:44:11 Vincent Hennebert wrote: >>>> To those PDF specialists around here: am I right that the structure tree >>>> could as well be converted into PDF at the end of a page sequence, as at >>>> the beginning? >>>> >>>> In other words: could the piece of code dealing with the structure tree >>>> be moved from PDFDocumentHandler.startPageSequence to >>>> PDFDocumentHandler.endPageSequence? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Vincent >>> >>> >>> >>> Jeremias Maerki >> >> Thanks, >> Vincent > > > > > Jeremias Maerki >
