RE: [iText-questions] Comment summary generation

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 12:50 PM 11/18/2004, Nguyen, Daniel wrote:

Q1: Can you indicate me where can I get this 'slide notes' sample and the name of associated source file ?

        Handout_pdf.java - in the tools directory of the iText source tree.

What I would like to do:
1- get a copy of an annotated page
2- remove annotations
3- reference the 'Contents' stream in the 'Resource' of the page as an XObject/Form, giving it a unique name (call it Xmain)
4- change the 'Content' of the page so that rather than referencing directly the stream, it references a array of streams and in the 1st stream, it will reference a the 'Xmain' Xobject

        This is all done automatically for you when using the PdfImportedPage class.

Q2: The feature as seen in Acrobat 6 generates, for each annotated page, a new page listing all comments.

        That's one option.  When you do a Summerize Comments, you get a choice of 4 different ways to summarize.

For each comment, an icon/image is displayed. These are the images I was refering to

        Those are pulled from the PDF itself - the annot appearance streams.


Leonard

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