RE: [iText-questions] Comment summary generation

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 03:27 PM 11/18/2004, Nguyen, Daniel wrote:

Q1: My understanding of what Acrobat does is :

        You are describing your assumption about an application-specific implementation.  You do NOT need to reproduce their internal implementation exactly.  You simply wish to produce a similar result.

        You need to understand the CONCEPTS of what Acrobat is doing - NOT the implementation.  To do this, you need to read the PDF Reference about the objects and issues involved.

What i've been able to do:
 
1- remove the page's annotations
2- copy the page
 

        Understood, but you'll be better served using PdfImportedPage().

Now, what's missing:
1- I don't have normal appearance of the annotations on the pages

        You can have iText do this for you by using the Flatten() features.  They were designed for form fields, but should also work just fine for any type of annotation.

2- I should update the page content to display the annotation numbers comments on next page(s) refer to.
 

        Use the PdfStamper class to do this.


Leonard

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