Get the annots array from the page and look for the correct subtype. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. Langley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 5:21 PM Subject: [iText-questions] Reading Annotations
> Hi-- > > I need to know how to open a PDF document and read the annotations > available. I've tried using DumpFields.java located in the examples to > see if I could use that as a baseline for finding these annotations, > however, when I run it against my PDF file, it simply states "The > document has no fields." -- which is true, it only has annotations. The > example I used to generate a PDF with text annotations is the one > located at: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/examples/Chap0303.java. > > How would I be able to read the "books" and "authors" annotations > created by the example? I would generally know the "name" of the > annotation in advance, so if there is a way to get straight to the field > vs. iterating through an array/dictionary to find it, this would be better. > > I assumed that DumpFields must be close, and commented out the code that > checked for presence of fields, so basically it would always run the for > loop that iterated through the pages. Of course, this just resulted in > an empty output file, so I was wonderring what would need to be done to > make it work for true annotations vs. fields. I've tried changing the line: > PdfArray annots = > (PdfArray)reader.getPdfObject((PdfObject)dPage.get(PdfName.ANNOTS)); > > to use different PdfName constants, but I've had no luck with that yet > and am even wondering if this is possible. > > My end goal is to generate a PDF with text annotations, and at some > later point, read these annotations back in, all using iText. > > Thanks, > -John Langley > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
