To follow up, the only thing I found in the PDFSpec was the following: " 8.4.4 Appearance Streams Beginning with PDF 1.2, an annotation can specify one or more appearance streams as an alternative to the simple border and color characteristics available in earlier versions. Appearance streams enable the annotation to be presented visually in different ways to reflect its interactions with the user. Each appearance stream is a form XObject (see Section 4.9, "Form XObjects"): a self-contained content stream to be rendered inside the annotation rectangle. "
That last sentance in particular contradicts your observation. I take it that Acrobat has diverged from the spec here? --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff Software #include <disclaimer> typedef std::Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard; > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Leonard > Rosenthol > Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Retrieving of the content of stream > objects > > > At 08:39 AM 2/7/2006, Alexander Golub wrote: > >Now I have PdfStream object. How can I extract the very content of > >stream from there ? That is, I can access all the fields of > >annotation appearance object stream dictionary, but I cannot > >retrieve the stream itself. I want to get the content of stream to > >store it in the container object for future recreation of > >full-featured annotation from this conainer. > > > > Then you will need a LOT more than JUST the stream! You > also need all the resources of that the stream uses - which may or > may not be directly connected to the stream's Resource dict. > > > Leonard > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) > 215-938-0880 (fax) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep > through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. > DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&; dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
