If you want to go through all that you might as well program in assembler to make it even more difficult. I'm a little lost about the original question but:
- if you want to create a new appearance call PdfContentByte.getAppearance() and put inside whatever you want that the resouces will be created and so on. When the doc is closed the appearance will be written to the output stream. To set the appearances use PdfAnnotation.setAppearance(). - if you want to import an annotation the work is more or less done. See the source code of PdfStamperImp.addComments(). Paulo > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of A. S. Golub > Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:51 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Retrieving of the content of > stream objects > > > Thanks again for the hint and quick reply. > > Just to be sure that I unerstood you correctly, check my > logic. If I want to > create appearance, I should : > - create PdfStream object which will represent actual > appearance stream, > - then I should set appearance's dictionary entries by proper > values (with > in-depth values assignment - I mean PageResources dictionary an other > complex entries) > - somehow set byte stream of the appearance object, and then > - produce proper PdfDictionary appearance dictionary object > for "AP" entry > from annotation dictionary, > - put into appearance dictionary an already prepared > PdfStream object under > desired key ("N", "R" or "D") and > - put appearance dictionary object under the key "AP" into annotation > dictionary. > > Am I correct ? If I am, please, tell me, how to set my byte > stream into > PdfStream object, and I'll be fine. :) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Leonard > Rosenthol > Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 3:41 PM > To: A. S. Golub; itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Retrieving of the content of > stream objects > > At 08:19 AM 2/8/2006, A. S. Golub wrote: > >Let's assume, that I've retrieved all data stored in the > appearance stream > : > >the stream of bytes, the form dictionary of the appearance > stream and > >so forth. Now I have to set normal/rollover/down appearance to the > >arbitrary annotation. As I can see, this could be done via method > >PdfAnnotation's method setAppearance(), like in the code below : > > > >Main problem is how to fill variables appN, appD and appR by > proper data. > > Basically, you MUST go low level on this one - working at the > actual "PDF object" level (aka PdfDict, etc.) to get & set each of the > values in teh equivalent dictionaries - since that's really > what you are > doing. > > > 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&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
