At 02:04 PM 6/13/2006, Nick Darnell wrote:
>Hmm, do annotations only contain information about fields?
No. They also contain all the other types of annotations...
> I tried
>modifying the field copier to grab the fields from one document, and the
>content from the other. But that only resulted in tons of errors when I
>went to save the files.
Copying the fields from the template doc to the doc with the
content is VERY simple and logical - there shouldn't be any problems.
>If I wanted to take the fieldcopy implementation, let it run as is, then
>go back over the dictionaries, or where ever this particular info is
>stored, where would I look in the dictionary to replace the content of a
>page?
Why are you replacing page content??
>What dictionary stores the list of pages and their underlying objects.
That's a LOT of different objects all interconnected. You
do NOT want to play there...
>(I ran out and bought a copy of the PDF reference, man this thing is huge)
Yes.
>Any chance of a future version of itext that treats the input and output
>data the same for a PDF? That is to say, any chance that instead of
>looking through dictionaries, info that gets read is wrapped by the same
>objects you use to build the data, ex, PdfFormField.
Doubtful - that's a LOT of work to handle 100% roundtripping.
> It would make my
>life so much easier as a person who doesn't know the PDF format to be able
>to create a PdfFormField, set some getters and setters, and when I read
>that same PDF back in to have the same kind of objects(PdfFormField)
>returned when I say getFields() or whatever. Just a thought.
No time like the present to learn PDF...
Leonard
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