Ruskin Dantra wrote: > Hi All, > I have tried looking up the archives but in vain, found a few examples > but most of them are so old
The reason why the FREE online examples are so old, is that I was writing a book about iText. The book has all the recent and working examples ;-) http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > I use content byte to position my text using an absolute reference on > the pdf, what I want to do now is to add an hyperlink to that text. I > suspect that I would use an anchor as that is something you click on to > open a new page. That's explained on p468-469. > Yes, I have tried having annotations at absolute positions but it > doesn't work like I want it to, it shows a little text file icon (which > I dont want) and when you click on it, it just opens a baloon (which I > don't want either). You're using the wrong kind of annotation. > In short all i want to do is add an Anchor to an absolute position on > the page, is this at all possible? Yes, as explained in the book, use methods such as PdfAnnotation.createLink br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
