Hi Bruno, thank you very much for your detailed explanation. I will try to use it to build my TOC.
Best regards, Lars "Bruno Lowagie (iText)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lars Vogel wrote: >> Hi Bruno, >> >> sorry for not beeing precise. >> >> I do use the outlines and they do work fine. I'm also very happy with >> them, >> no question here. I did create them based on an example from your >> webpage. > > OK, this simplifies your work. > You have a finished PDF (as a file or in memory) with Outlines. > Now you want to add a Table of Contents on one or more pages > at the start or the end of your document. > To achieve this, you need class SimpleBookmark. > This class can give you the outline information as a List > of objects or as an XML file. You use it to retrieve titles > and page numbers. > Now it's up to you if you want to create a separate PDF > document with the TOC and concatenate this PDF with the > original document (using PdfCopy), or if you want to use > PdfStamper and its insertPage() method. > The easiest thing to achieve, is to add the TOC at the end > of the document. If you want the document to start with the > TOC, you'll have to update the outline tree, and make sure > your page numbers are OK. A TOC is often numbered (i), (ii), > (iii), (iv),... and page numbering of the actual content > starts with 1, 2, 3,... If you want to avoid this, I would > recommend using PdfStamper, and omit the page numbers in the > first pass. Make the TOC twice: once to find out the total > number of TOC pages, a second time to calculate the exact > page numbers (taking into account the number of TOC pages). > > Basically, you can make this as simple or as complex you want ;-) > >> So my question was: Does someone can point >> me to an example code on how to create a table of content? > > There's no 'ready-made' example for each possibility > described above, but combining the SimpleBookmark example > on pages 413-414 and maybe the example on page 443-444 > should help you on your way. > > 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 > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
