Could you tell me more about making pages clickable?
Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote:
>
> Hello again,
> when I say a question doesn't make sense,
> it doesn't help posting it again literally.
> Let me explain what I don't understand:
>
> jergi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I want to generate a new Pdf-file.
>
> OK.
>
>> First I want to insert some paragraphs (I
>> do this by using PdfWriter)
>
> Not exactly, you do something like:
> document.add(new Paragraph("text"));
> The documents controls the lay-out and sends this to
> a PdfWriter in charge of writing the corresponding
> PDF syntax.
>
>> and after that I want to copy same other Pdfs to
>> the new Pdf (using PdfCopy).
>
> What do you want to copy? When you say 'same other Pdfs',
> do you mean you want to copy the same file (the one you
> generated) to a new PDF or other files to the first PDF?
>
> I assume you want to insert the content of some other
> files into the first document you mentioned. However:
> you do know that PDF is not a format for editing, don't you?
> You know you can only copy complete pages and you can't
> change the lay-out. You can copy clipped pages, but you
> can't copy one paragraph of a page to one new page, and
> another paragraph of that page to another new page.
>
>> At least I want to link the inserted paragraphs
>> to the inserted pdfs.
>
> So we're talking about COMPLETE pages from existing PDFs
> inserted into a new PDF. You could easily make those pages
> 'clickable' and have them link to anywhere.
>
>> But my problem is, that I can´t append the pdfs to the paragraphs.
>
> The sentence above doesn't make any sense.
> It's like saying you're not succeeding in catching
> an elephant with a fishing rod. Honestly, you'll have
> to rephrase that sentence.
>
>> They
>> paragraphs are always overwritten.
>
> Eh? What do you mean?
>
>> Does anyone know, how I can solve this problem?
>
> That's like asking: how can I eat soup with a fork?
> The answer is: use a spoon!
>
>> My PdfWriter:
>> PdfWriter writer2.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(outFile));
>
> OK, so you have created a document to which you add paragraphs.
>
>> My PdfCopy:
>> PdfCopy writer = new PdfCopy( document, new FileOutputStream( outFile,
>> true
>> ) );
>
> What is this? You're creating a new PdfWriter (in casu: its
> subclass PdfCopy) using the same document instance? Why?
> How would that work? I don't understand this.
>
>> The way I link to:
>> Chunk localGoto = new Chunk("Siehe Erklärung");
>> localGoto.setLocalGoto( "LINK01" );
>> document.add( localGoto );
>
> Eh? How does this relate to the code above?
>
>> Chunk localDestination = new Chunk("d ");
>> localDestination.setLocalDestination( "LINK01" );
>> document.add( localDestination );
>
> Same question here.
> best regards,
> Bruno
>
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