First of all Thank you very much for the quick reply! Since, I trying to create a tool which could be used by the people free of cost, it would be really hard for me to purchase JPedal as it is too pricey.
I came across the JavaScript API by Adobe for Acrobat Reader and Professional. I do not have complete idea about the power of this API but I know it allows developers to create custom controls for Acrobat reader. Actually I don't want to save annotations on the pdf. I can save them separately on my annotation server. What I want is just a way to get the user selected text and its location in the pdf document. The annotation and other meta data can easily be stored on a remote server. Even If I get the selected user text using the JavaScript API of Adobe, I am not sure if the API allows XML communication with online web services. If somebody knows its possible with this API, please let me know.... Any alternate solutions are also welcomed... Thanks a lot for giving your time! Regards... 1T3XT info wrote: > > loonyCoder wrote: >> iText is an excellent api but the problem is it has no provision to >> display >> the pdf. > > That's why IDR solutions offers examples that combine their > JPedal PDF Viewer with iText. SUN's PDF Renderer was only > released a few months ago, I don't know of any products that > combine their viewer with iText yet, apart from RUPS, a tool > that was released in beta recently. RUPS won't help you > because it's targeted at a completely different audience: > it's for debugging PDF syntax. > >> I found api like PDF renderer but it does not have any method to >> give me the text selected by the user. > > I fear it will be very hard to find such a tool. > >> Therefore, it would be hard for me to >> annotate that part of the pdf. What I want is a combined solution where >> an >> api provides the pdf viewer capability like PDF Renderer as well as >> annotation features like iText. >> >> Could anybody help me with this? > > Using the JPedal/iText combination is probably the closest > you'll get to a solution. (Of course: I don't know the > complete market, so if you ever find another solution, > please send some feedback to this list!) > -- > This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Java-API-to-View-and-manipulate-PDF-tp15519013p15559728.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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/
