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> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 05:27:32 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] text searching + opening a document directly
> to the search result location
>
>
>
> Hello again!
>
> Ok, I'll try to make it a bit clearer. Imagine this table:
>
> Property Name | Blah 1 | .... Blah n | HELP_BUTTON
> property 1 | | | btnHelp
> propery 2 | | |btnHelp
Is this in a browser or your own app?
>
> It the user presses the btnHelp, the Pdf help-file should appear on the
> screen.
> This document has the explanations for all the properties. For example:
>
> 1. Property 1
> blahblah and more blah.
>
> 2. Property 2
> blaaaah (tables, diagrams...)
>
are the properties and help responses relatively static and known apriori
or quite dyanmic?
> Because the help is amassed in one file, the client would want this behavior:
> -user clicks on property "n" btnHelp
> -pdf document opens scrolled directly to "n. Property n....." - much like the
> bookmark behavior
Well, everyone gets requests like this you may want to get a better idea of
what the actual end product should be from the user's view point. If the concern
is general quality of the help text or there is some unique facility provided
by
pdf it may make sense but for users who want information for an immediate
need they may not need lots of pictures. You probably don't want a tutorial
as you are getting ready to submit a form to trade securities, launch a
missile, or land a plane.
>
> I found the SetOpenAction method.
> It executes when the document opens. But it needs some parameters. It needs a
> LocalDestination. And here i thought that the "text searching" would come in.
> I was thinking that:
> - get Property Name from the table
> - search "n. property n" string in the PDF
> - get the coordinates, location of the string occurrence
presumably the "search" is being done by the viewer or do you want itext to do
this?
> - set the Open Action
> would to the trick.
>
> But can I do that? Any other suggestions or solutions would be welcomed.
Get a better idea of what the user is supposed to experience and write scripts
to parse
the source pdf into a suitable format unless pdf is the right choice.
>
> Thank you for your time & patience.
It is easier now than to find out later you have designed a system that I need
to use
to do something simple- many agencies have been sold on pdf and probably try to
do stuff
like this all the time. There are some very good pdf products generated each
week
by govt agencies that have pictorical information, but then there are many
submissions
from people forced to make public declarations that use pdf as a big way to
hide data from
automated processing etc etc etc.
>
>
>
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