Thanks much! I'm trying this but it seems to pull in bookmarks, not named
destinations. Am I missing something?


On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi
>
> Kevin Brown schrieb:
>
>  I can't seem to get this done with pdfbox. There doesn't seem to be a way
>> to
>> get the page number from the context of the named destination. Am I wrong?
>> Anyone got any sample code for working with named destinations?
>>
> If you have a look at the mentioned example you find some code like this:
>
> PDDocumentOutline
> bookmarks=document.getDocumentCatalog().getDocumentOutline();
> PDOutlineItem item = bookmarks.getFirstChild().getNextSibling();
>
> And the PDOutlineItem class provides a method to get the corresponding
> page:
>
> /**
>  * This method will attempt to find the page in this PDF document that this
> outline points to.
>  * If the outline does not point to anything then this method will return
> null.  If the outline
>  * is an action that is not a GoTo action then this methods will throw the
> OutlineNotLocationException
>  *
>  * @param doc The document to get the page from.
>  *
>  * @return The page that this outline will go to when activated or null if
> it does not point to anything.
>  * @throws IOException If there is an error when trying to find the page.
>  */
> public PDPage findDestinationPage( PDDocument doc ) throws IOException
>
> I didn't test it, but theoretically it looks like the piece of code you are
> looking for.
>
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler
>
>
>
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Kevin Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  Thanks. I do need to do that!
>>>
>>> At the moment I'm trying to see if I can get the
>>> GotoSecondBookmarkOnOpen.java sample has any clues... if   PDOutlineItem
>>> could refer to a named destination then I may be in business!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>  I haven't dealt with named destinations, but if you get get the object
>>>> ID
>>>> of the page, you can look up the page number with doc.getPageMap().  If
>>>> you haven't already, I'd suggest tracing through a PDF with a hex editor
>>>> (or any good quality text editor will work fine) to find out how
>>>> everything is connected.
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From:
>>>> Kevin Brown <[email protected]>
>>>> To:
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> Date:
>>>> 05/19/2010 08:42
>>>> Subject:
>>>> getting page numbers of named destinations
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to, for a PDF, get the named destinations in it, and find
>>>> out
>>>> what page each is on? It doesn't look like it from my perusal of the
>>>> documentation, but I'm not sure. Seems like you can get the destination
>>>> names but that's about it.
>>>>
>>>>
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