Kevin, Section 7.7.2 of the PDF Spec (I'm referencing version 1.7) goes over the Document catalog and table 20 points you to section 12.3.2.3 for "Named Destinations"). Section 12.3.2.3 explains that "the correspondence between name objects and destinations shall be defined by the Dests entry in the document catalogue (see 7.7.2, "Document Catalog")." So, per the spec, the answer lies in the document catalog.
Table 28 defines what entries are allowed in the catalog dictionary. The "Document Outline" (i.e. key: "Outlines"), which are also known as bookmarks, are what you are looping through in your code. So that's why you're getting bookmarks and not named destinations. You don't want document.getDocumentCatalog().getDocumentOutline() but you do want document.getDocumentCatalog(). Like I said before, I haven't actually dealt with named destinations, nor have I even seen a document which uses them, so I don't know how the "Dests" key works. However, it should be pretty easy to figure if you take a look at a PDF in vi, Notepad++, or any other quality editor. Once you know what you're looking for, it's just a matter of looking at things in PDDocumentCatalog to find it. ---- Thanks, Adam From: Kevin Brown <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 05/25/2010 11:11 Subject: Re: getting page numbers of named destinations 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ? Click here to submit conditions >>>> >>>> This email and any content within or attached hereto from Sun West >>>> Mortgage Company, Inc. is confidential and/or legally privileged. 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