Kevin , I have been watching this post out, and I don't seem to understand yet what is the difference between "Named destinations" and "bookmarks" ? And I hope if you could share your code with us for how you have got it.
Best regards , Hesham --------------------------------------------- Included message : > Thank you SO MUCH, Adam. With your advice, and some tinkering with PDFBox, I > was able to get at and manipulate the named destinations. > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> The >> >>>> information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity >> >>>> named >> >>>> on this email. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby >> >>>> notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of >> any >> >>>> action in reliance on the contents of this email information is >> strictly >> >>>> prohibited, and that the documents should be returned to this office >> >>>> immediately by email. Receipt by anyone other than the intended >> >>>> recipient is >> >>>> not a waiver of any privilege. 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