I'll send some code snippets today. Basically you have to get the PDNameDestinationNodes and... well, I don't have it here, will post today.
Kevin On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Hesham G. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? 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