Chemi, Yes, working with named dests in pdfbox can be a little frustrating. I hope to experiment further some time soon. Hope some one else can chime in with some wisdom.
Re your first point, maybe you could use PDF CanOpener or something like that to get a good look at how the pdfbox named destinations differ from 'regular' ones to find out exactly how they are different? Just a thought. You can get the working demo for free. Good luck to you! Kevin On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Chemi <[email protected]> wrote: > > I found really cryptic how to use the API to add those destinations. I > understand nobody in the list is aware of any sample, tutorial or what ever > piece of doc about this topic. Right? > > As I commented before, I was able to add a Destination and verified it > worked more or less fine. I said it worked because I was able to issue: > > AcroRd32.exe /A "nameddest=CHEMI" PDFOpenParameters2.pdf > > and it was opened exactly where I said: 500,500. > > But I said more or less, because: > > - Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) doesn't show the destinations correctly > once I added mine. It is not an issue for my objective but wondering why... > > - I don't find an easy way to add destinations to specific lines of > code. I am not able to get the coords of a COString. And BTW, in my PDFs > there are tons of COStrings, most of them based on a single letter of a > word. Gulp! > > I was thinking about extracting all the content to a StringWriter in > memory, split the content in lines, and perform math calculations to know in > which page I am, and which should be the coords for such line. Although I > think this is not a good way to achieve this. Of course, I base tis solution > in the idea that all my PDFs have text, using the same font, etc... > > It seems coord 0,0 is the most down,left point of a page, while 0,800 is > the most up,left one. I got this info testing, so it is not accurate. > > Any advise? > > Thanks again, > > Chemi. >
