If no one here helps you, perhaps try stackoverlow.com? There seem to be at least a few friendly folks over there who use pdfbox (and like tools).
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Kevin Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> > >
