Not necessarily a bug in PDFBox. Preview on the Mac is not the same thing as Acrobat, and has some bugs and shortcomings. One needs to determine whether specs or standards have been violated by PDFBox or by Preview.
On Oct 24, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Hesham G. wrote: > Ok ... Now that is more clear :) > > I have tried this on more than 1 PDF, and they did the same thing(The > bookmarks appear and work fine in Windows, but do not appear in Mac). > > So is this considered a bug in PDFBox ? > I can give you a sample code here if you like for writing such bookmarks. > > Best regards , > Hesham > > --------------------------------------------- > Included message : > >> Hello Hesham, >> >> Sorry for that, I can be a bit messy sometimes. I meant that the first >> debugging exectution provided the same results as you (in Aperçu, >> didn't try on Windows). >> Then, I added an instruction like outlineItem.openNode() where >> outlineItem is the PDDocumentOutline object. >> >> Aperçu then understands that there is an outline attached to the >> document. I don't know if it feets the specs but works like this. >> >> Regards, >> >> Julien PLÉE >> >> Le 24 oct. 10 à 18:41, Hesham G. a écrit : >> >>> Thanks Julian for your reply. >>> Sorry, I do not understand your answer ! Do you mean the bookmarks >>> appeared fine to you in Mac ? >>> >>> Best regards , >>> Hesham >>> >>> --------------------------------------------- >>> Included message : >>> >>>> Hello Hesham, >>>> >>>> I had the same result in Aperçu at the beginning. I didn't tried to >>>> open it in Windows, I did instead "open" the bookmark root after >>>> adding the bookmarks to it and it did well. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Julien PLÉE >>>> >>>> Le 24 oct. 10 à 17:04, Hesham G. a écrit : >>>> >>>>> Hello , >>>>> >>>>> I have created a new PDF book using PDFBox, copied pages to it from >>>>> another PDF, then I defined a new bookmarks tree for it normally as >>>>> specified here : http://www.pdfbox.org/userguide/bookmarks.html >>>>> >>>>> The output PDF works perfect in Windows, and the bookmarks work >>>>> great. >>>>> But when I opened the same PDF in Mac OS X using the default PDF >>>>> viewer(Called 'Preview')... The PDF worked fine, but no bookmarks >>>>> appear in it. Here is a PDF sample so you can test it : >>>>> http://www.4shared.com/document/99lLOhb0/PDF_with_PDFBox_bookmarks_that.html >>>>> >>>>> You will see the bookmarks appear fine in Windows, but it does not >>>>> appear at all in Mac. Any idea what is wrong ? >>>>> >>>>> Best regards , >>>>> Hesham >>>> >>
