First, let me make sure I understand your goals correctly. You have PDF 1 which has annotations and you want to make a copy all the annotations over to PDF 2. If we can't figure that out, then the next best thing would be to make bookmarks with named destinations with the text from the annotation and have them point to the exact location where the annotation was located. Sound about right?
Well, I've never done anything with annotations, but assuming you can iterate over them and get the text and location, it should be pretty simple to build a document outline. Hesham had a few nice posts on named destinations which included some sample code. Here's an example: http://markmail.org/message/nbml3fzsdjn5kvbh (or just search the mailing lists for "named destinations"). I haven't done any named destinations with PDFBox, but I read up on ISO32000 to help Hesham, so I'm pretty good at looking at the raw data with a text editor and tracing through to see how everything is laid out and why it is or is not working. ---- Thanks, Adam From: Kevin Brown <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 11/18/2010 09:28 Subject: Re: editing, moving comments and bookmarks? Adam, Let's say you have a PDF to which some user has added comments. Then an updated PDF is generated. I was thinking perhaps one could sync the user generated annotations from the old PDF to the new one. Perhaps by using named destinations? Looks tough, but surely some one has needed to do this kind of thing? Thanks, Kevin On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I've done some work with bookmarks. What did you want to know? What are > you trying to do? > > ---- > Thanks, > Adam > > > > > > From: > Kevin Brown <[email protected]> > To: > [email protected] > Date: > 11/18/2010 09:02 > Subject: > editing, moving comments and bookmarks? > > > > Hi, > > has anyone had experience using pdfbox to edit and/or move comments and > bookmarks? > > I see some discussions about comments i pdfbox... > > Thanks, > > Kevin > > > > - FHA 203b; 203k; HECM; VA; USDA; Conventional > - Warehouse Lines; FHA-Authorized Originators > - Lending and Servicing in over 45 States > www.swmc.com - www.simplehecmcalculator.com Visit > www.swmc.com/resources for helpful links on Training, Webinars, Lender > Alerts and Submitting 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 taking 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. > Please do not include your social security number, account number, or any > other personal or financial information in the content of the email. Should > you have any questions, please call (800) 453 7884. - FHA 203b; 203k; HECM; VA; USDA; Conventional - Warehouse Lines; FHA-Authorized Originators - Lending and Servicing in over 45 States www.swmc.com - www.simplehecmcalculator.com Visit www.swmc.com/resources for helpful links on Training, Webinars, Lender Alerts and Submitting 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 taking 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. Please do not include your social security number, account number, or any other personal or financial information in the content of the email. Should you have any questions, please call (800) 453 7884.
