On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > No, we need the comments to stay comments.
> 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. > > Cool, thanks a lot for your thoughts! I've actually contributed to the discussion on named destinations as I've used pdfbox to manipulate them (though I was never able to rename them without problems). I'll definitely give the annotations a whirl in pdfbox. Kevin > ---- > 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. >
