I have not been able to get it to work so far, but it seems like it 'should'... :) I'm still hacking around with it.
One would think that Adobe would include this type of thing in Adobe Acrobat, given the expense and the fact they keep coming out with new versions. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Hesham G. <[email protected]> wrote: > Kevin , > > Hope you can share what you get with us. I am interested in that too. > > > Best regards , > Hesham > > --------------------------------------------- > Included message : > > > 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. 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