I will be using C# for this (IKVM), but I'll try and submit a Java
example once I have something workable.
On 17/02/14 19:29, Maruan Sahyoun wrote:
you’re welcome. Maybe you can share a code snippet with us when you’re done -
would like to make it part of the documentation.
BR
Maruan Sahyoun
Am 17.02.2014 um 17:57 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>:
That should work nicely for finding character sequences and constructing
rectangle coordinates.
Thank you very much for the help!
On 17/02/14 17:45, Maruan Sahyoun wrote:
Hi,
you can take a look at org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations.java
which gives you a sample of outputting the location of individual characters.
BR
Maruan Sahyoun
Am 17.02.2014 um 16:18 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>:
I've come up with a good way to insert color-filled rectangles through the use
of Overlay (so that they are rendered behind the text instead of the front of
it.)
However, how do I get the text coordinates? For example, I'd like to get the coordinates
for every occurrence of the word "mark me" so that I can create a new
PDDocument with filled rectangles and then overlay the original over it. Currently, I
have:
PDDocument document = PDDocument.load("src.pdf");
PDDocument underContent = new PDDocument();
PDPage underPage = new PDPage();
PDPageContentStream contStrm = new PDPageContentStream(underContent,
underPage);
contStrm.setNonStrokingColor(Color.yellow);
contStrm.fillRect(/* Here I need the coordinates */);
contStrm.close();
underContent.addPage(underPage);
Overlay overlay = new Overlay();
overlay.overlay(document, underContent);
underContent.save("out.pdf");
underContent.close();
On 17/02/14 13:52, Maruan Sahyoun wrote:
[...]
If you would like to make the highlight part of the PDF you could
create an annotation or draw a rectangle behind the text.
Steps would be a. find the text b. get the coordinates of the text c.
create an annotation or a rectangle around the coordinates
You could also use the information in the highlight xml file to get
the coordinates for the annotation/rectangle
Am 17.02.2014 um 12:09 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>:
It is not apparent how to save a PDF after I highlight some text in
it. For example:
PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load("source.pdf"); PDFHighlighter hl =
new PDFHighlighter(); java.io.FileWriter xml = new
java.io.FileWriter("tmp.xml"); hl.generateXMLHighlight(doc, "450",
xml);
How do I now save source.pdf (or a copy of it, if overwriting is
not possible) with the text highlighted?
