Hi,

> Am 15.04.2015 um 10:44 schrieb Johanneke Lamberink 
> <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> 
> Thank you for replying.
> 
> I did try using ImportXFDF. Unfortunately, this will only load the ³text²
> annotation and throws an IOException when any other annotation is
> encountered. 
> 

could you upload a sample pdf and xfdf to a public location to take a look?

BR
Maruan

> 
> Having had a look at the current trunk, I¹m not sure what the improvements
> should be. In the code regarding FDF/XFDF I don¹t see any significant
> changes.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Johanneke Lamberink
> 
> Op 14/4/15 18:15 schreef Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Am 14.04.2015 um 15:06 schrieb Johanneke Lamberink:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> As part of a bigger application, I am trying to use PDFBox to combine a
>>> separate XFDF file containing annotations with a PDF document. The
>>> result should be a PDF document with annotations.
>>> 
>>> Unless I'm mistaken, PDFBox has no support for parsing XFDF annotations
>>> at this time. Are there any plans to implement this?
>>> In an attempt to implement it myself, I have been parsing the XFDF file
>>> to create FDFAnnotation objects and then using those FDFAnnotation
>>> objects to create PDAnnotation objects. So far so good. However, the
>>> FDFAnnotation class and it's various subclasses for different
>>> annotations do not support the attributes that are required for specific
>>> annotations.
>>> A result of this is that I have to parse String input to PDFont and
>>> PDColorspace objects (for example), and I can't discover how to do this.
>>> 
>>> For now, I have 3 questions:
>>> 
>>>   *   how do I create a PDFont object from (for example) "/Helvetica
>>> 18 Tf"
>>>   *   how do I create a PDColorSpace object from (for example) "0.000
>>> 0.000 0.000 rg"
>>>   *   What are your suggestions for continuing with my project.
>>> Continue working on my own solution, or implement support for XFDF
>>> annotations in PDFBox? Is anyone already working on this?
>>> 
>>> Any help is greatly appreciated :)
>> I'm not a XFDF expert, but did you ever give
>> org.apache.pdfbox.tools.ImportXFDF
>> a try? Maybe that's the missing piece you are looking for ...
>> 
>> P.S.: You should use the current trunk due to some recent improvements
>> trageting 
>> that specific area.
>> 
>>> Johanneke Lamberink
>> 
>> 
>> BR
>> Andreas Lehmkühler
>> 
>> 
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