Hello Tilman I can't thank you enough for helping me with this. I used the code you provided and it works perfect!
You're the best. Diane -----Original Message----- From: Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2018 1:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [External] Re: issue creating hyperlink in pdf Hello Diane, See the Annotation.java example in the 1.8 source code download. Re PDGamma, you can keep the default (i.e. "new PDGamma()") which is 0 0 0 i.e. black. You need the part that has "txtLink". So you need this: PDBorderStyleDictionary borderULine = new PDBorderStyleDictionary(); borderULine.setStyle(PDBorderStyleDictionary.STYLE_UNDERLINE); borderULine.setWidth(inch/72); // 1 point PDAnnotationLink txtLink = new PDAnnotationLink(); txtLink.setBorderStyle(borderULine); position = new PDRectangle(); position.setLowerLeftX(...); position.setLowerLeftY(...); position.setUpperRightX(...); position.setUpperRightY(...); txtLink.setRectangle(position); // add an action PDActionURI action = new PDActionURI(); action.setURI("http://www......";); txtLink.setAction(action); annotations.add(txtLink); Trick to get the coordinates: run the 2.0.11 PDFDebugger and open your existing PDF file. Move the mouse at the rectangle positions (lower left and upper right) and you'll see the positions at the status line. The rectangle is the "hot" area, i.e. the one where the link would be launched. Note that the link annotation is just the underline and the "effect". To output the text, you need to write into the content stream as usual. Tilman Am 04.10.2018 um 15:07 schrieb Haddy, Diane E: > Hello Tillman > > We are using the 1.8.10.jar and I created the pdf from scratch. My pdf is > complete and at the last minute the end user requested the link close to top > of the page. Can I use the code sample I provided and tweak it? If I do > use the PDGamma class do I need to create a method to return a PDGamma object > for the color black? Any suggestions will be very helpful. Thank you too > for the explanation about coordinates. > > Diane > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2018 11:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [External] Re: issue creating hyperlink in pdf > > Hello Diane, > > If you're just starting, then use 2.0.11 and not 1.8 from which this example > is coming. There get the 2.0.11 source download, there go to the example > subdirectory, and get AddAnnotations.java. Get it to run. If you get it > running, delete all that you don't need so that only one link annotation is > left. > > If the annotation is to be black, then the color is > > PDColor black = new PDColor(new float[] { 0, 0, 0 }, > PDDeviceRGB.INSTANCE); > > In RGB colorspace, the colors are red green blue and 0 0 0 is black > and > 1 1 1 is white. 1 0 0 is red. 1 1 0 is yellow. > > In the gray colorspace, 0 is black and 1 is white. > > The coordinates start at the bottom left. (unlike java imaging where it > starts at the top left). > > An A4 Page is about 600 x 800. (this is not exact, it's probably more > like 650 x 750) > > Are you creating a PDF completely from scratch or do you need to modify an > existing PDF, i.e. just add the unline and the link destination? > > Tilman > > Am 03.10.2018 um 22:27 schrieb Haddy, Diane E: >> Hello >> >> I have a task to create a hyperlink on a pdf page. I googled and found some >> code. I am not good with coordinates and do not know anything about pdfbox >> PDGamma class and how to add the color black to the text. Can you please >> help me? >> >> CODE: >> >> PDBorderStyleDictionary psd = new PDBorderStyleDictionary(); >> psd.setStyle(PDBorderStyleDictionary.STYLE_UNDERLINE); >> PDAnnotationLink txtLink = new PDAnnotationLink(); >> txtLink.setBorderStyle(psd); >> // txtLink.setColour(PDGamma colourBlack); >> >> //add action >> PDActionURI action = new PDActionURI(); >> action.setURI("http://mycode.here.com";); >> txtLink.setAction(action); >> >> //populate the url using these coordinates >> PDRectangle rec = new PDRectangle(); >> rec.setLowerLeftX(10); >> rec.setLowerLeftY(20); >> rec.setUpperRightX(100); >> rec.setUpperRightY(10); >> txtLink.setRectangle(rec); >> page.getAnnotations().add(txtLink); >> >> >> thank you, >> Diane >> >> >> >> Diane Haddy >> >> Health Care Information Systems >> Application Developer >> >> >> ________________________________ >> Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by the >> Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521 and is intended >> only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and >> may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from >> disclosure under applicable law. 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