Arrghhh. There must be a better way...
I'm looking for a PDF analogue to the RTFTOC class...?
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, May 17, 2004 3:16 pm
Subject: RE: [iText-questions] TOC question, redux... {Scanned}
> Here's how I do it.
>
> I maintain a data structure that is the table of contents. As I'm
> goingalong, I collect page number information, etc. I then print
> out the table
> of contents at the end of my document. When I print it out, I
> switch from
> numeric page numbers to roman numerals. I do this because there's
> no easy
> way to go back and modify my page numbers that I've already
> written. Thus,
> I don't even bother to try. Once I've written out my table of
> contents, I
> use iText's ability to re-order pages, and move the table of
> contents to the
> front of the document. It's pretty straight-forward.
>
> As far as page 1 of n, you can use a template and fill in 'n' at
> the end of
> the document. PDF provides for these templates, so it's not an iText
> specific methodology. Let me know if you can't find code examples out
> there, and I'll see if I can dig mine up.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Bill
>
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>
> I know I've sort of asked this before, but I only received an
> answer on how
> to create an outline. How do I create a Table of Contents for the
> beginningof a long, complex iText PDF? Specifically, how would I
> place the TOC at the
> beginning of a document when I don't know what the whole document
> tree is
> until I'm done parsing and writing the content? Is there a way to
> do this in
> one pass? (I'm really hoping so) MSWord allows you to programmatically
> insert a TOC object at the beginning of a document from a template and
> recalculate the whole document when you are done writing it. is
> there an
> itext equivalent?
>
> I'm sorry if the answer is buried in the mailing list archives,
> I've tried
> to do my due diligince, but the archives seem to be working eratically
> today...
>
> Thanx in advance,
> Jake
>
>
>
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