SimpleBookmark will get the outlines for you in a legible way and even present the page numbers as a bonus.
Paulo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward W. Rouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Post all your questions about iText here'" <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] get a page number from a PdfDictionary > Let me try again. I saw an example that used PdfCopy. Seemed simple > enough. You use the getImportedPage(PdfReader, int) method to > get the page from the reader and then use the addPage(PdfImportedPage) to > put it in the new one. Very clean and simple. The problem > is getting the page numbers as ints for getImportedPage. The example was > very simple in that they only dealt with 1 level of > bookmarks, so they could just grab the count and go from there. My problem > is more complex in that I have multiple levels of > bookmarks and I may have to skip around a bit. > > I have found how to get the page dictionaries, which include the indirect > references. I just haven't been able to figure out how to > use that information to get the page number required by the > getImportedPage method of PdfCopy. If it is not possible to do this, > then I will look for another solution. > > Thanks. > > Edward W. Rouse > ComSquared Systems, Inc. > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Bruno Lowagie >> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:00 PM >> To: Post all your questions about iText here >> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] get a page number from a PdfDictionary >> >> >> Edward W. Rouse wrote: >> > I have been searching the mailing list archives and using >> Google for >> > hours and haven't found the answer, so I am asking here. >> >> Have you read the PDF Reference? >> There's no such thing as page numbers in the page(s) dictionary. >> There's the page tree from which you can retrieve the order >> of the pages, and as soon as you know the order, you know >> the page number. Therefore there's no need to store the page >> number in any page or pages dictionary. Maybe you are confusing >> with page labels; if so, please consult the API for PdfPageLabels. >> http://itext.ugent.be/library/api/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfPage > Labels.html#getPageLabels(com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader) > > br, > Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
