I asked the same question on this list last year - search for my e-mail in the
archive - you should find a reply from paolo how to do it.
Anyway - you probably do NOT want to do it that way anyway because:
When you link an attachment with a launch action you are unable to use the
SAVE_AS feature in the attachment pane (see another discussion on this list
from me).
Since Adobe furthermore, in there infintie wisdom decided that some attachment
types (docs are fine) cannot be openend anymore or saved (zip) - your user is
unable open the attachment.
For usability reasons - with the launch option - you make it impossible for
adobe reader users to use the save_as dialog - it will only launch the word
application and they should save it there
--- On Tue, 6/3/08, Sumeet Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Sumeet Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] click on image and open the attachment
> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 11:51 PM
> hi Paulo,
>
> Let me be clearer on this. I need to create a PDF file,
> which could contain
> word documents as attachments. I can embed both an image
> and make it
> clickable AND attach a word document in the pdf file.
> However, the
> requirement is that when i click on the embedded image, the
> corresponding
> attachment opens up, so that the user does not have to go
> to the attachments
> icon to see what all attachments are associated with the
> pdf (it might be
> confusing for them). So, my query is that is it possible to
> have some sort
> of link between the embedded image and the attachment in
> the PDF file, so
> that clicking image 1 opens up attachment 1, clicking image
> 2 opens up
> attachment 2 and so on?
> There can be more than 1 attachments in the pdf and hence
> more than 1 images
> embedded.
>
> Here's what i did earlier:-
> I associated the word document not as an attachment to the
> pdf but as a byte
> array to the image embedded. Now, when the user clicks on
> the image, the
> byte array associated with the image actually was saved as
> a file in the
> temporary folder of the machine. I was then using the MS
> Word to open it.
> The problem with this approach was that since the byte
> array was getting
> associated with my temporary folder (or my C:/ folder),
> when i was sending
> this PDF file in an email, it was not opening the word
> document, as it was
> expecting the temporary folder of my machine. In nutshell,
> the embedded
> image became as good as a hyperlink (pointing to my
> temporary folder), which
> was not the requirement, as the pdf then became system
> dependent.
> The following is my code snippet, if that may help:-
>
> ------------------------------------- start of code
> ---------------------------------------------------
> // get the byte array
> for the word
> document to be attached
> byte[] b = getBytesFromFile("C:/Test.doc");
>
> docWriter.addFileAttachment("This is
> Test.doc", b, null, "Test.doc");
>
> Paragraph imageParagraph = new Paragraph("Testing
> this image");
> doc.add(imageParagraph);
> String name = "MyWordFile";
> Image testImage =
> Image.getInstance("C:/word.jpg");
> testImage.scaleToFit(50, 50);
> testImage.setAlignment(1);
>
> testImage.setAdditional(PdfFileSpecification.fileEmbedded(docWriter,
> "",
> "This is test", b, true,
> "application/msword", null));
> File tempFile = getPathInLocalMachine(b, name);
> testImage.setAnnotation(new Annotation(0, 0, 0, 0,
> "",
> "application/msword", "",
> ""));
> testImage.setOriginalData(b);
> doc.add(testImage);
>
> -------------------------------------- end of code
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> No problem with that, just make the activation area the
> size of the
> image. See
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/19141.
>
> Paulo
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On
> > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:44 PM
> > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [iText-questions] click on image and open the
> attachment
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a requirement where i need to embed a word
> document
> > image file in a PDF document generated by iText. So
> far so
> > good. However, i need to ensure that when i click on
> the
> > image, the attached word document actually opens up.
> > In nutshell, the image in the PDF file should actually
> link
> > to the attachment in the pdf document.
> >
> > Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
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