I am trying to create a PDF in BIRT and I need to have bookmarks linking from a summary page to each detail page. The links work fine in the HTML preview and a similar http link works in published PDFs. However, the internal links do not work in the PDF format.
What I have tried so far is setting the bookmark property to "detail_" + row["nodeid"] and setting the hyperlink to the same. As stated, this works for the HTML preview, but not the PDF export.
The PDF has automatically generated TOC items that I would prefer to leverage off, but I don't know how to link to those.
Is there a way that I can get the PDF output to contain the required links using either bookmark properties, or the generated TOC items?
Sample PDF output (Customer data removed, alternate locations selected)
The solution to the problem lies not in the format of the bookmark/hyperlink, but in the placement of the bookmark.
The problem was, I was placing the bookmark on the row of the table I wanted to link to. Instead, the bookmark needed to be on the label in the first column of the row.
I believe the issue is that, in the HTML version, the table row is a <tr> tag, however in the PDF, the row doesn't physically exist, so there's nothing to set the bookmark on. However the label/text item exists in both versions, so the bookmark is created correctly.
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I have a use case where I want to remove table data from pdf pages. I tried using pdf aspose but it seems cell.getTextFragments() is not coming while setting cellfragment.setText("").
Reference Link: https://docs.aspose.com/display/pdfjava/Remove+tables+from+existing+PDF
I'm new at working with itext and I'm looking for help.
I'm creating a PDF document based on a PDF template which contains a form with acrofields. This form is composed by some fields on top page and a table and has only one page.
The PDF document generated will have one or more pages depending on table's size (if size content extends predefined size, table should continue in the second page). Also every page should display fields on the top with the same information.
I've tried to solve it following "AddExtraTable" example, but I didn't get to keep the fields on top in all pages, only in the first one.
I've tried also to solve it with PdfCopy. This approach displays the fields on top in all pages but table content is not properly displayed.
Can someone help me?
PS: I have to use itext 2.1.7 because of project requirements.
I'm writing a PDF generation library and wanted to add the the ability to use other PDFs as templates. The specification notes a TemplateInstantiatedproperty on pages with the alias of the template object should be all that is needed.
Here is a gist of the pdf content:
https://gist.github.com/tyre/89c12f8203181f078001
The template itself is stored in object 16 and the page in object 19.
qpdf --check reports the PDF as invalid:
WARNING: tmp/alpaca.pdf: file is damaged
WARNING: tmp/alpaca.pdf (file position 32089): xref not found
WARNING: tmp/alpaca.pdf: Attempting to reconstruct cross-reference table
checking tmp/alpaca.pdf
PDF Version: 1.7
File is not encrypted
File is not linearized
I'm afraid your PDF document is completely and utterly broken and that you have misunderstood a number of key concepts. You cannot simply incorporate a complete PDF file into another PDF file in the way you have done and expect that to work.
The template system you are referring to is intended to include "hidden" pages - not referenced in the pages tree in the PDF file - in the context of an interactive form document (or interactive document in general). That doesn't sound like what you are intending to do. And these pages need to be valid PDF pages. You can in other words not just include the original PDF document verbatim and expect the PDF reader to sort things out; you need to insert a syntactically correct PDF page object.
What you want to do is take the content of a document and apply that as a background to a document. This most commonly is done using XObjects. Pseudo-code for this could be:
Open the original PDF document
Open the "template" document
Read the template document and copy all elements from the template page into a newly created XObject in the original PDF document.
Modify the page contents of the pages in the original PDF document to paint the new XObject at the beginning of the page description of the existing pages.
It's important to note that again, you're not supposed to simply insert the template document into the stream for the newly created XObject. You will have to create a valid XObject that contains a properly formed resources dictionary referencing all resources needed by your XObject, and that contains the content stream from your template document.
As already indicated in comments, the PDF presented by the OP is structurally defect, the cross reference table position and entries are wrong. Furthermore the transition from one PDF revision to a next update looks questionable. Essentially, therefore, the OP will have to provide a sample PDF which is at least syntactically correct.
That been said, though, the OP indicated he was
writing a PDF generation library and wanted to add the the ability to use other PDFs as templates. The specification notes a TemplateInstantiatedproperty on pages with the alias of the template object should be all that is needed.
The Named Pages mechanism is not meant for something like that. Its main current use (if it is used at all) is in the context of spawning page templates by Acroform actions.
For using pages from other PDFs, one can simply copy them (and the referenced other objects) from the source PDF if they are to be used as separate pages as is; and if multiple templates are to be put onto a single target page, one can wrap the copied sources into form xobjects and include them in the target page.
I want to create a document from an existing Word 2010 document and convert it to PDF using docx4j 3.1.0. I've built upon the sample in
https://github.com/plutext/docx4j/blob/master/src/samples/docx4j/org/docx4j/samples/ConvertOutPDF.java
The Word document already contains a header with text and an image that I do not modify in my processing. The resulting PDF document, however, doesn't contain the header.
Is this someting that is supposed to work? If yes: how can I find out what I am missing?
Yes, if you can see the header when you "save as PDF" in Word, then you should also see the header in docx4j's PDF output.
To have it fixed, we'll need to see the docx.
Just for the curious reader: the specific cause for the missing header turned out to be a wrong approach of setting page margins on the document. Instead of modifiying the existing settings via body.getSectPr().getPgMar() (or even simpler: setting it in the template right away), the code created new PageDimensions and set a new SectPtr on the body, thereby somehow overwriting or removing the header.
I'd like to create hyperlink references to a text selection or offset in an external PDF document, as if there were an anchor defined. E.g., http://lib.extern.org/doc1.pdf?page=3¶graph=4 so that when the user follows the link in their browser, the PDF document opens positioned at the offset specified. I'm looking for any granularity, e.g. page, paragraph, line, word, character or even pixel em or inch offset would be acceptable. If a range for a selection could be specified that would be ideal, the purpose being to highlight and link directly to quotes in external PDF docs (to which the app has read-only access.) Seems so basic, but I haven't found a solution. Ideas?
It appears it works for page numbers
EDIT: And also check this (it should open on page 8)
There are no standards for commandline parameters for the plugins.
But if you can render a fresh PDF each time (make a copy and put in a new object via some PDF manipulation API), you can include an OpenAction that jumps to the page in question. You can even set more viewer parameters (or do some other personalization, watermarks, whatever...).