I've been using named destinations in PDF files to open the PDF file at a specific location in the file. The team responsible for generating the PDF document uses a tool to automatically generated named destinations from book marks, so the named destinations tend to have names like *9_Glossary* or *Additional_Information*. We've been asked to produce the same documents in multiple languages. I expect the we will be supplied PDF documents in multiple foreign languages with bookmarks in the same locations, but the names of the book marks will of course be in these other languages, and the automatically generated named destinations will be in the foreign language. I would like the named destinations in all the documents to be the same.
I can't be the first person to run into this problem, so I'm interested to see if others have dealt with this.
One thought that comes to might might be to rename the destinations in the foreign language documents. I have used iSharpText to extract a list of named destinations. Is it possible to iSharpText to rename the destination? Ideally, I'd have a tool that my translator could use to match the named destination names in each language, then have the tool replace the named destination names.
Another thought is to maintain a database where the translation is performed in real time; the translator still has to match of named destination names, but they are stored in a database. The program that orders Adobe Reader to open would use the English version to look up the foreign language name and then use that to open the document.
I'd also be interested in recommendations of PDF authoring tools that might make this problem easier to solve.
Please take a look at the example RenameDestinations. It's doing more than you need, because the original document itself contains links to the named destinations and for those to keep working, we need to change the action that refers to the names we've changed.
This is the part that is relevant to you:
PdfDictionary catalog = reader.getCatalog();
PdfDictionary names = catalog.getAsDict(PdfName.NAMES);
PdfDictionary dests = names.getAsDict(PdfName.DESTS);
PdfArray name = dests.getAsArray(PdfName.NAMES);
for (int i = 0; i < name.size(); i += 2) {
PdfString original = name.getAsString(i);
PdfString newName = new PdfString("new" + original.toString());
name.set(i, newName);
}
First you get the root dictionary (or catalog). You get the /Names dictionary, looking for named destinations (/Dests). In my case, I have a simple array with pairs of PdfString and references to PdfArray values. I replace all the string values with new names.
The structure I'm changing like this, is a name tree, and it usually isn't that linear. In your PDF, this tree can have branches, so you may want to write a recursive method to go through those branches. I don't have the time to write a more elaborate example, nor do I want to steal your job for you. This example should help you on your way.
Note that I keep track of the original and new names in a Map named renamed. I use this map to change the destinations of the Link annotations on the first page.
I’m late to the party, lol but this might be of benefit to others hitting on this thread from a google search.
I suggest getting Autobookmark professional, it provides a lot of tools for bookmarks, links and named destinations.
Far easier to export then use a text editor to change your names then reimport.
Just remember that if the named destinations are attached to links you will have to reset those links as they don’t automatically update.
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I am a relatively new user of Tabulator so please forgive me if I am asking anything that, perhaps, should be obvious.
I have a Tabulator report that I am able to print and create as a PDF, but the report's formatting (as shown on the screen) is not used in either output.
For printing I have used printAsHtml and printStyled=true, but this doesn't produce a printout that matches what is on the screen. I have formatted number fields (with comma separators) and these are showing correctly, but the number columns should be right-aligned but all of the columns appear as left-aligned.
I am also using Tree View where the tree rows are coloured differently to the main table, but when I print the report with a tree open it colours the whole table with the tree colours and not just the tree.
For the PDF none of the Tabulator formatting is being used. I've looked for anything similar to the printStyled option, but I can't see anything. I've also looked at the autoTable option, but I am struggling to find what to use.
I want to format the print and PDF outputs so that they look as close to the screen representation as possible.
Is there anywhere I could look that would provide examples of how to achieve the above? The Tabulator documentation is very good, but the provided examples don't appear to explain what I am trying to do.
Perhaps there are there CSS classes that I am missing or even mis-using? I have tried including .tabulator-print-table in my CSS, but I am probably not using it correctly. I also couldn't find anything equivalent for producing PDFs. Some examples would help immensely.
Thank you in advance for any advice or assistance.
Formatting is deliberately not included in these, below i will outline why:
Downloaders
Downloaded files do not contain formatted data, only the raw data, this is because a lot of the formatters create visual elements (progress bar, star formatter etc) that cannot be replicated sensibly in downloaded files.
If you want to change the format of data in the download you will need to use an accessor, the accessorDownload option is the one you want to use in this case. The accessors transform the data as it is leaving the table.
For instance we could create an accessor that prepended "Mr " to the front of every name in a column:
var mrAccessor= function(value, data, type, params, column, row){
return "Mr " + value;
}
Assign it to a columns definition:
{title:"Name", field:"name", accessorDownload:mrAccessor}
Printing
Printing also does not include the formatters, this is because when you print a Tabulator table, the whole table is actually rebuilt as a standard HTML table, which allows the printer to work out how to layout everything across multiple pages with column headers etc. The downside of this is that it is only loosely styled like a Tabulator and so formatted contents generated inside Tabulator cells will likely break when added to a normal td element.
For this reason there is also a accessorPrint option that works in the same way as the download accessor but for printing.
If you want to use the same accessor for both occasions, you can assign the function once to the accessor option and it will be applied in both instances.
Checkout the Accessor Documentation for full details.
Forgive me, I'm not a proper JS programmer and still getting my head around a lot of concepts.
Suppose one had a group of similar, 2-frame/2-state rollover movie clips nested inside a containing clip, which has the instance name "Map". Each clip uses a 4 digit ID number preceded by an "s" as an instance name – e.g., "s6566".
Suppose one then wanted to capture those respective instance names to define a variable, such that one small script could allow each of these movie clips to display their ID on rollover/active state (in this case "6566"), across multiple files.
Ultimately I have thousands of these little clips spread across several dozen documents, and it seems it should be fairly simple to grab each symbol's instance name/ID, strip off the "s" from the beginning (there because instance names can't begin with a numeral), and apply said ID as dynamic text to it's respective symbol's rollover/active frame.
Is there a method of achieving this goal? I wish I had some example code to include here, but I'm not quite sure how to begin, other than to lay out the problem thusly. Haven't yet been able to find any info on capturing instance names, and I'm not sure whether it's possible. Thanks.
Children of MovieClips are stored as references using their instance name. You can see the format in the exported library JS file. Note that Animate will convert some instance names to remove unsupported characters or duplicates.
Here is some untested pseudo-code to get you started.
// You can iterate a MovieClip and get the names
for (var name in someMovieClip) {
// Ignore anything not starting with an s
if (name.substr(0,1) != "s") { continue; }
// remove the s
var newName = name.substr(1);
// The child can be accessed using bracket-access with its name
var child = someMovieClip[name];
// The child should have text instances if it is set up how you described
// Set the text to the newName
child.textInstance.text = newName
}
Don't forget to update the stage after you make changes. If you already have Ticker set up to do that, it should update immediately.
I hope that helps. If you have follow-up questions, let me know.
Does anyone know of a method that allows you to search a string through a text file using StreamReader that allows you to account for multiple instances of finding the results. Basically I am creating a booking application and each time a customer books a seat, their PrimaryKey, FirstName, LastName and the co-ordinates of the seat on a data grid (which I have used as a method to book seats) are generated then saved to a text file.
I want the ability to be able to read multiple instances of a PrimaryKey then find the seat co-ordinates of each line that this PrimaryKey is listed on and repopulate another similar datagridview with these co-ordinates which is all going to be driven by a combobox index change.
It seems a bit complicated to understand but if anyone can help then please let me know.
I just need the knowhow of how to search multiple instances, so after its found the string once then look through the rest of the file to find another instance, I can do the rest by myself.
I'm coding using Visual Basic.Net
Yes it's possible to search multiple times through a file, but you'd either have to reopen the file, or rewind the stream (FileStream.Seek).
Wildly inefficient though.
If it has to remain an unsorted and unstructured file, build an in memory index to it.
If your key is an integer, create a Dictionary<int,int> of Key and Position in the stream.
Then when you want find key X you use FileStream.Seek to move to it, and read a line to get the data. If you find yourself grouping by say aeroplaneID, build a Dictionary<Int, List<Int,Int>>
where the key is the aeroplane id and the list is a list of primary keys and positions in the file.
You could push all that off to a background thread. You could try and get really clever and build them up as you need them. Personally though I'd be trying to move my storage to a more suitable format. You aren't struggling to do this because you've missed a class, you are struggling because you shouldn't.
Something like
Dictionary<int, int> _fileIndex = new Dictionary<int,int>();
using(FileStream fs = new FileStream(DataFileName,FileMode.Open,FileAccess.Read))
{
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(fs);
int lastPosition = 0;
string currentLine = null;
while(currentLine = reader.ReadLine() != null)
{
String[] data = currentLine.Split(new char[] {','});
int key = int.Parse(data[0]);
fileIndex.Add(key,lastPosition);
lastPosition = fs.Position;
}
}
NB didn't test the above and there should be a bit more error checking in it. If there's alot of data in the line, then might be better off not suing split and just pulling out everything up to the correct delimiter. Also be careful how many indexes you keep live, wouldn't be long before they used up more space than just reading the entire thing in to memory.
Then you could create a class or structure to implement a line in the file, and write a bit of code
to use FileStream.Seek) to get there. If you wanted to load up a bunch of 'em it would make sense to get your list of positions of each one in the file and then sort them in order, then you could rip through the file in it's 'order' picking them out.
I started working on a new home project, I need to index specific files names with there paths.
The program will index files on my local hard-disk with no need to deal with the contents of the files (so I assuming/hoping it would be simple implementation).
At first the user will insert a list of file extensions to get indexed (During setup time).
Then the program will run and create the data structure holding the path for the specific file entered by the user.
Retrieving data from by data structure would look like this:
path of the file on my HDD=function(filename entered by user)
I thought about it for quite a while and wrote a design for the data structure here is my suggestion
(Design Illustration):
I'll use an array with a hash function for mapping extension to a cell (Each cell presents the
first letter of the extension file).
inside each cell there would be a list of extensions starting with the same letter.
for each node in the list there would be a red black tree for searching the filename and then
after we found the filename the program will retrieve the path of the file stored in the tree
node.
Oh by the way usually I program in c (low level) or in c++.
I think you are making a way too elaborate and complicated scheme. If locating a MyFileTree based on extension is what you want then just use SortedDictionary<string, MyFileTree> where string is your extension and you'll get a O(log n) retrieval mechanism out of the box.
I'm using Doxygen to generate documentation for my code. I need to make a PDF version of this and using Doxygen's LaTeX output appears to be the way to do it.
However I've run into a number of annoying problems, and not knowing anything about LaTeX previously haven't really got much of an idea on how to approach them, and the countless references for LaTeX related things are not much help...
I worked out how to create a custom style thing in a sty file and how to get Doxygen to use it. After a lot of searching I found out how to set the page margins etc. through this, and I'm guessing the perhaps this is the file I want for doing the other things I want, but I cant seem to find any commands for doign what I want :(
The table of contents at the start of the document contains a lot of items Id rather it didn't as it makes the contents very long. Is there some way to limit this contents to just say the first two levels, rather than having entries for every single individual function, variable, etc.? Id quite like to keep all the bookmarks however. I did try the "COMPACT_LATEX" option but as well as removing items on the contents pages, it removed the bookmarks and the member lists at the start of each section, which I do really want to keep.
Is there a way to change the order of things, like putting the full class description at the start of the section, rather than after all the members and attributes?
Wow, that's kind of evil of Doxygen.
Okay, to get around the tocdepth counter problem, add the following line to your .sty file:
\AtBeginDocument{\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}}% or whatever level you want
You can set the PDF bookmarks depth to a separate value:
% requires you \usepackage{hyperref} first
\hypersetup{
bookmarksdepth = section, % of whatever level you want
}
Also note that if you have a list of figures/tables, the tocdepth must be at least 2 for them to show up.
I don't see any way of rearranging those items within the LaTeX files---Doxygen just barfs them out there, so we can't do much. You'll have to poke around the Doxygen documentation to see if there's any way to specify the order I guess. (Here's hoping!)
You're so close.
Googling on "latex contents level" brought me to LaTeX - customizing the depth of the table of contents for different parts of the thesis which suggests
\setcounter{tocdepth}{n}
where n starts at zero for only the highest level division. This is presumable defined in all the default styles, but is worth a try in doxygen.
You could write a Perl/Awk script to simply delete the unwanted lines from the table of contents. For the file burble.tex, Latex will generate the file burble.toc, which will contain lines such as:
\contentsline {subsection}{Class F rewrites}{38}
\contentsline {subsection}{Class M rewrites}{39}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7}Definition and properties of the translation}{44}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Well-formedness}{54}
Simple regexes will identify which levels each line belongs to, and you can filter the file based on that. Once you have the table of contents the way you want it, insert \nofiles in the appropriate place (the style sheet?), which means that Latex will read the auxiliary files but not overwrite them.