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interactive/annotations

Retrieve the contents of all annotations.

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package com.pdflib.cookbook.pcos.interactive;


import com.pdflib.pCOS;

import com.pdflib.pCOSException;

import com.pdflib.cookbook.pcos.pcos_cookbook_example;


/**

 * Retrieve the contents of all annotations.

 * <p>

 * Required software: pCOS interface 3 (pCOS 2.x, PDFlib 7.x, TET 2.2,

 * PLOP 3.x)<br>

 * Required data: PDF document

 *

 * @version $Id: annotations.java,v 1.5 2007/09/20 14:54:36 stm Exp $

 */

public class annotations extends pcos_cookbook_example {


    /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */

    private final static String SEARCH_PATH = "../input";


    public void example_code(pCOS p, String filename) throws pCOSException,

        Exception {

        /* Open the PDF document */

        int doc = p.open_document(filename, "");

        if (doc == -1)

            throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());


        System.out.println("File name: " + p.get_string(doc, "filename"));


        int pagecount = (int) p.get_number(doc, "length:pages");


        for (int page = 0; page < pagecount; page++) {

            String annotation_key = "pages[" + page + "]/Annots";


            String objtype = p.get_string(doc, "type:" + annotation_key);

            if (!objtype.equals("null")) {

                System.out.println("Page " + (page + 1));

               

                int anncount = (int) p.get_number(doc,

                                    "length:" + annotation_key);


                for (int ann = 0; ann < anncount; ann++) {

                    objtype = p.get_string(doc,

                        "type:" + annotation_key + "[" + ann + "]/Contents");

                    String subtype = p.get_string(doc,

                        annotation_key + "[" + ann + "]/Subtype");

                    System.out.print("  Subtype " + subtype + ", ");

                   

                    if (objtype.equals("string")) {

                        String contents = p.get_string(doc,

                            annotation_key + "[" + ann + "]/Contents");

                        System.out.println("contents = '" + contents + "'");

                    }

                    else {

                        System.out.println("no contents found for annotation "

                            + ann);

                    }

                }

            }

        }


        p.close_document(doc);

    }


    public annotations(String[] argv, String readable_name, String search_path,

        String full_rcs_file_name, String revision) {

        super(argv, readable_name, search_path, full_rcs_file_name, revision);

    }


    public static void main(String argv[]) {

        annotations example = new annotations(argv, "Annotations", SEARCH_PATH,

            "$RCSfile: annotations.java,v $", "$Revision: 1.5 $");

        example.execute();

    }

}