pCOS Cookbook

cookbook

interactive/articles

Create a list of all articles contained in a PDF document.

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/*
 * Create a list of all articles contained in a PDF document
 *
 * Required software: pCOS interface 8 (PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9, TET 4.1, PLOP 5.0)
 * Required data: PDF document
 */
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pcos.interactive;

import com.pdflib.IpCOS;

import com.pdflib.cookbook.pcos.pcos_cookbook_example;

public class articles 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(IpCOS p, int doc) throws Exception {
        
        System.out.println("File name: " + p.pcos_get_string(doc, "filename"));

        /* Get the number of articles in the document */
        int articlecount = (int) p.pcos_get_number(doc, "length:articles");
        System.out.print(articlecount + " articles");
        if (articlecount > 0) {
            System.out.print(":");
        }
        System.out.println();

        /* For all articles print all its beads */
        for (int i = 0; i < articlecount; ++i) {
            System.out.println("Title: '"
                + p.pcos_get_string(doc, "articles[" + i + "]/I/Title") + "'");

            int beadcount = (int) p.pcos_get_number(doc, "length:articles[" + i
                + "]/beads");

            for (int k = 0; k < beadcount; ++k) {
                System.out.println("    page "
                    + (int) p.pcos_get_number(doc, "articles[" + i + "]/beads["
                        + k + "]/destpage"));
            }
        }
    }

    public articles(String[] argv, String readable_name, String search_path) {
        super(argv, readable_name, search_path);
    }

    public static void main(String argv[]) {
        articles example = new articles(argv, "Articles", SEARCH_PATH);
        example.execute();
    }
}