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interactive/nested_bookmarks

Create bookmarks which are nested in several levels.

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/*
 * Nested bookmarks:
 * Create bookmarks which are nested in several levels
 * 
 * Create a title page with a top-level bookmark and provide the following
 * pages with bookmarks nested on the second level. Below each of those the
 * second level bookmarks create another bookmark which jumps to a Web site.  
 *
 * Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 10
 * Required data: none
 */
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.interactive;

import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;

public class nested_bookmarks
{
    public static void main (String argv[])
    {
        /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
        String searchpath = "../input";
        String outfile = "nested_bookmarks.pdf";
        String title = "Nested Bookmarks";

        pdflib p = null;
        int exitcode = 0;
        int i, numpages = 5, pagewidth=200, pageheight=100; 
        int bm_planes, bm_plane;
        int x = 20, y = 50;
        
        String planes[] =
        {
            "Giant Wing",
            "Long Distance Glider",
            "Cone Head Rocket",
            "Super Dart",
            "German Bi-Plane"
        };

        try {
            p = new pdflib();

            p.set_option("searchpath={" + searchpath + "}");

            /* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */
            p.set_option("errorpolicy=return");

            if (p.begin_document(outfile, "") == -1)
            throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

            p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
            p.set_info("Title", title);
            
            /* Create the title page with a top-level bookmark */
            p.begin_page_ext(pagewidth, pageheight, "");
            p.fit_textline("Kraxi Paper Planes", x, y, 
                "fontname=NotoSerif-Bold fontsize=14");
            bm_planes = p.create_bookmark("Kraxi Paper Planes", "");
            p.end_page_ext("");

            /* Create further pages with a bookmark each which is nested below the
             * top-level bookmark created above */
            for (i=0; i < numpages; i++)
            {
                int action;
            
                /* Start page */
                p.begin_page_ext(pagewidth, pageheight, "");
            
                /* Output some text on the page */
                p.fit_textline(planes[i], x, y, 
                    "fontname=NotoSerif-Bold fontsize=14");

                /* Create a "Plane" bookmark on the page which is nested under the 
                 * "Kraxi Paper Planes" bookmark */
                bm_plane = p.create_bookmark(planes[i], "parent=" + bm_planes);
            
                /* Create a "URI" action for opening a URL */
                action = p.create_action("URI", "url={http://www.kraxi.com}");
            
                /* Create a bookmark which jumps to be URL defined above. This
                 * bookmark is nested on level three under the "Plane" bookmark
                 * created above. 
                 */
                p.create_bookmark("Jump to the Kraxi Website", 
                     "parent=" + bm_plane + " action={activate=" + action + "}");
       
                p.end_page_ext("");
            }
            p.end_document("");

        } catch (PDFlibException e) {
            System.err.println("PDFlib exception occurred:");
            System.err.println("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname()
                + ": " + e.get_errmsg());
            exitcode = 1;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println(e);
            exitcode = 1;
        } finally {
            if (p != null) {
                p.delete();
            }
            System.exit(exitcode);
        }
    }
}