How to create a TOC when merging documents?
I'm doing the following:
Document document = new Document(); PdfCopy copy = new PdfCopy(document, outputStream); PdfCopy.PageStamp stamp; document.open(); PdfReader reader; ListInputStream> pdfs = streamOfPDFFiles; ListPdfReader> readers = new ArrayListPdfReader>(); IteratorInputStream> iteratorPDFs = pdfs.iterator(); for (; iteratorPDFs.hasNext(); pdfCounter++) { InputStream pdf = iteratorPDFs.next(); reader = new PdfReader(pdf); readers.add(reader); pdf.close(); } int currentPageNumber = 0; IteratorPdfReader> readerIterator = readers.iterator(); PdfImportedPage page; int count = 1; while (readerIterator.hasNext()) { reader = readerIterator.next(); count++; int number_of_pages = reader.getNumberOfPages(); for (int pageNum = 0; pageNum number_of_pages;) { currentPageNumber++; page = copy.getImportedPage(reader, ++pageNum); ColumnText.showTextAligned(stamp.getUnderContent(), Element.ALIGN_RIGHT, new Phrase( String.format("%d", currentPageNumber), new Font(FontFamily.TIMES_ROMAN,3)), 50, 50, 0); stamp.alterContents(); copy.addPage(page); } } document.close();
Posted on StackOverflow on Feb 4, 2014 by Butani Vijay
You're asking for something that should be trivial, but that isn't. Please take a look at the MergeWithToc example. You'll see that your code to merge PDFs is correct, but in my example, I added one extra feature:
Text text = new Text(String.format("Page %d", pageNo));
entry.getValue().copyPagesTo(i, i, pdfDoc);
if (i == 1) {
text.setDestination("p" + pageNo);
}
doc.add(new Paragraph(text).setFixedPosition(pageNo, 549, 810, 40));
For every first page, I define a named destination as a local destination. We use p
followed by the page number as its name.
We'll use these named destinations in an extra page that will serve as a TOC:
PdfDocument tocDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(src3));
tocDoc.copyPagesTo(1, 1, pdfDoc);
tocDoc.close();
float y = 770;
for (Map.Entry entry : toc.entrySet()) {
Paragraph p = new Paragraph();
p.addTabStops(new TabStop(500, TabAlignment.LEFT, new DashedLine()));
p.add(entry.getValue());
p.add(new Tab());
p.add(String.valueOf(entry.getKey()));
p.setAction(PdfAction.createGoTo("p" + entry.getKey()));
doc.add(p.setFixedPosition(pdfDoc.getNumberOfPages(), 36, y, 595 - 72));
y -= 20;
}
for (PdfDocument srcDoc : filesToMerge.values()) {
srcDoc.close();
}
In my example, I assume that the TOC fits on a single page. You'll have to keep track of the y
value and create a new page if its value is lower than the bottom margin.
If you want the TOC to be the first page, you need to reorder the pages in a second go. This is shown in the MergeWithToc2 example.
Click How to create a TOC when merging documents? if you want to see how to answer this question in iText 5.