create external link in existing pdf

["Paulo Soares" <psoares (at) consiste.pt>]

You are doing it the correct way but you'll have to change the
rectangle. Try:

over.setAction(action,100f,100f,200f,200f);

Paulo

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> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 9:22 PM
> To: itext-questions (at) lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [iText-questions] create external link in existing pdf
> 
> 
> I am wanting to add an external link to an existing page from 
> a pdf.  If I
> understand it correctly, I use the PdfStamper object.  In my 
> complete code,
> I will calculate the X,Y coordinates & the width,height.
> 
> Here is my code so far (it does not work)...
> 
> import java.io.FileOutputStream;
> import java.net.URL;
> 
> import com.lowagie.text.Anchor;
> import com.lowagie.text.Annotation;
> import com.lowagie.text.Document;
> import com.lowagie.text.Rectangle;
> import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfAction;
> import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
> import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
> import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper;
> 
> public class Main {
> 
> 	public static void main(String[] args) {
> 		
> 		try {
> 			PdfReader reader = new 
> PdfReader("c:\\data\\APlainTest.pdf");
> 			int n = reader.getNumberOfPages();
> 			
> 			PdfStamper stamp = new PdfStamper(reader,new
> FileOutputStream("c:\\data\\itext.pdf"));
> 			
> 			int i = 0;
> 			PdfContentByte under;
> 			PdfContentByte over;
> 			
> 			while (i < n) {
> 				i++;
> 				
> //I don't know how to add this to the existing page, so I 
> tried a PdfAction,
> that still did not work
> Annotation a1 = new Annotation(100f,100f,100f,100f,new
> URL("http://www.pubpress.com";));
> 				
> 				
> 				under = stamp.getUnderContent(i);
> 				PdfAction action = new 
> PdfAction(new URL("http://www.mytestsite.com";));
> 				
> under.setAction(action,100f,100f,100f,100f);
> 				
> 				over = stamp.getOverContent(i);
> 				
> over.setAction(action,100f,100f,100f,100f);
> 				
> 			}
> 			
> 			stamp.close();
> 			
> 		}
> 		catch (Exception e) {
> 			
> 		}
> 	}
> 	
> }
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