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Does Icepdf support creating new documents from scratch within my java app like itext?

Unfortunately it is not possible to build a document from scratch. ICEpdf is primarily a viewer but does have the ability to manipulate annotations.

Hi,

Can you please explain what you mean by the term "Manipulating annotations"? I mean please tell what is the meaning of the term "Pdf annotation". I am a newbie, saw this terminology in all the documentation hence thought of asking the same in the forums.

Thanks,
Butny

I would probably best describe annotations as interactive widgets that can be placed on top of a PDF's page content.

A common example of this is a word in a PDF document that when clicked navigates to another page in the document, this is called an text link annotation. There numerous annotations types, text highlight, pop up text comments, and input forms are common types but there are many more.

Annotation are usually defined by their visual appearance. There is a another component of an annotation that controls what happens when they are interacted with, usually a mouse click or rollover they are called a actions. An annotation can one ore more actions. For example a link annotation may be drawn over a group of words, a mouse over changes the annotation apparence but it's the action that is executed when the link annotation is clicked.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I downloaded the ICEpdf-4.2.2-bin.zip and tried out the example present in it. I have 1 question:

We won't be able to create a pdf using ICEPDF as we do using iText.jar, what we can do is only some visual manipulation with the EXISTING pdf file.

Again, many of the features such as extracting the metadata from the existing pdf, extracting the image from the existing pdf, etc can be done using the iText.jar as well, hence is nt it like using the ICEPDF is just an extra OVERHEAD for our application?

Also what if the next version of iText.jar contain all th EXTRA features povided by ICEPDF? We might prefer using the iText since we are generating the pdf using the iText.jar, then why to add extra overhead?

I am a newbie, plese suggest/advise if i am getting it worng and please correct me.

Thanks for the reply again.

Thanks,
Bunty

Hi,

Any suggestions/advice to my previous post please?

Thanks,
Bunty