Why would you iterate over the objects w/o any understanding of their context? Wouldn't it make MUCH MORE sense to "walk the tree" - starting at the Catalog/Root and then simply recursing down the object tree based on known relationships?
What use are the objects w/o context? Leonard On 11/1/11 7:55 AM, "Nedim Srndic" <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm sorry, I see now that I wasn't clear enough. I would like to >enumerate every PDF dictionary from a given PDF file, including but not >limited to the Catalog, Pages, Actions, Annotations, Name tree - >everything. Currently I can successfully do that for all dictionaries >that can be located using XRef, but it seems that indirect objects >inside object streams cannot be found this way. I could obviously test >if any of the objects pointed to by the XRef is an object stream and get >all the objects from the stream, but I'm wondering if Poppler has a more >elegant solution. > >Nedim > >On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 11:12 -0700, Josh Richardson wrote: >> What kinds of objects are you interested in? I have a version of >> pdftohtml which I believe is not yet merged into the master repo that >> extracts images and fonts. >> >> --josh >> >> On 10/31/11 9:16 AM, "Nedim Srndic" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >Dear list, >> > >> >I am using the Poppler library (in the src/poppler folder, no bindings, >> >version 7 from the Ubuntu 10.10 repos) and would like to retrieve all >> >objects from a PDF file. Currently, I am running a loop on XRef and >> >getting all the non-null objects from it, but it doesn't seem to >> >retrieve objects from object streams. What solution would you propose >> >for this problem? >> > >> >Thanks, >> >Nedim Srndic >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >poppler mailing list >> >[email protected] >> >http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler >> > >> > > >_______________________________________________ >poppler mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
