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Barcode in PDF not displaying in FireFox [duplicate]

I am running into strange issue with generated pdf's from iText7. The generated pdf's are opening properly in Adobe reader and Chrome browser. But the same pdf is opening partially in the Firefox browser. I am getting the below message in Firefox. The strange thing is other pdf, which are not generated via iText are properly rendering in firefox.
Java code
public static byte[] createPdf(List<String> htmlPages, PageSize pageSize, boolean rotate) throws IOException {
ConverterProperties properties = new ConverterProperties();
// Register classpath protocol handler to be able to load HTML resources from class patch
org.apache.catalina.webresources.TomcatURLStreamHandlerFactory.register();
properties.setBaseUri("classpath:/");
// properties.setBaseUri(baseUri);
FontProvider fontProvider = new DefaultFontProvider(true,false,false);
properties.setFontProvider(fontProvider);
ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PdfDocument pdf = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(byteArrayOutputStream));
PdfMerger merger = new PdfMerger(pdf);
for (String htmlPage : htmlPages) {
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PdfDocument temp = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(baos));
if(rotate) {
temp.setDefaultPageSize(pageSize.rotate()); /** Page Size and Orientation */
} else {
temp.setDefaultPageSize(pageSize); /** Page Size and Orientation */
}
HtmlConverter.convertToPdf(htmlPage, temp, properties);
temp = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray())));
merger.merge(temp, 1, temp.getNumberOfPages());
temp.close();
}
pdf.close();
byteArrayOutputStream.flush(); // Tried this
byteArrayOutputStream.close(); // Tried this
byte[] byteArray = byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray();
Timestamp timestamp = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
try (FileOutputStream fileOuputStream = new FileOutputStream("D:\\Labels\\Label_"+timestamp.getTime()+".pdf")){
fileOuputStream.write(byteArray);
}
return byteArray;
}
Thanks in advance.
Edit 1:
You can find pdf and html/css for reproducing issue here.

When you embedded the images into your html using base64 URIs, something weird happened to the image of the barcode: Instead of the 205×59 bitmap image in labelData/barcode.png you embedded a 39578×44 image! (Yes, an image nearly a thousand times wider than high...)
The iText HtmlConverter embedded that image just fine but apparently Firefox has issues displaying an image with those dimensions even though (or probably because?) it is transformed into the desired dimensions (about four times wider than high) on the label. At least my Firefox installation stops drawing label contents right here. (Beware, the order of drawing in the PDF content is not identical to the of the HTML elements; in particular in the PDF the number 3232000... is drawn right before the barcode, not afterwards!)
On Firefox:
On Acrobat Reader:
Thus, you may want to check the transformation of the bar code image to the base64 image URI in your HTML file.

iText7: Can we specify multiple base Uri while converting html to pdf?

I'm currently using iText 7 to convert HTML to PDF using URL.
The problem is that on the page that I want to convert there are external css files and images that are not coming from the same source:
For example I have an external css file whose path is baseUri1/path-to-file/file.css and I have other images that are from baseUri2/path-to-file2/img.jpg
Here's the code that I am actually using for the conversion
String ADDRESS = "https://www.monagentdevoyages.fr/product?s_pid=4964";
//** The target folder for the result. *//*
String TARGET = "target/results/ch07/";
//** The path to the resulting PDF file. *//*
String DEST = String.format("%surl2pdf_print.pdf", TARGET);
PdfWriter writer = new PdfWriter(DEST);
PdfDocument pdf = new PdfDocument(writer);
PageSize pageSize = new PageSize(850, 1700);
pdf.setDefaultPageSize(pageSize);
ConverterProperties properties = new ConverterProperties();
MediaDeviceDescription mediaDeviceDescription =
new MediaDeviceDescription(MediaType.PRINT);
mediaDeviceDescription.setWidth(pageSize.getWidth());
properties.setMediaDeviceDescription(mediaDeviceDescription);
properties.setBaseUri("https://www.monagentdevoyages.fr/");
HtmlConverter.convertToPdf(new URL(ADDRESS).openStream(), pdf, properties);
When I run this code, I get the following error :
20 --- [nio-9001-exec-9] c.i.s.r.resource.ResourceResolver : Unable to retrieve image with given base URI (https://www.monagentdevoyages.fr/) and image source path (null)
Any idea how to solve this problem please ?

How to copy/move AcroForm fields from one document to new blank one using IText5 or IText7?

I need to copy whole AcroForm including field positions and values from template PDF to a new blank PDF file. How can I do that?
In short words - I need to get rid of "background" from the template and leave only filed forms.
The whole point of this is to create a PDF with content that would be printed on pre-printed templates.
I am using IText 5 but I can switch to 7 if usefull examples would be provided

After a lot of trial and error I have found the solution to "How to copy AcfroForm fields into another PDF". It is a iText v7 version. I hope it will help somebody someday.
private byte[] copyFormElements(byte[] sourceTemplate) throws IOException {
PdfReader completeReader = new PdfReader(new ByteArrayInputStream(sourceTemplate));
PdfDocument completeDoc = new PdfDocument(completeReader);
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PdfWriter offsetWriter = new PdfWriter(out);
PdfDocument offsetDoc = new PdfDocument(offsetWriter);
offsetDoc.initializeOutlines();
PdfPage blank = offsetDoc.addNewPage();
PdfAcroForm originalForm = PdfAcroForm.getAcroForm(completeDoc, false);
// originalForm.getPdfObject().copyTo(offsetDoc,false);
PdfAcroForm offsetForm = PdfAcroForm.getAcroForm(offsetDoc, true);
for (String name : originalForm.getFormFields().keySet()) {
PdfFormField field = originalForm.getField(name);
PdfDictionary copied = field.getPdfObject().copyTo(offsetDoc, false);
PdfFormField copiedField = PdfFormField.makeFormField(copied, offsetDoc);
offsetForm.addField(copiedField, blank);
}
offsetDoc.close();
completeDoc.close();
return out.toByteArray();
}

Did you check the PdfCopyForms object:
Allows you to add one (or more) existing PDF document(s) to create a new PDF and add the form of another PDF document to this new PDF.
I didn't find an example, but you could try something like this:
PdfReader reader1 = new PdfReader(src1); // a document with a form
PdfReader reader2 = new PdfReader(src2); // a document without a form
PdfCopyForms copy = new PdfCopyForms(new FileOutputStream(dest));
copy.AddDocument(reader1); // add the document without the form
copy.CopyDocumentFields(reader2); // add the fields of the document with the form
copy.close();
reader1.close();
reader2.close();
I see that the class is deprecated. I'm not sure of that's because iText 7 makes it much easier to do this, or if it's because there were technical problems with the class.

Vaadin Convert and display image as PDF

Does anyone know how image file can be easily converted into PDF format. What I need is to get the image from database and display it on the screen as PDF. What am I doing wrong? I tried to use iText but with no results.
My code:
StreamResource resource = file.downloadFromDatabase();//get file from db
Document converToPdf=new Document();//Create Document Object
PdfWriter.getInstance(convertToPdf, new FileOutputStream(""));//Create PdfWriter for Document to hold physical file
convertToPdf.open();
Image convertJpg=Image.getInstance(resource); //Get the input image to Convert to PDF
convertToPdf.add(convertJpg);//Add image to Document
Embedded pdf = new Embedded("", convertToPdf);//display document
pdf.setMimeType("application/pdf");
pdf.setType(Embedded.TYPE_BROWSER);
pdf.setSizeFull();
Thanks.

You're not using iText correctly:
You never close your writer, so the addition of the image never gets written to the outputstream.
You pass an empty string to your FileOutputStream. If you want to keep the pdf in memory, use a ByteArrayOutputStream. If not, define a temporary name instead.
You pass your Document object, which is a iText-specific object to your Embedded object and treat it like a file. It is not a pdf-file or byte[]. You'll probably want to pass either your ByteArrayOutputStream or read the temp file as a ByteArrayOutputStream into memory and pass that to Embedded.

Maybe someone will use (Vaadin + iText)
Button but = new Button("FV");
StreamResource myResource = getPDFStream();
FileDownloader fileDownloader = new FileDownloader(myResource);
fileDownloader.extend(but);
hboxBottom.addComponent( but );
private StreamResource getPDFStream() {
StreamResource.StreamSource source = new StreamResource.StreamSource() {
public InputStream getStream() {
// step 1
com.itextpdf.text.Document document = new com.itextpdf.text.Document();
// step 2
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
try {
com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter.getInstance(document, baos);
// step 3
document.open();
document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE); //Something like in HTML :-)
document.add(new Paragraph("TEST" ));
document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE); //Something like in HTML :-)
document.newPage(); //Opened new page
//document.add(list); //In the new page we are going to add list
document.close();
//file.close();
System.out.println("Pdf created successfully..");
} catch (DocumentException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(WndOrderZwd.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
ByteArrayOutputStream stream = baos;
InputStream input = new ByteArrayInputStream(stream.toByteArray());
return input;
}
};
StreamResource resource = new StreamResource ( source, "test.pdf" );
return resource;
}

How to show a limited number of pages of PDF file in JSP using iText?

I have to display a PDF document in a JSP page. The PDF document has 25 pages, but I want to display only 10 pages of the PDF file. How can I achieve this with help of iText?

Assuming you have the PDF file already.
You can use PdfStamper and PdfCopy to slice the PDF up:
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("THE PDF SOURCE");
ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
Document document = new Document();
PdfCopy copy = new PdfCopy(document, outputStream);
document.open();
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, outputStream);
for (int i = 1; i < reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) {
// Select what pages you need here
PdfImportedPage importedPage = stamper.getImportedPage(reader, i);
copy.addPage(importedPage);
}
copy.freeReader(reader);
outputStream.flush();
document.close();
// Now you can send the byte array to your user
// set content type to application/pdf
As for sending the pdf to display, it depends on the way you display it. The outputstream will at the end of the supplied code contain the pages you copy in the loop, in the example it is all of the pages.
This essentially is a new PDF file, but in memory. If it is the same 10 pages of the same file every time, you may consider saving it as a file.