when extracting the first page of a PDF I get java.io.IOException: Missing descendant font dictionary.
The extraction code is the following:
PDDocument pdDocument = PDDocument.load(file);
PageExtractor pageExtractor = new PageExtractor(pdDocument, 1, 1);
PDDocument singlePageDocument = pageExtractor.extract();
It only happens with few PDFs and the error points to the Fonts definitions, but I am unclear on how fonts in PDF are processed by Apache PDFBox (using version v2.0.18).
Any tip?
Thanks
I'm having an issue with PDF box flattening a PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat DC.
The Adobe Acrobat text field I created is absolutely the default text field.
In my example below, I have a PatientName field with the text value "Douglas McDouggelman".
When I flatten the PDF, here's what it looks like:
Anyone know what's up with this bizarre spacing?
It appears that the space + next character are combined. This is what it looks like when you try to select that character.
Code:
try (PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(pdfFormInputStream)) {
PDDocumentCatalog catalog = document.getDocumentCatalog();
PDAcroForm acroForm = catalog.getAcroForm();
acroForm.getField("PatientName").setValue("Douglas McDouggelman");
ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
if (flattenPdfs) {
acroForm.flatten();
}
document.save(byteArrayOutputStream);
}
I realized this PDF was from some other group who made it and who knows what they did. So I found the source word document, repeated the creation of the form from Adobe DC, added the fields back to the document, then it was totally fine.
PDF box was not the problem... it was some unknown incorrect step that the person who originally prepared the pdf did.
I have the data containing emoji in database. I want to display in the generated document such as pdf or in excel format.
I am using spring boot application. Please suggest any java library for generating either PDF or excel which supports emoji.
iText supports this. Assuming
your emoji is a unicode character
you use a font that contains the correct glyph for this unicode character
Best way to test this is to try it.
This is how to get started with iText:
https://developers.itextpdf.com/content/itext-7-jump-start-tutorial/installing-itext-7
And this is a small code-snippet that adds text to a document with different fonts:
PdfDocument pdf = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest));
Document document = new Document(pdf);
PdfFont font = PdfFontFactory.createFont(FontConstants.TIMES_ROMAN);
PdfFont bold = PdfFontFactory.createFont(FontConstants.TIMES_BOLD);
Text title =
new Text("The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde").setFont(bold);
Text author = new Text("Robert Louis Stevenson").setFont(font);
Paragraph p = new Paragraph().add(title).add(" by ").add(author);
document.add(p);
document.close();
For more information check out the tutorials.
https://developers.itextpdf.com/content/itext-7-building-blocks/chapter-1
I am filling up a PDF form using library pdfbox 1.8.10. Unfortunately if there is a non ASCII text, the whole text gets scrambled. But it is okay when using itext library. But I need to stick with pdfbox...
How to make pdfbox processing unicode correctly?
See comparison:
That strange "by" prefix is always the same.
Some files:
Original PDF form created with Apache Acrobat DC
PDF produced by itext
PDF produced by pdfbox
Code snippets used are simple:
// pdfbox
PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog();
PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm();
PDField field = acroForm.getField("name1");
field.setValue("hello жмкул!");
// itext
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(inPdfFile);
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(outPdfFile));
AcroFields form = stamper.getAcroFields();
form.setField("name1", "hello жмкул!");
This is not a duplicate question. I had searched and tried many options before posting this question.
We have a web page, in which user should be able to input data in text boxes, text areas, images and also Rich Text editors. This data has to be filled in an existing report, like filling the blanks.
I was able to achieve the functionality using Apache FOP when the user input is simple text. But Apache FOP doesn't work if the user input is Rich Text(html format). FOP will not render html, and it just pushes the html code(ex: <strong> XYZ /strong>) into the pdf.
I tried using iText, but the setback here is that even though iText supports rendering of html to pdf, it is not able to place the images, that are included in <img> tags, in the pdf file.
I can try to create a pdf using iText api block by block, but the problem is rich text data entered by the user can not be embedded between the code since building pdf block by block and html to pdf can not be done together in iText. Or at least that is what I think from my experience.
Is there any other way to create a pdf file from java with images, rich text rendering as it is, headers and footers?
iText provides the capability to convert HTML Data to Pdf. Below is the snippet to do it :
Lets assume the html data is available as Input Stream (If its a String then we can convert it to InputStream using Apache Commons - IOUtils)
InputStream htmlData; // Html Data that needs to converted to Pdf
ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter pdfWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, outputStream);
document.open();
// convert the HTML with the built-in convenience method
XMLWorkerHelper.getInstance().parseXHtml(pdfWriter, document, htmlData);
document.close();
// outputStream now has the required pdf data
I am working as Social Media Developer for Aspose and to add rich text to a form field in PDF file, you can try our Aspose.Pdf for Java API. Check the following sample code:
// Open a PDF document
com.aspose.pdf.Document pdfDocument = new com.aspose.pdf.Document("c:\\data\\input.pdf");
//Find Rich TextBox field using Field Name
RichTextBoxField textBoxField1 = (RichTextBoxField)pdfDocument.getForm().get("textbox1");
//Set the field value
textBoxField1.setValue("<strong> XYZ </strong>");
// Save the modified PDF
pdfDocument.save("c:\\data\\output2.pdf");
I am not trying to market or promote this product. This api actually solved our problem so thought of mentioning it as it might help fellow developers. please let me know if this is against your policy.
I finally realized that the solution for my requirement can not be achieved with either FOP, iText, Aspose, Flying Saucer, JODConverter.
I found a paid api Sferyx. This api allows to render a very complex html to pdf almost preserving the original style. It also renders the images included in the html. We are still exploring this api and will post what other features this api provides.