I Tried adding title , but am getting error for pdPageContentStream.drawString();
Error: " drawString(java.lang.String)' is deprecated "
PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
// PDRectangle.LETTER and others are also possible
PDRectangle rect = page.getMediaBox();
document.addPage(page);
try {
// Create a Content Stream
PDPageContentStream pdPageContentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
pdPageContentStream.beginText();
pdPageContentStream.drawString();
pdPageContentStream.endText();
// Creating an PDImageXObject object
PDImageXObject pdImageXObj = PDImageXObject.createFromFile("resources/images/new.png", document);
// Draw that image to the content stream
pdPageContentStream.drawImage(pdImageXObj, 30, 650);
pdPageContentStream.drawString();
// Once all the content is written, close the stream
pdPageContentStream.close();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
I am trying to dynamically add PDF pages depending upon content size.
for that I did not want to clutter the main method, instead I created a separate method to write the PDF and call the method from main() like below:
//PDF Log Method
PDlog("Create First Page", "b");
PDlog("add more page", "b");
PDlog("close pdf", "b");
I have added system.out.println at the end of each if condition, and all three are getting printed on IDE screen. but an Empty PDF is being generated after 3 method calls end. When I had only one if condition and called the PDlog method only once, the PDF is being saved and closed properly.
How can I call this method multiple times from main and keep on adding page and content multiple times?
Below is the method code:
public static void PDlog(String action, String msg) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException, SQLException, InterruptedException, COSVisitorException {
//Master PDF Log File --------------------------------------------------------------------
String masterPDLog = "X:\\eHub\\QA\\eHub_Automation_Log.pdf";
// Create a document and add a page to it
PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
PDPage page = new PDPage(PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4);
if (action.equals("Create First Page")) {
document.addPage(page);
// Create a new font object selecting one of the PDF base fonts
PDFont font = PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN;
PDFont boldFont = PDType1Font.TIMES_BOLD;
//File for CTS Logo --------------------
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(new File("X:\\eHub\\QA\\img\\cts.jpg"));
PDJpeg img = new PDJpeg(document, in);
// Start a new content stream which will "hold" the to be created content
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
//Place CTS Logo
//contentStream.drawImage(img, 500, 750);
contentStream.drawXObject( img, 450, 700, 50, 50 );
// Define a text content stream using the selected font, moving the cursor and drawing the text "Hello World"
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont( boldFont, 20 );
contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.BLUE);
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 120, 650 );
contentStream.drawString("eHub Automated Data Quality Report");
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont( boldFont, 20 );
contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.BLUE);
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 140, 600 );
contentStream.drawString("Data Profiling/Quality/Analysis");
contentStream.endText();
// Make sure that the content stream is closed:
contentStream.close();
//document.save(masterPDLog);
System.out.println("1ST PAGE ADDED");
}
else if (action.equals("add more page")) {
PDFont font = PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN;
document.addPage(page);
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont( font, 20 );
contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.BLACK);
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 100, 800 );
contentStream.drawString("eHub Automated Data Quality Report");
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();
//document.save(masterPDLog);
System.out.println("2ND PAGE ADDED");
}
else if (action.equals("close pdf")) {
PDFont font = PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN;
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont( font, 20 );
contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.BLACK);
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 100, 800 );
contentStream.drawString("eHub Automated Data Quality Report");
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();
document.save(masterPDLog);
document.close();
System.out.println("PDF CLOSED");
}
You create the document each time, that is why.
Just pass the document object to your method, and create the document first - here's your code, corrected:
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, COSVisitorException
{
PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
pdlog("Create First Page", "b", document);
pdlog("add more page", "b", document);
pdlog("close pdf", "b", document);
}
public static void pdlog(String action, String msg, PDDocument document) throws IOException, COSVisitorException
{
//Master PDF Log File --------------------------------------------------------------------
String masterPDLog = "X:\\eHub\\QA\\eHub_Automation_Log.pdf";
// Create a document and add a page to it
PDPage page = new PDPage(PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4);
if (action.equals("Create First Page"))
{
document.addPage(page);
// Create a new font object selecting one of the PDF base fonts
PDFont font = PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN;
PDFont boldFont = PDType1Font.TIMES_BOLD;
//File for CTS Logo --------------------
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(new File("X:\\eHub\\QA\\img\\cts.jpg"));
PDJpeg img = new PDJpeg(document, in);
// Start a new content stream which will "hold" the to be created content
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
//Place CTS Logo
//contentStream.drawImage(img, 500, 750);
contentStream.drawXObject(img, 450, 700, 50, 50);
// Define a text content stream using the selected font, moving the cursor and drawing the text "Hello World"
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont(boldFont, 20);
contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.BLUE);
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(120, 650);
contentStream.drawString("eHub Automated Data Quality Report");
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont(boldFont, 20);
contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.BLUE);
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(140, 600);
contentStream.drawString("Data Profiling/Quality/Analysis");
contentStream.endText();
// Make sure that the content stream is closed:
contentStream.close();
//document.save(masterPDLog);
System.out.println("1ST PAGE ADDED");
}
else if (action.equals("add more page"))
{
PDFont font = PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN;
document.addPage(page);
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont(font, 20);
contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.BLACK);
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 800);
contentStream.drawString("eHub Automated Data Quality Report");
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();
//document.save(masterPDLog);
System.out.println("2ND PAGE ADDED");
}
else if (action.equals("close pdf"))
{
PDFont font = PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN;
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont(font, 20);
contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.BLACK);
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 800);
contentStream.drawString("eHub Automated Data Quality Report");
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();
document.save(masterPDLog);
document.close();
System.out.println("PDF CLOSED");
}
}
Your "close pdf" action does not make much sense, you are writing to a PDPage that is never appended.
1st of all, thanks Tilman for answering my actual question.
In the meantime, for practical purposes, I have changed my approach to writing dynamically to a PDF, as the code flows through If Else and Loops.... instead I have chosen to simply keep on Logging to simple text file using PrintWriter.
At the final end of the code, I am calling a method to Read each line of the Text Log file and place in a PDF document. To Summarize: One time Text to PDF conversion.
I explored iText and chose it over Apache PDFBox, it is perhaps 2-3 times faster than PDFBox and adding page is implicit and automatic.
I've been using PDFBox in an attempt to spit out an auto-generated PDF based off an existing template. The code below fails at finalDoc.save() with an IndexOutOfBoundsException and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
PDDocument finalDoc = new PDDocument();
for (StudentEN student : students) {
PDDocument document = PDDocument.load("template.pdf");
PDPage page = (PDPage) document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0);
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page, true, true);
contentStream.beginText();
// Draw stuff
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();
finalDoc.addPage(page);
document.close();
}
finalDoc.save(response.getOutputStream());
finalDoc.close();
Any help is greatly appreciated!
PDFMergerUtility did the job for me:
PDFMergerUtility finalDoc = new PDFMergerUtility();
for (StudentEN student : students) {
PDDocument document = PDDocument.load("template.pdf");
PDPage page = (PDPage) document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0);
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page, true, true);
contentStream.beginText();
// Draw stuff
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
document.save(out);
finalDoc.addSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(out.toByteArray()));
document.close();
}
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
finalDoc.setDestinationStream(response.getOutputStream());
finalDoc.mergeDocuments();
whats the best way to embedded a java GUI component such as JPanel to pdf using PDFBox?
Im currently using this code:
PDDocument doc = null;
PDPage page = null;
PDXObjectImage ximage = null;
try {
doc = new PDDocument();
page = new PDPage(PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4);
doc.addPage(page);
PDPageContentStream content = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page);
BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage((int)PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4.getWidth()*2,(int)PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4.getHeight()*2, BufferedImage.TYPE_4BYTE_ABGR);
Graphics2D g = image.createGraphics();
g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION,RenderingHints.VALUE_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION_QUALITY);
g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING,RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);
g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS, RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);
g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);
panel.setBounds(0, 0,(int)PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4.getWidth()*2,(int)PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4.getHeight()*2);
panel.doLayout();
panel.validate();
panel.paint(g);
g.dispose();
ximage = new PDPixelMap(doc, image);
content.drawXObject(ximage, 0 , 0 ,(int)PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4.getWidth(),(int)PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4.getHeight() );
content.close();
if (path==null || path.equals(""))
doc.print();
else
doc.save(path);
doc.close();
} catch(Exception ie) {
ie.printStackTrace();
}
but two problems that i got with it is 1. sometimes i am getting a blank pdf for some reason, and 2. when it works the PDF looks pixelated.
is there a better way?
PS: i am not allowed to use iText in my project
Because you add the (vector) panel graphics to the PDF page through a PDFPixelMap, the panel graphics will always be pixelated (converted to a raster).
If you want to prevent rasterization, you would have to use the vector drawing commands such as drawLine, stroke, drawText, etc. instead.
When generating a PDF form BMP the result is allways curios.
Input "hellowworld.bmp"
Output (only the relevant part)
why is there a loss of quality
why is it repeated three times
why is there a black square ( green Frame)
Heres how i test it:
#Test
public final void testWriteSingleBMPtoPDF() throws IOException {
Assert.assertTrue("File existst", TestFileHelper.getBMP(BMPS.HELLOWORLD).exists());
Assert.assertTrue("File readable", TestFileHelper.getBMP(BMPS.HELLOWORLD).canRead());
ArrayList<File> doc = new ArrayList<EncodedPage>();
doc.add(createPage(BMPS.HELLOWORLD));
File result = null;
try {
result = ConvertPDF.bmpToPDF(doc);
} catch (COSVisitorException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Assert.assertTrue("File existst", result.exists());
Assert.assertTrue("File readable", result.canRead());
System.out.println("Please Check >"+result+"<");
}
Heres the part of my java implementation
public static File bmpToPDF(ArrayList<File> inputDoc)
PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
String saveTo = "C:\\temp\\" + System.currentTimeMillis() + ".pdf";
for (File bmpPage : inputDoc) {
PDPage page = null;
PDXObjectImage ximage = null;
page = new PDPage();
document.addPage(page);
BufferedImage awtImage = ImageIO.read(bmpPage);
ximage = new PDPixelMap(document, awtImage);
PDPageContentStream content = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
content.drawImage(ximage, 0, 0);
content.close();
}
document.save(saveTo);
document.close();
return new File(saveTo) ;
Version of Apache PDFBox is 1.7.1