I need to put Reports into a web application and have selected BIRT. I would like to add the following functionality:
Put custom code into generated HTML code of BIRT chart.
Scaling Images of generated charts of a design, to generate multiple reports of the same kind but differs in generated image size.
Generating image stream of a BIRT chart report so that the stream can be written directly into response output stream.
Any help, clue, external resource or advice on the above points, will be highly appreciated!
Edit:
Or any clues on the points, like even possible or not is also appreciated.
No idea about first question.
To re-size image:
Consider having a look at HTMLServerImageHandler
HTMLRenderOption htmlOptions = new HTMLRenderOption(options);
htmlOptions.setImageHandler(new HTMLServerImageHandler()); // your implementation goes here
runAndRenderTask.setRenderOption(htmlOptions);
Documentation for RenderOption says:
Still Image Render option is waiting to be implemented. Additionally
this is a place to contribute. So you can give a thought on this.
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I have an Android app that generates documents with each client's info based in a template, and that the client can sign. The signature is then jointed into the document, and the whole doc is converted to image and uploaded to a server.
Despite being converted to image, the objective is to be as similar as possible to the A4 format.
For this I use WebView, and then I convert it to Bitmap based on the width and height of an ScrollView.
For the signature I use Canvas.
But I'm not sure this approach is the best, as it is very difficult to simulate an A4 document. Depending on the device, the dimensions of the doc are not proportional and to be I would have to be adjusting based on each device display size. Because of that, this component of the app is not available in some devices, purposefully. But now we want to make it available to every device.
What approach do you recommend? Is there some way of develop one doc fits all with correct proportions and similar aspect?
Thanks in advance.
Print to a PDF file. You can use Flying Saucer for that, or similar libraries.
PDF is famous for sticking to definitions and is especially fitted to the needs of proper scaling and displaying.
You could even get away from the doc template and only use (X)HTML to design and fill the page.
Simply fill in some HTML, link an image (<img src='rel.jpg'>), send all that to FlyingSaucer, and you're done.
I'm trying to generate an xsl to be printed in a pre-printed sheet which works fine.
Now i want to give the user a better previsualization (in the pdf screen version) adding a background image which emulates the "pre-printed" stuf on the sheet to give the user a "context" of what is he printing.
The question is: Is there any way I can set a background image in xsl (using apache fop) visible only in pdf but not in the printed version of it?
Thank you all for reading or givin any advice.
Although as the comments state, you can't have content in the PDF that does not come out in a physical printed copy, here is one possible work around for you. Depending on how your users are ultimately going to be using FOP for PDF rendering and how your a driving the work flow, it's possible to pass a parameter into an xslt file before the transofrmation phase is run, so potentially, you could do a dual rendering of the same PDF, one that is presented to the user where the background image is enabled, and one that gets printed, you could just set a variable similar to how they do in this Example, and call it something like $isPreview, and just use a simple if or choose statement to check for 'Y' or 'N'.
Since you are sending to a printer, you may even want to take advantage of FOP's ability to generate to Postscript rather than PDF, I've used this feature quite extensively for print documents using FOP while also producing a PDF copy for electronic delivery via email or hosted services, and I've yet to find any discrepancy between the PDF rendering and what is printed after sending a rendered postscript file, so it should work well for you as well.
As I said, this is not truly a solution to your problem as you've presented it, but as a work around, it could get you the desired results if your clever about how you implement it.
I don;t think the statement that it is not possible is true, I am just not sure how to create such a PDF with FOP. Certainly you can add an image field. One would use a button field and place the image in the button. Then you would set the properties of that button to not print (printable false).
PDF support images in fields: https://answers.acrobatusers.com/adding-image-field-form-q41825.aspx
RenderX supports PDF Form fields but I do not see where they support an image inside the button, only text: http://www.renderx.com/reference.html#PDF%20Forms. But they do support setting a field to "printable".
first of all: My goal is to just load a PDF, highlight words from that PDF (Page) and show that Page / PDF to the user as Image.
Till now i parse the PDF with a custom Text-Stripper to get all word-positions with their coordinates ( needed to generate a rectangle for highlighting later)
After that i started to generate PDAnnotationTextMarkup's so. Now i'm at this point where i can see my annotations well if i save the pdf to a file and view it with a PDFReader by choice. But if i use the convertToImage Method given by PDFBox, i only get a normal page rendered without annotations.
After a little time on google i found: PDFBOX-2019 which was mentioned in another stackoverflow question
Now im looking for a workaround because i think the ticket history is showing that no one will fix that issue in about a year.
Anybody a good idea to fix that and achieve my goal?
thanks in advance
ben
I'm using DocX4J for creating an excel file. Now I want to give some rows a background color, depending on a calculation done before creating the excel.
However, I can not find a method or something to add a backround color for a row.
The Java-Doc is also not very helpful.
I thought about coloring each cell, but cells also don't have a proper method. (They don't have any proper-named methods at all ...).
Anybody knows a hint? It is really difficult to find some documentation ...
I think you need to add a row element to worksheet/sheetData, for example:
<row r="2" s="1" customFormat="1" />
and corresponding entries in the styles part. Look at fills, cellStyleXfs, cellXfs.
You can research these by looking them up in the spec, at http://webapp.docx4java.org/OnlineDemo/ecma376/SpreadsheetML/index.html
When you are ready to code, you can upload an xlsx which contains whatever it is you want, then click to have code generated for you.
In short, your best approach, once you have a basic understanding of Open XML parts and docx4j's JAXB based approach to them, is to use the code generator, and the spec, and beyond that, docx4j's source code.
I want to know if there is any solution for the following scenario:
I have an application which uploads the files, after scanning and transcoding them, onto a server. Suppose, an image file is being uploaded which has been tampered with some additional contents over it. Now, as the uploaded file is illegitimate, I want to remove the additional tampered contents and upload just the original part of this image file. Is it possible to do so in Java?
Thanks.
It's not possible to detect in the general case, but there are some heuristic methods available to determine whether an image has been edited. Try using the tools at http://imageedited.com/ to get an idea of what's possible.
Removing the edit is a much more difficult problem, which is probably impossible with current methods.
I'm just speculating here, and I don't know how well it would work in practice, but you could do it if you limit to specific sources of tampering. E.g., suppose you want to remove the logo added to an image by memegenerator.net.
You know in advance what the text looks like and where it is. Create a transparent png template that matches the text. Then sum the differences between the image and template pixel colors, multiplying each by the alpha of the template pixel. Since for this particular logo, it's basically white (although it seems to have a thin black shadow) you would get false positives for a picture with a white part there, so you'd also need to verify that the surrounding pixels are (within a tolerance) not white. It's not clever but it could work for certain sites.
For anything more flexible (e.g., logos on images which have subsequently been resized) you're in to the territory of OCR and TinEye-like image matching, which are more advanced than I could advise you on.
To correctly detect all kinds of "tampering" and filter "illegitimate" from "legitimate" in general, you'd need an artificial intelligence that could understand the meaning and context of what it's seeing. The short answer is: you can't. That's what humans are for.
If this is for a website, probably the best thing you can do is a report button that lets users of your site report images that don't fit with your site's rules.