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How to add an SVG to a PDF using iText7

I need to add an SVG graphic into PDF file.
Is it that possible using iText7?
Using iText5:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(svgUrl.openStream()));
String xmlParser = XMLResourceDescriptor.getXMLParserClassName();
SVGDocument svgDoc = new SAXSVGDocumentFactory(xmlParser).createSVGDocument(null, in);
in.close();
// Try to read embedded height and width
float svgWidth = Float.parseFloat(svgDoc.getDocumentElement().getAttribute("width").replaceAll("[^0-9.,]",""));
float svgHeight = Float.parseFloat(svgDoc.getDocumentElement().getAttribute("height").replaceAll("[^0-9.,]",""));
PdfTemplate svgTempl = PdfTemplate.createTemplate(writer, svgWidth, svgHeight);
Graphics2D g2d = svgTempl.createGraphics(svgWidth,svgHeight);
GraphicsNode chartGfx = (new GVTBuilder()).build(new BridgeContext(new UserAgentAdapter()), svgDoc);
chartGfx.paint(g2d);
g2d.dispose();
Image img = new ImgTemplate(svgTempl);
I found out that in the following page:
PdfPTable and PdfTemplate
there is a way to create something similar as Template:
PdfFormXObject svgTempl = new PdfFormXObject(new Rectangle(svgWidth, svgHeight));
How can I create Graphics2D?

Coincidentally, we're releasing our SVG implementation today. We don't support the full feature set just yet, we're still working on that in Q2 and beyond, but you can use it already. The artifact is on Maven. The repository is on Github. And the documentation is on our public wiki.
Code samples will be put on the web site, but it's a very simple API, similar to how pdfHtml works. There's an SvgConverter utility class that offers multiple ways to convert to PDF or PDF XObjects.
PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument(
new PdfWriter(pdfOutputStream,
new WriterProperties().setCompressionLevel(0)));
doc.addNewPage();
SvgConverter.drawOnDocument(svg, doc, 1);
doc.close();
Source: I'm an iText developer working on the SVG implementation

Drawing vector images on PDF with PDFBox

I would like to draw a vector image on a PDF with Apache PDFBox.
This is the code I use to draw regular images
PDPage page = (PDPage) document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(1);
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page, true, true);
BufferedImage _prevImage = ImageIO.read(new FileInputStream("path/to/image.png"));
PDPixelMap prevImage = new PDPixelMap(document, _prevImage);
contentStream.drawXObject(prevImage, prevX, prevY, imageWidth, imageHeight);
If I use a svg or wmf image instead of png, the resulting PDF document comes corrupted.
The main reason I want the image to be a vector image is that with PNG or JPG the image looks horrible, I think it gets somehow compressed so it looks bad. With vector images this shouldn't happen (well, when I export svg paths as PDF in Inkscape it doesn't happen, vector paths are preserved).
Is there a way to draw a svg or wmf (or other vector) to PDF using Apache PDFBox?
I'm currently using PDFBox 1.8, if that matters.

See the library pdfbox-graphics2d, touted in this Jira.
You can draw the SVG, via Batik or Salamander or whatever, onto the class PdfBoxGraphics2D, which is parallel to iText's template.createGraphics(). See the GitHub page for samples.
PDDocument document = ...;
PDPage page = ...; // page whereon to draw
String svgXML = "<svg>...</svg>";
double leftX = ...;
double bottomY = ...; // PDFBox coordinates are oriented bottom-up!
// I set these to the SVG size, which I calculated via Salamander.
// Maybe it doesn't matter, as long as the SVG fits on the graphic.
float graphicsWidth = ...;
float graphicsHeight = ...;
// Draw the SVG onto temporary graphics.
var graphics = new PdfBoxGraphics2D(document, graphicsWidth, graphicsHeight);
try {
int x = 0;
int y = 0;
drawSVG(svg, graphics, x, y); // with Batik, Salamander, or whatever you like
} finally {
graphics.dispose();
}
// Graphics are not visible till a PDFormXObject is added.
var xform = graphics.getXFormObject();
try (var contentWriter = new PDPageContentStream(document, page, AppendMode.APPEND, false)) { // false = don't compress
// XForm objects have to be placed via transform,
// since they cannot be placed via coordinates like images.
var transform = AffineTransform.getTranslateInstance(leftX, bottomY);
xform.setMatrix(transform);
// Now the graphics become visible.
contentWriter.drawForm(xform);
}
And ... in case you want also to scale the SVG graphics to 25% size:
// Way 1: Scale the SVG beforehand
svgXML = String.format("<svg transform=\"scale(%f)\">%s</svg>", .25, svgXML);
// Way 2: Scale in the transform (before calling xform.setMatrix())
transform.concatenate(AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(.25, .25));

I do this, but not directly.
In first transform your SVG documents in PDF documents with FOP librairy and Batik.
https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/design/svg.html.
In second times, you can use LayerUtility in pdfbox to transform your new pdf document in PDXObjectForm. After that, just needs to include PDXObjectForm in your final pdf documents.

The final working solution for me that loads an SVG file and overlays it on a PDF file (this renders the SVG in a 500x500 box at (0,0) coordinate which is bottom left of the PDF document):
package com.example.svgadder;
import java.io.*;
import java.nio.*;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.*;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream.AppendMode;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.form.PDFormXObject;
import de.rototor.pdfbox.graphics2d.PdfBoxGraphics2D;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import com.kitfox.svg.SVGDiagram;
import com.kitfox.svg.SVGException;
import com.kitfox.svg.SVGUniverse;
public class App
{
public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception {
App app = new App();
}
public App() throws Exception {
// loading PDF and SVG files
File pdfFile = new File("input.pdf");
File svgFile = new File("input.svg");
PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(pdfFile);
PDPage page = doc.getPage(0);
SVGUniverse svgUniverse = new SVGUniverse();
SVGDiagram diagram = svgUniverse.getDiagram(svgUniverse.loadSVG(f.toURL()));
PdfBoxGraphics2D graphics = new PdfBoxGraphics2D(doc, 500, 500);
try {
diagram.render(graphics);
} finally {
graphics.dispose();
}
PDFormXObject xform = graphics.getXFormObject();
try (PDPageContentStream contentWriter = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page, AppendMode.APPEND, false)) {
AffineTransform transform = AffineTransform.getTranslateInstance(0, 0);
xform.setMatrix(transform);
contentWriter.drawForm(xform);
}
doc.save("res.pdf");
doc.close();
}
}
Please use svgSalamander from here:
https://github.com/mgarin/svgSalamander
Please use what Coemgenus suggested for scaling your final overlaid SVG. I tried the 2nd option and it works well.
Nirmal

GrayScale Images rendering to dark area when written using JAI / ImageIO

Can anyone explain why this happens. I read an image and render it into an output writer. If it is a color file (or black and white), it renders fine. However, if the source image is grayscale, all I get is a black box.
Sample files available at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kyfsh5curobwxrw/AACfWr1NhX8lPUZpzVGWIPQia?dl=0
My pom plugin dependancy snippets follow.
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jai_core</artifactId>
<version>1.1.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.media</groupId>
<artifactId>jai_imageio</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
A test program. I understand that this bit of code in itself is really of no value, but in reality it is part of a larger suite of operations. This code represents my efforts to narrow down the issue to a small piece of code.
import javax.imageio.IIOImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.imageio.ImageReader;
import javax.imageio.ImageWriter;
import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;
import javax.imageio.stream.ImageOutputStream;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
public class GrayScaleImaging {
public static void main(String[] args)
throws IOException {
//works
// final File inputFile = new File("/home/vinayb/Downloads/page1_color.tif");
// final File outputFile = new File("/home/vinayb/Downloads/page1_color_mod.tif");
//doesn't work
final File inputFile = new File("/home/vinayb/Downloads/page1_grayscale.tif");
final File outputFile = new File("/home/vinayb/Downloads/page1_grayscale_mod.tif");
if (outputFile.exists()) {
outputFile.delete();
}
ImageReader imageReader = null;
ImageWriter imageWriter = null;
Graphics2D g = null;
try (final ImageInputStream imageInputStream = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(inputFile);
final ImageOutputStream imageOutputStream = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(outputFile);) {
//setup reader
imageReader = ImageIO.getImageReaders(imageInputStream).next();
imageReader.setInput(imageInputStream);
//read image
final BufferedImage initialImage = imageReader.read(0);
//prepare graphics for the output
final BufferedImage finalImage = new BufferedImage(initialImage.getWidth(), initialImage.getHeight(), imageType(initialImage));
g = finalImage.createGraphics();
//do something to the image
//doSomething(g)
//draw image
g.drawImage(initialImage, 0, 0, initialImage.getWidth(), initialImage.getHeight(), null);
//setup writer based on reader
imageWriter = ImageIO.getImageWriter(imageReader);
imageWriter.setOutput(imageOutputStream);
//write
imageWriter.write(null, new IIOImage(initialImage, null, imageReader.getImageMetadata(0)), imageWriter.getDefaultWriteParam());
} finally {
//cleanup
if (imageWriter != null) {
imageWriter.dispose();
}
if (imageReader != null) {
imageReader.dispose();
}
if (g != null) {
g.dispose();
}
}
}
private static int imageType(BufferedImage bufferedImage) {
return bufferedImage.getType() == 0 ? BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB : bufferedImage.getType();
}
}

Okay, I have now fixed my decoder, thanks for the sample file! :-)
Anyway, after some research, I have come to the conclusion that the problem is definitively the sample file, not your code nor the library you are using.
The issue with this file is that the TIFF metadata contains PhotometricInterpretation == 3/Palette and ColorMap tags. Ie. the image uses indexed color model/palette. If the image is read as it should according to (my understanding of) the spec, using the supplied color map, the image comes out all black. If instead I ignore this, and rather read it as gray scale (assuming PhotometricInterpretation == 1/BlackIsZero), it comes out as black text on white (light gray) background.
Edit:
A better explanation, is that the values in the color map are all 8 bit quantities (using the low 8 bits of each color entry) instead of using the full 16 bit as they should... If I detect this while reading and creating a palette using only the low 8 bits, the image comes out as intended (as in DropBox). This is still a bad image according to the spec, but detectable.

Writing image into pdf file in java

I'm writing a code to convert Microsoft power-point(ppt) slides into images and to write the generated images into pdf file. Following code generates and writes the images into pdf file but the problem i'm facing is, when i write image into pdf file it's size is exceeding the pdf page size and i can view only 75% of the image rest is invisible. One more thing to notice here is, written images in pdf file look like zoomed or expanded. Take a look at the following snippet of code:
for (int i = 0; i < slide.length; i++) {
BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(pgsize.width, pgsize.height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics2D graphics = img.createGraphics();
graphics.setPaint(Color.white);
graphics.fill(new Rectangle(0, 0, pgsize.width, pgsize.height));
slide[i].draw(graphics);
fileName="C:/DATASTORE/slide-"+(i+1)+".png";
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
javax.imageio.ImageIO.write(img, "png", out);
out.flush();
out.close();
com.lowagie.text.Image image =com.lowagie.text.Image.getInstance(fileName);
image.setWidthPercentage(40.0f);
doc.add((image));
}
doc.close();
} catch(DocumentException de) {
System.err.println(de.getMessage());
}
If anybody knows the solution please help me to rectify. Thank you.
Here is the code it accomplishes the task i wished. Now i'm getting the desired results after following Bruno Lowagie recommendations.
But, as Bruno Lowagie pointed out earlier, their is a problem in generated png image. The generated png image is not correct because shape or image in the slide overlaps with the texts of the slide. Can you help me to identify and rectify the error?
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.Image;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import org.apache.poi.hslf.model.Slide;
import org.apache.poi.hslf.usermodel.SlideShow;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
public class ConvertSlidesIntoImages {
public static void main(String[] args){
try {
FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream("C:/DATASTORE/testPPT.ppt");
SlideShow ppt = new SlideShow(is);
is.close();
String fileName;
Dimension pgsize = ppt.getPageSize();
Slide[] slide = ppt.getSlides();
Document doc=new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, new FileOutputStream("c:/DATASTORE/convertPPTSlidesIntoPDFImages.pdf"));
doc.open();
for (int i = 0; i < slide.length; i++) {
BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(pgsize.width, pgsize.height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics2D graphics = img.createGraphics();
graphics.setPaint(Color.white);
graphics.fill(new Rectangle(0, 0, pgsize.width, pgsize.height));
slide[i].draw(graphics);
fileName="C:/DATASTORE/slide-"+(i+1)+".png";
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
javax.imageio.ImageIO.write(img, "png", out);
out.flush();
out.close();
com.itextpdf.text.Image image =com.itextpdf.text.Image.getInstance(fileName);
doc.setPageSize(new com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle(image.getScaledWidth(), image.getScaledHeight()));
doc.newPage();
image.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
doc.add(image);
}
doc.close();
}catch(DocumentException de) {
System.err.println(de.getMessage());
}
catch(Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
Thank you

First this: If the png stored as "C:/DATASTORE/slide-"+(i+1)+".png" isn't correct, the slide in the PDF won't be correct either.
And this: Your code snippet doesn't show us how you create the Document object. By default, the page size is A4 in portrait. It goes without saying that images that are bigger than 595 x 842 don't fit that page.
Now the answer: There are two ways to solve this.
Either you change the size of the image (not with setWidthPercentage() unless you've calculated the actual percentage) and you add it a the position (0, 0) so that it doesn't take into account the margins. For instance:
image.scaleToFit(595, 842);
image.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
doc.add(image);
doc.newPage();
A better solution would be to adapt the size of the page to the size of the image.
Document doc = new Document(new Rectangle(image.getScaledWidth(), image.getScaledHeight()));
// create a writer, open the document
image.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
doc.add(image);
doc.newPage();
If the size of the images varies, you can change the page size while adding images like this:
doc.setPageSize(new Rectangle(image.getScaledWidth(), image.getScaledHeight()));
doc.newPage();
image.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
doc.add(image);
It is important to understand that the new page size will only come into effect after doc.newPage();
CAVEAT 1:
If your PDF only holds the last slide, you're probably putting all the slides on the same page, and the last slide covers them all. You need to invoke the newPage() method each time you add an image (as done in a code snippet in my answer).
CAVEAT 2:
Your allegation is wrong. According to the API docs, there is a method setPageSize(Rectangle rect), maybe you're using the wrong Rectangle class. If you didn't follow my advice (which IMHO wouldn't be wise), you're probably looking for com.lowagie.text.Rectangle instead of java.awt.Rectangle.
CAVEAT 3:
This is similar to CAVEAT 2, there are indeed no such methods in the class java.awt.Image, but as documented in the API docs, the class com.itextpdf.text.Image has a getScaleWidth() method and a getScaledHeight() method.

Write dpi metadata to a jpeg image in Java

I am trying to programatically set the dpi metadata of an jpeg image in Java. The source of the image is a scanner, so I get the horizontal/vertical resolution from TWAIN, along with the image raw data. I'd like to save this info for better print results.
Here's the code I have so far. It saves the raw image (byteArray) to a JPEG file, but it ignores the X/Ydensity information I specify via IIOMetadata. Any advice what I'm doing wrong?
Any other solution (third-party library, etc) would be welcome too.
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.image.WritableRaster;
import java.io.File;
import javax.imageio.IIOImage;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.imageio.ImageTypeSpecifier;
import javax.imageio.metadata.IIOMetadata;
import javax.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriteParam;
import javax.imageio.stream.ImageOutputStream
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter;
public boolean saveJpeg(int[] byteArray, int width, int height, int dpi, String file)
{
BufferedImage bufferedImage = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
WritableRaster wr = bufferedImage.getRaster();
wr.setPixels(0, 0, width, height, byteArray);
try
{
// Image writer
JPEGImageWriter imageWriter = (JPEGImageWriter) ImageIO.getImageWritersBySuffix("jpeg").next();
ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(new File(file));
imageWriter.setOutput(ios);
// Compression
JPEGImageWriteParam jpegParams = (JPEGImageWriteParam) imageWriter.getDefaultWriteParam();
jpegParams.setCompressionMode(JPEGImageWriteParam.MODE_EXPLICIT);
jpegParams.setCompressionQuality(0.85f);
// Metadata (dpi)
IIOMetadata data = imageWriter.getDefaultImageMetadata(new ImageTypeSpecifier(bufferedImage), jpegParams);
Element tree = (Element)data.getAsTree("javax_imageio_jpeg_image_1.0");
Element jfif = (Element)tree.getElementsByTagName("app0JFIF").item(0);
jfif.setAttribute("Xdensity", Integer.toString(dpi));
jfif.setAttribute("Ydensity", Integer.toString(dpi));
jfif.setAttribute("resUnits", "1"); // density is dots per inch
// Write and clean up
imageWriter.write(data, new IIOImage(bufferedImage, null, null), jpegParams);
ios.close();
imageWriter.dispose();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
return false;
}
return true;
}
Thanks!

Some issues that were not considered here:
The tree is not directly mapped to the IOMetaData. To apply data from tree, add following call after setting the densities and raster parameters:
data.setFromTree("javax_imageio_jpeg_image_1.0", tree);
don't use the meta data as first parameter in the write call. See JPEGImageWriter#write(IIOMetaData, IIOImage, ImageWriteParam). If streamMetaData is not NULL, a warning (WARNING_STREAM_METADATA_IGNORED) will be generated.
set the meta data as IOMetadata of the IOImage. These meta data are used by JPEGImageWriter. The correct write call then is
imageWriter.write(null, new IIOImage(F_scaledImg, null, data), jpegParams);

I would seem this could be a bug.
I found this post from a few google searches
Apparently there are alot more that point to a bug as well.
The post above talks about using JMagick as a third party work around.