Re: object stream with direct Length field

[Frank Cornelis]

Nevermind, the answer is found in COSWriter:
    COSInteger cosInteger = COSInteger.get(the_bytes_to_write.length);
    cosInteger.setDirect(true);
    stream.getStream().setItem(COSName.LENGTH, cosInteger);


On 09/08/2014 09:24 AM, Frank Cornelis wrote:

Hi,


Per default PDFBox creates an object stream as follows:
1234 0 obj
<<
/Length 5678 0 R
>>
stream
...
endstream
endobj

However, what I would like to achieve is:
    /Length 12345678
instead of a reference to an object that holds the length value.

I'm using the following code:

PDStream stream = new PDStream(new COSStream(new RandomAccessBuffer()));

    OutputStream outputStream = stream.createOutputStream();
    IOUtils.write(the_bytes_to_write, outputStream);
    outputStream.flush();
    outputStream.close();
    some_array_structure.add(new PDObjectStream(stream.getStream()));

If I try and add:
    stream.getStream().setDirect(true);

I get an empty stream object. Is this a bug in PDFBox, or is there another way to achieve this?

Kind Regards,
Frank.