Hi,
we are spent some hours for developing a new feature for DSpace: adding
cover pages for PDF files. The idea is to create the cover page on the fly,
based on the metadata of the bitstream.
We have edited the BitstreamReader.java. We have added the cover page
insertion before the original *bitstream.retrieve() *in the following way:
// Success, bitstream found and the user has access to read it.
// Store these for later retreval:
// if configured, and if this is a pdf, add the cover page
if
(ConfigurationManager.getProperty("dspace.covering").equals("true"))
if
(bitstream.getFormat().getMIMEType().equals("application/pdf") &&
bitstream.getSize() > 0) {
this.bitstreamInputStream =
addCoverPage(bitstream.retrieve(),item);
}
else
this.bitstreamInputStream = bitstream.retrieve();
The addCoverPage method creates the cover page and merges it with the
original bitstream.
This solution seems to work but we have problems with creation/merging of
PDF files. We have tried PDFBox, but it's quite clumsy: you just can add
some text on the page, no formatting is possible. Our next trial was
FPDF/FPDI. It works but is not a very neat solution.
Has anyone a working solution for the cover page problem? Are there any
plans to include this in tfuture DSpace implementations?
One step further: appearance (logo, licence text) of the cover page should
depend on the owning collection of the bitstream/item.This could be
implemented by 1) searching the owning collection of the bitstream/item from
the database, 2) inserting information corresponding each collection in the
configuration file of DSpace. Is this a feature worth of developing?
Best regards,
Eija
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