I am using iText to create a PDF that has my own text at the top followed by a reduced size image of another PDF. I currently have a problem because when my code adds the imported PDF to the output PDF, some of the text above the imported PDF is obscured.
My program starts at the top adding text and some graphic elements to the output PDF. I do not know in advance how much space will be needed for this part. When that part is done I calculate the scale factor needed to put the reduced size imported image in the remaining space on the page. If I comment out the one line that adds the imported PDF, the text is fine. But when that line is included in the program, part of the text above the image is covered. The problem only happens when the CropBox of the imported PDF is smaller than the MediaBox. Apparently, the addTemplate method ignores the CropBox and "shows" some of the imported PDF that is outside the CropBox. If I test with a PDF that has been cropped so only a portion of the visible elements fall within the CropBox , when the PDF is added to my output PDF the whole imported page is visible, not just the cropped section. Is there any way to limit an imported page to just the CropBox? Is there any way to add a portion of a template? Is there any way to do this? I am using itext-paulo-100.jar, because the latest official release had a problem with getting the CropBox size and I had trouble getting any CVS client to be able to access the latest source. ====here is a code snippit===== PdfReader reader = new PdfReader( ... ); Rectangle psize = reader.getCropBox(1); // get the crop of the first page Rectangle msize = reader.getPageSize(1); // get the size of the first page // Compute the appropriate scale ... scale = ... PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent(); PdfImportedPage page1 = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 1); //get page 1 cb.addTemplate(page1, scale, 0, 0, scale, xPos-lImg, marginBottom-bImg+2); =======end snippit========== If I use getDirectContent, as shown here, the image outside the CropBox obscures the text I added before the image. If I use getDirectContentUnder, the image appears underneath the text. TIA Steve Steve Fyfe CNI Corporation 394 Elm Street Milford NH 03055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (603) 673-6600 x242 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
