Hi.....if you guys dont mind....here's the code I
wrote.
/*************************************************************************************
Author: Najaf A. Shah
Created: Jan. 11, 2005
Last Revision: Jan. 11, 2005
Purpose: This program can generate a flattened PDF
(outPDF) from a
template (templatePDF) and CustomerStmt object
**************************************************************************************/
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PRAcroForm;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.AcroFields;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.FdfReader;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.Math;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
public class generatePDF
{
public final static int LINES_PER_PAGE = 40;
public final static String TEMP_DIR = "/tmp/";
public static PdfReader originalReader;
public static HashMap cache;
generatePDF(String templateFName, CustomerStmt cust)
throws IOException, DocumentException
{
String outFName = "";
originalReader = new PdfReader(templateFName);
cache = new HashMap();
Date now;
CustomerStmt temp = cust; //make a copy
of the
variable you will be sending to generatePage
String[] stmt_lines =
cust.Statement_Data.split("\n"); //split the statement
data into lines
double num_pages = stmt_lines.length; num_pages =
Math.ceil(num_pages/LINES_PER_PAGE);
String page_names[] = new String[(int)num_pages];
for(int i=0; i < num_pages; i++)
{
temp.Statement_Data = "\n";
for(int j=0; j < LINES_PER_PAGE &&
(LINES_PER_PAGE*i+j) < stmt_lines.length ; j++)
temp.Statement_Data +=
stmt_lines[LINES_PER_PAGE*i+j] + "\n";
now = new Date();
page_names[i] = cust.AccountNum + "_" +
now.getTime() + "_pg" + i + ".pdf";
generatePage(templateFName, TEMP_DIR +
page_names[i] , temp);
}
now = new Date();
outFName = TEMP_DIR + "/" + cust.AccountNum + "_" +
now.getTime() + "_full.pdf";
mergePages(page_names,outFName);
System.out.println(outFName + " " + (int)num_pages);
}
private void mergePages(String[] page_names, String
outFName)
{
try
{
Document document = null;
PdfCopy writer = null;
for(int i=0; i<page_names.length; i++) //for every
page
{
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(TEMP_DIR + "/"
+
page_names[i]);
if(i == 0) //first time around
{
document = new
Document(reader.getPageSizeWithRotation(1));
writer = new PdfCopy(document, new
FileOutputStream(outFName));
document.open();
}
PdfImportedPage page;
page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 1);
//add
the page (only 1 page per pdf)
writer.addPage(page);
PRAcroForm form = reader.getAcroForm();
if (form != null)
writer.copyAcroForm(reader);
}
document.close();
}
catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace();}
}
private void generatePage(String templateFName,
String outFName, CustomerStmt cust) throws
IOException, DocumentException
{
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(originalReader);
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader,new
FileOutputStream(outFName));
AcroFields form = stamper.getAcroFields();
//form.setFields(new FdfReader(dataFName));
form.setFieldCache(cache);
form.setField("address","\n" + cust.ADD1 + "\n" +
cust.ADD2 + "\n" + cust.ADD3 + "\n" + cust.ADD4);
form.setField("account",cust.AccountNum);
form.setField("ssn",cust.SSN);
form.setField("page","11");
form.setField("branch",cust.Branch);
form.setField("statement",cust.Statement_Data);
stamper.setFormFlattening(true);
stamper.close();
}
}
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