Re: [iText-questions] Can i create a pdf template for a pdf and add it to another pdf ???

Krishna Kishore .J Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:25:46 -0700

Hi Bruno,

You are right, I got it now.

I have one more issue in the same context.

Pls look in to the below code where i am converting a page as PdfTemplate and adding it to the original pdf at some location.

i have a problem in setting the page as template to the pdfcontentbyte ( cb.addTemplate(page2, 0,-100 ); ),

as i am getting the y-co-ordinate of the last row of the table displayed dynamically, i want to use this to position the table, but when i use this ,its overlapping with the table. when i give the y-cordinate as -100 ,its positioning correctly after the table. i am not able to understand the reason for this. do you have any clue regarding this ???

public void renderFinalDocument(String inputFileName, String outputFileName) throws Exception{
     PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(inputFileName);
        System.out.println( "No of Pages to be rendered --> "+ reader.getNumberOfPages() );
  FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(outputFileName);

Rectangle psize = reader.getPageSize(1);

Document document = new Document(psize);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, out);

document.open();

        PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
        PdfImportedPage page1 = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 1);
        PdfImportedPage page2 = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 2);

        cb.addTemplate(page1, 0, 0);
        //Add a new Page for the original PDF (so that we can test Table creation)
     //   document.newPage();
        float y = populateTableElements(cb, 10, 450);

        //----------------------------------------------------
        //FIXME:
        //At this point we need to check if everything fits in one page..
        // There is a method to do this..
        //----------------------------------------------------

System.out.println("Y Coordinate of Table elements = "+y);

Rectangle boundingBox = page1.getBoundingBox();
System.out.println("Height of Page = "+ boundingBox.height());

        //FIXME: Need to translate this Y-coordinate using the TLM (as in PDF Spec.) using Affine Transform

        //Add a new Page for the original PDF (so that we can test Table creation)
     //   document.newPage();
        cb.addTemplate(page2, 0,-100 );

document.close();
}

Thanks in advance

Krishna Kishore

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