Hi Bruno,
I still stuck with that thing and I need your help again. I have the
following code that in principle does want I need:
...
//reading the PDF that contains the text
PdfReader original = new PdfReader("MyOriginalLetter.pdf");
//reading the letterhead PDF
PdfReader letterhead = new PdfReader("MyLetterhead.pdf");
Document document = new Document();
// making new PDF Document
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
FileOutputStream("MyNewLetter.pdf"));
document.open();
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
// shall I first import the letterhead?
PdfImportedPage letterheadImport=writer.getImportedPage(letterhead, 1);
cb.addTemplate(letterheadImport, ?,?);
// and then the text PDF?
PdfImportedPage originalImport=writer.getImportedPage(original, 1);
cb.addTemplate(originalImport, ?,?);
...
- I'm not certain about in what order I must add the templates to the
PdfContentByte. First the letterhead and then the text? Or vice versa?
- I'm not certain about the parameters of the addTemplate() method. Both
documents are DIN A4 sized. What parameters must I use?
- When I add the letterhead first and then the text, the letterhead is
hidden by the text. When I first add the text and then the letterhead,
the watermark of the letterhead is in front of the text and thus hiding
the text.
Thank you
Thomas
Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote:
> Thomas Kuechenthal wrote:
>> I have an existing PDF that contains pure text information.
>>
>> I have a second PDF that I use as a letterhead.(It contains a header, a
>> footer, and a watermark in the middle of the document)
>>
>> With Acrobat 6.0, I can insert the PDF-Letterhead as a background onto
>> the existing Text-PDF.
>>
>> Can I do this with iText also?
>
> Yes.
>
>> I have tried to add images as watermarks, that works very well. But how
>> about adding PDFs as background?
>
> Look for PdfImportedPage.
> It extends PdfTemplate.
> PdfTemplate can be wrapped in an Image,
> but it's not necessary to do so.
>
> Have a look at this example from chapter 14 of
> 'iText in Action' (available as eBook tomorrow):
> http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/examples/chapter14/SimpleLetter.java
>
> Note that in this example, the background
> is added to a layer that is shown on the screen,
> but not printed on paper.
>
> Just remove everything with not_printed
> (don't forget to remove beginLayer and endLayer too)
>
> br,
> Bruno
>
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