I had a similar requirement.
I know this is not the best approach but then I placed another field similar
to the one whose co-ordinates I needed on top of the one whose co-ordinates
i wanted to know and then parsed it using iText and got the co-ordinates
using the method getFieldPositions( ) of AcroFields.
Hope it works :-)
Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote:
>
> Udo Borkowski wrote:
>> Is there a way using iText to get the position of a image
>> (x,y,width,height) in an existing PDF file?
>
> There's no obvious way to find the location of an image
> in an existing PDF in general. You would understand why
> not if you read the PDF Reference Manual. You'd have to
> parse the page content and keep track of the state,
> especially the transformation matrix.
>
>> Here some background: I got some PDF files that contain images ("white
>> rectangles") that server as placeholders in the text.
>
> That's a bad design.
>
>> I plan read that
>> PDF file and then "stamp" data (text or images) on top of this image
>> using the PDFStamper, but I therefore need to know where these
>> rectangles are located. (
>
> Your best shot is to replace the images.
>
>> (I cannot use acroForms elements because the tool that generates the
>> original PDF files does not support acroForms)
>
> Too bad, you should consider using another tool to create
> the PDFs or post process manually with another tool.
> br,
> Bruno
>
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