If no exception is thrown my guess is that your PDF has a crop box and you are
writing the footer outside the visible area.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Peter Delahunty
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] PdfStamper not working on some PDF's
>
>
> Hi All
>
> Have written some code using itext framework to write a
> footer to each page
> in a PDF.
>
> String origninalPdf = "test.pdf";
> String outputPdf = "test-stamped.pdf";
> String text "hello from me";
>
> PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(originalPdf);
>
> PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new
> FileOutputStream(outputPdf));
> BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA,
> BaseFont.WINANSI,
> BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
> int total = reader.getNumberOfPages();
>
> for (int i = 1; i <= total; i++) {
> Rectangle rectangle = reader.getPageSize(i);
> float pageHeight = rectangle.getHeight();
> float pageWidth = rectangle.getWidth();
> PdfContentByte over = stamper.getOverContent(i);
> over.beginText();
> float fontSize = getFontSize();
> over.setFontAndSize(bf, fontSize);
>
> float stringWidth = over.getEffectiveStringWidth(text, false);
> float x = getXPostition(pageWidth, stringWidth);
> float y = getYPostition(pageHeight);
>
> over.setTextMatrix(x, y);
> over.showText(text);
> over.endText();
> }
>
> stamper.close();
> reader.close();
>
> The problem i am having is. The code works fine on the PDF's
> i create using
> Open Office and some other ones i have eg (the itext in
> action book) . I run
> my code and open the file in a reader and can see my footer.
>
> However it does NOT work for other PDF's.
>
> Can anyone tell me why PdfStamper would not work under some
> circumstances eg
> (security issues, permissions, pdf versions etc)
>
> Can i get it throw an error if it failed to work.
>
> many regards in advance Pete
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