The fix looks good.

Paulo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Policy for adding unittests?


Excellent information from everyone - thank you.

I did a little digging - and I think I have a fix - but I wanted to make 
sure my fix doesn't have any unexpected consequences before I submit it.

The fix is to add two lines (indicated in comments below) to 
PdfCopy.getImportedPage() :

    public PdfImportedPage getImportedPage(PdfReader reader, int pageNumber) 
{
        if (currentPdfReaderInstance != null) {
            if (currentPdfReaderInstance.getReader() != reader) {
                try {
                    currentPdfReaderInstance.getReader().close();
                    currentPdfReaderInstance.getReaderFile().close();
                }
                catch (IOException ioe) {
                    // empty on purpose
                }
                currentPdfReaderInstance = 
reader.getPdfReaderInstance(this);
                importedPages.put(reader, currentPdfReaderInstance); // add 
this to fix issue +++++++++++++++
            }
        }
        else {
            currentPdfReaderInstance = reader.getPdfReaderInstance(this);
            importedPages.put(reader, currentPdfReaderInstance); // add this 
to fix issue ++++++++++++++++
        }
        return currentPdfReaderInstance.getImportedPage(pageNumber);
    }



Once I make those changes, the unit tests pass, and the XObjects actually 
get written as they should.


Now - is there anything about what I'm doing here that is bad/wrong?

Also, it would be nice to get a quick explanation of why PdfCopy requires a 
special implementation of getImportedPage that changes the 
currentPdfReaderInstance whenever pages are being imported.

Thanks all,

- K


----------------------- Original Message -----------------------

From: "Michael Klink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Cc:
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:10:29 +0100
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Policy for adding unittests?

Kevin, Paulo,

> If I can paraphrase a bit:  if we are re-using the same stamp page,
> it would be more optimal if iText generated a single XObject for it
> and re-use the XObject on each page.

That would be ideal. But as mentioned (and as you saw yourself) even 
stamping from different pages of the same source file fails if you imported 
from some other file inbetween.

The reason are the multiple PdfReaderInstance instances generated in that 
case while only the one of them generated first is stored in 
PdfWriter.importedPages.

> If you open the PDF generated immediately following the failed test
> (if you are on Windows, you can uncomment the openFile(out) line
> in testWithoutReloadingStampReader() ), you'll see that Adobe also
> chokes on the missing Xi1 reference.

Yes, obviously, as the second XObject is not included in the document (due 
to the reason mentioned above), but an indirect reference has been 
created --> Acrobat chokes.

> Can anyone point me in a direction to determine when in the
> PdfContentByte.addTemplate() call the object content for the
> imported page actually gets added to the writer?  The indirect
> reference is certainly being added - but the actual object content
> (i.e. the 10 0 obj ..... stuff) is never making it into the output stream.

It is NOT added to the writer during addTemplate. In that method a 
PdfReaderInstance for that reader is marked for the page in question and is 
offered to the PdfWriter to add it to its importedPages Map. This only 
happens, though, if there is not yet an instance for that very reader added.
During PdfWriter.close() PdfWriter.addSharedObjectsToBody() is called and 
adds the pages marked in the importedPages PdfReaderInstance instances to 
the result document --- and, therefore, any pages marked for import in some 
PdfReaderInstance that has been rejected from being added to importedPages 
are NOT added to the result document.

I wonder why there is an override for the PdfWriter.getImportedPage method 
in PdfCopy. The PdfWriter version looks as though it would work alright for 
PdfCopy, too. I have not yet used PdfCopy very much, so maybe there is some 
reason...

Regards,   Michael.


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