Hi, sorry for answering that late
Maruan Sahyoun schrieb: > Hi, > > you have to set the media box e.g. > > > document = new PDDocument(); > PDPage page = new PDPage(); > PDRectangle pageFormat = new PDRectangle(843f, 596f); > page.setMediaBox(pageFormat); > document.addPage(page); That is one possible solution, but not the preferred one. AFAIK most(all?) pdf tools are using a portrait pageformat and a transformation matrix to rotate every content of a page. Our test arena contains e.g. the pdf "rotation.pdf". In consists of two pages, one with a portrait orientation and the other with a landscape orientation. This is the definition for the pages, both have the same pageformat Page 1: ======= 7 0 obj << /CropBox [0 0 612 792] /Parent 3 0 R /Contents 10 0 R /Rotate 0 /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] /Resources 11 0 R /Type /Page >> endobj Page 2: ======= 8 0 obj << /CropBox [0 0 612 792] /Parent 3 0 R /Contents 12 0 R /Rotate 90 /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] /Resources 13 0 R /Type /Page >> endobj Both pages are using a transformation matrix for the text. Page 1: ====== uses 12 0 0 12 90 708.96 Tm It describes a scaling with a factor of 12 (and a x-y-translation of 90 708.96) Page 2: ====== uses 0 12 -12 0 101.04 72 Tm It describes a combination of a scaling and a shearing (and a x-y-translation of 101.04 72) The rotate value is only used to automatically rotate the view within the acrobat reader. [1] demonstrates how to set a text matrix using a PDPageContentStream [2]. To rotate other objects than text, the current transformation matrix (pdf operator = cm) has to be used. There is no direct support within the PDPageContentStream but the usage is similar to the text transformation matrix. Be aware that a new text matrix (tm) replaces an old one, but a new current matrix (cm) will be concatenated with the existing one. >> b) Is there a way to "search" the archives? I can browse but cannot find a >> way to do a search. Have a look at [3], it lists several services which can be used to search the mailing lists. BR Andreas lehmkühler [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/trunk/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/UsingTextMatrix.java [2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/trunk/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/edit/PDPageContentStream.java [3] http://pdfbox.apache.org/mailing-list.html
