Hi Adam, thanks, the tip with try-catch-finally makes sense. My code is just one of some tries without being clean ;) I hope someone else has got another idea.
Originally I tried PDFBox since I wanted to overlay two PDF files. This works well (generating one with the string and overlaying it to another one). But that just works with a single paged file. I got exceptions if I try to overlay two three-page-PDF files (since I don't want the string on every page). Hopefully no one will be upset if I just ask if there's another framework to get a string inside an already existing PDF?! Thanks in advance. Best regards, Tobias 2010/11/10 <[email protected]> > The code you have is replacing the old content stream with the new > PDPageContentStream. So what you describe is exactly what I'd expect. I > don't know how to accomplish what you're trying to do though. > > On a side note, make sure you always call PDDocument.load() in a try block > and have doc.close() in the finally block. This will make sure your > documents are always closed properly. > > ---- > Thanks, > Adam > > > > From: > "T. Groch" <[email protected]> > To: > [email protected] > Date: > 11/10/2010 09:49 > Subject: > Re: Edit existing PDF > > > > Hi Adam, > > thank you for that tip. In the meantime I managed to get that List of > PDPages, too. But when I change a PDPage it will be empty (except the text > I > put in it). > > Code: > PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(fileFoo); > PDDocumentCatalog cat = doc.getDocumentCatalog(); > List list = cat.getAllPages(); > PDPage page = (PDPage) list.get(0); > PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD; > PDPageContentStream cs = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page); > cs.beginText(); > cs.setFont(font, 10); > cs.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 761); > cs.drawString("Hans Wurst"); > cs.endText(); > cs.close(); > doc.save("c:\\foo.pdf"); > > So, I have the String "Hans Wurst" on the first page, but the original > content is gone. It's just a blank page with the string. > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > > Tobias > > 2010/11/10 <[email protected]> > > > Getting the PDPage from a file is easy. Check this out: > > > > PDDocument source = null; > > try { > > source = PDDocument.load("/home/user/adobe1.7spec.pdf"); > > List<PDPage> pages = source.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages(); > > } finally { > > if(source != null) > > try { source.close(); } catch(Exception sorry) { } > > } > > > > I haven't needed to edit anything other than bookmarks in my PDFs, so I > > can't help you on that front, but I'm sure someone else on the list will > > chime in shortly with some helpful pointers. > > > > ---- > > Thanks, > > Adam > > > > > > > > > > > > From: > > "T. 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