Hi, since there was no other option, I just splitted the three-paged-PDF file and made an overlay to the first page. Afterwards, I merged the PDF again. So, this is not really clean, but it works. If anyone has a better idea, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Best regards, Tobias 2010/11/10 T. Groch <[email protected]> > 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. Groch" <[email protected]> >> > To: >> > [email protected] >> > Date: >> > 11/10/2010 04:47 >> > Subject: >> > Edit existing PDF >> > >> > >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I just followed the example code to write some text inside a created >> > PDPage >> > via PDPageContentStream. >> > >> > How can I read in an existing PDF file and edit a page (let's say the >> > first >> > one) in it? 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