Hi Adam, thank you very much. It's just the constructor of PDPageContentStream with the third parameter being "true". It's for "appending content". Works like a charm. Thanks!
Best regards, Tobias 2010/11/12 T. Groch <[email protected]> > Hi Adam, > > thanks, I will try that "getAllPage" next week and let you know if it > works. > > Best regards, > > Tobias > > > 2010/11/12 <[email protected]> > > I just found this article[1] which may help you. >> >> [1] >> >> http://www.smallpawn.com/blog1.php/2010/09/14/insert-text-into-a-pdf-using-java-and-pdfbox >> >> ---- >> Thanks, >> Adam >> >> >> >> >> >> From: >> "T. Groch" <[email protected]> >> To: >> [email protected] >> Date: >> 11/12/2010 03:13 >> Subject: >> Re: Edit existing PDF >> >> >> >> 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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