Hello, I am planning to build some code to create text from richtext (text from rech text editor), is that what you are planning to do?
Regards, Kévin 2011/10/13 Angelo zerr <[email protected]> > Hi PDFBox Team, > > I have started to investigate time with PDFBox to try to provides > High-Level > API to manage paragraph, table widgets etc.... > I recall my problem : we are using iText for our ODT->PDF and Docx->PDF > converter and we wish provides our code for Apache. Problem is iText > license. > So I'm searching PDF API (PDFBox?FOP?) to manage PDF with Java model (not > with XSL-FO). It seems that FOP provides this feature, but it's very hard > to > understand how to manage that? > > I have tried to manage a simple case : a paragraph with some text. I would > like generate PDF with this content: > > ---------------------------- > AAAA BBBB > ---------------------------- > > But not with one String but with 3 Strings (call 3 times > contentStream.drawString(...);) > The solution that I have found to manage that is to store the last X of the > added Stringby using Stringlenght+Font + Font size. Here my code > > ------------------------------------------------------ > import java.io.IOException; > > import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.COSVisitorException; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.edit.PDPageContentStream; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font; > > public class Test3 { > > private static float lastX = 0; > > public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, > COSVisitorException { > PDDocument doc = null; > try { > doc = new PDDocument(); > > PDPage page = new PDPage(); > doc.addPage(page); > > PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc, > page); > > PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD; > long fontSize = 5; > addText("AAAA", font, fontSize, page, contentStream); > addText(" ", font, fontSize, page, contentStream); > addText("BBBB", font, fontSize, page, contentStream); > > contentStream.close(); > > doc.save("test.pdf"); > > } finally { > if (doc != null) { > doc.close(); > } > } > } > > public static void addText(String text, PDFont font, long fontSize, > PDPage page, PDPageContentStream contentStream) throws > IOException { > > // Compute x > float x = lastX; > float nextX = lastX + font.getStringWidth(text) * fontSize / 1000f; > > // Compute Y > float y = page.getMediaBox().getHeight() > - (font.getFontHeight("A".getBytes(), 0, 1) * fontSize / > 1000f); > > contentStream.beginText(); > contentStream.setFont(font, fontSize); > contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(x, y); > contentStream.drawString(text); > contentStream.endText(); > > // Recompute lastX > lastX = nextX; > } > > } > ------------------------------------------------------ > > I would like know if it's the correct mean? If it's OK, I would like know > if > it's possible to retrieve the default Font of the document, because in my > case I have setted the Font? > > My code doesn't manage wrap text and I would like know how to manage that? > > I'm very interested to provides and contribute Hight level API for PDFBox > (paragraph, table...) but if I have no support I will give up my idea (hope > you will understand). > > Thank a lot for your help! > > Regards Angelo > > > > > 2011/9/5 Angelo zerr <[email protected]> > > > Hi Jeremias, > > > > I'm sorry I have not seen your answer > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-odf-dev/201108.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > > When I have studied FOP to manage PDF just with Java PDF widget I have > not > > found documentation so I believed that it was not possible, but it seems > > that is possible. > > That's very cool. I will study that. > > > > Many thanks! > > > > Regards Angelo > > > > > > 2011/9/5 Jeremias Maerki <[email protected]> > > > >> Angelo, > >> as I explained in [1], you don't have to use XSL-FO when using Apache > >> FOP. It supports alternative means to create PDFs. > >> > >> [1] > >> > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-odf-dev/201108.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > >> > >> But of course, Apache PDFBox would profit a lot from a higher-level PDF > >> production API. Any contributions are more than welcome. > >> > >> On 05.09.2011 10:56:20 Angelo zerr wrote: > >> > Hi Jukka, > >> > > >> > Thank a lot for you answer. I have already implemented a docx->PDF and > >> > odt->PDF converters with FOP but I decided to give up for : > >> > > >> > * performance reason. I have used XSLT cache, use xsl:key to compute > the > >> > odt/docx styles but the FOP implementation is less performant than > iText > >> > implementation, because : > >> > * FOP process : odt -> XSLT -> FO -> FOP > >> > * iText process : odt -> ODFDOM (Java) -> iText > >> > * xslt vs Java model : with the iText process, your model is Java, > >> although > >> > with FOP your model is XML. I prefer develop Java instead of XSLT. > >> > > >> > That's why I'm searching Java PDF API like PDFBox to replace iText to > >> > provides our code to Apache. > >> > > >> > Regards Angelo > >> > > >> > 2011/9/5 Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> > >> > > >> > > Hi Angelo, > >> > > > >> > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Angelo zerr <[email protected] > > > >> > > wrote: > >> > > > I suppose that my post was not well explained as I have no answer. > I > >> will > >> > > be > >> > > > very happy to use PDFBox in our XDocReport converter (docx-> PDF > and > >> > > odt-> > >> > > > PDF) but develop converter is a big work and I can not investiaget > >> time > >> > > if I > >> > > > have no support. > >> > > > >> > > There's been some interest in making it easier to use PDFBox to > >> > > generate complex new PDF documents, but so far the main use cases > have > >> > > been simpler. You might want to look at Apache FOP > >> > > (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) for a higher-level PDF > >> generation > >> > > tool. > >> > > > >> > > BR, > >> > > > >> > > Jukka Zitting > >> > > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Jeremias Maerki > >> > >> > > >
