I decided to use the Splitter class. Thank you very much! Foley
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Gilad Denneboom <[email protected]> wrote: > You can use the > PDFSplit<http://pdfbox.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/pdfbox/PDFSplit.html>class, > or for a more basic approach, the > Splitter<http://pdfbox.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/pdfbox/util/Splitter.html>util > directly. > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Foley Ma <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> I'm trying to use PDFBox to extract a page from a multi page document >> and creating a new document from it. I thought it would be as simple >> as getting the PDPage, get contents..then create a new PDPage, set >> content, and add it to a new PDDocument...but I guess it's not that >> straight forward, or I'm missing something. >> >> If I extract a PDPage, and put that same PDPAge it in a new document >> and save it, it works. >> >> i.e. >> >> InputStream fileStream = >> this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("sample.pdf"); >> PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(fileStream); >> PDPage pdfPage = (PDPage) >> document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0); >> >> PDDocument document2 = new PDDocument(); >> >> >> document2.addPage(pdfPage); >> document2.save("c:\\generatedPDF.pdf"); >> document2.close(); >> >> >> But if I take the PDPage content and create a new PDPage, it doesn't work. >> >> InputStream fileStream = >> this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("sample.pdf"); >> PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(fileStream); >> PDPage pdfPage = (PDPage) >> document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0); >> >> PDDocument document2 = new PDDocument(); >> PDPage testPDPage = new PDPage(); >> >> testPDPage.setContents(pdfPage.getContents()); >> >> document2.addPage(testPDPage); >> document2.save("c:\\generatedPDF.pdf"); >> document2.close(); >> >> >> At the end of the day, what I'm trying to do is extract all the pages >> from the document, store it in a database, retrieve each page sometime >> in the future and create a document with that one page. So, at some >> point I figure I'll be converting the contents inty a bytearray and >> store that, and recreate it. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your time. >> >> Foley >>
