I am trying to load in a pdf template x number of times and modify the loaded
template. The 2nd page of the pdf does not get modified but the first page and
all pages after the 2nd do get modified.
My code
package org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel;
import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.COSVisitorException;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.edit.PDPageContentStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.File;
public class HRreports {
/**
* @param args
* @throws IOException
* @throws COSVisitorException
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
COSVisitorException
{
int numPages = 3;
String path = "Test string";
String label = "I am the 2nd sentence";
PDDocument document = null;
File file = new File("/Users/Desktop/PDFtemplate.pdf");
document = PDDocument.load(file);
PDPage page = (PDPage)
document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0);
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new
PDPageContentStream(document, page, true, false);
int n = 0;
while (n < numPages)
{
n++;
document.importPage(page);
draw(document, page, path, 85, 650);
draw(document, page, label, 85, 641);
}
document.save("/Users/Desktop/HRReports.pdf");
document.close();
}
public static void draw(PDDocument document, PDPage page, String text,
int indent, int offset) throws IOException
{
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document,
page, true, true);
PDFont font = PDType1Font.COURIER;
contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(0,0,0);
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont(font, 11);
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(indent, offset);
contentStream.drawString(text);
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();
}
}
I have also tried not using a loop and create a contentstream write the text,
close the stream. Then create a new stream import the page write the text,
close the stream. This worked until I added the String label to the 2nd
content stream I had created and then even it added that string to the first
page and all pages after the 2nd (the String path was being added to all pages
but the String label skipped the 2nd page)
I was wondering if anyone else has ran into this problem, am I doing something
wrong, or is there just a better way to create a multi-page pdf where I want
all pages to follow a template but I want to modify the templates.
Full discloser I am going to do this in RPG but was trying to figure this out
in Java since I didn't have to worry about prototypes and if it was failing
because I did the prototype wrong. Also the modification is a mailing label if
that matters.
Thank you in advance for any help.
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