I'm afraid not. The Website provides an older Version of PDFBox only as it becomes more difficult to compile a .NET version using IKVM. Maybe you should try to compile your own version using a more recent version if PDFBox.
BR Andreas Lehmkühler On 27. Februar 2014 10:55:07 MEZ, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm using this: > > http://pdfbox.lehmi.de > >I suppose OverlayPDF is not included? > > >On 27/02/14 10:09, Maruan Sahyoun wrote: >> Hi, >> >> if you are using Overlay.java please use OverlayPDF.java instead. >Overlay.java will be removed in the next major release. >> >> To add some highlight rectangle handling it yourself you can use >> >> PDDocument document = PDDocument.loadNonSeq( ... ); >> PDPage page = (PDPage) >document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get(0); >> /* Set up the graphic state */ >> >> // Define a new extended graphic state >> PDExtendedGraphicsState extendedGraphicsState = new >PDExtendedGraphicsState(); >> // Set the transparency/opacity >> extendedGraphicsState.setNonStrokingAlphaConstant(0.5f); >> // Get the page resources. >> PDResources resources = page.findResources(); >> >> // Get the defined graphic states. >> Map<String, PDExtendedGraphicsState> graphicsStateDictionary = >resources.getGraphicsStates(); >> >> if (graphicsStateDictionary == null) { >> graphicsStateDictionary = new HashMap<String, >PDExtendedGraphicsState>(); >> } >> >> graphicsStateDictionary.put("TransparentState", >extendedGraphicsState); >> resources.setGraphicsStates(graphicsStateDictionary); >> >> /* End of setup */ >> >> // Now we will be able to call the state definition before >doing the drawing >> PDPageContentStream contentStream = new >PDPageContentStream(document, page,true,true); >> contentStream.appendRawCommands("/TransparentState gs\n"); >> contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(Color.yellow); >> >> // put in the coordinates for the rectangle found by the text >extraction >> contentStream.fillRect(100f,100f,100f,100f); >> contentStream.close(); >> >> document.save( ... ); >> >> null checks, error handling etc. is omitted so the code is clearer. >> >> For the annotations - how did you print the PDF? If you print it >using e.g. Adobe Reader printing the annotations is optional and has to >be activated in the printer dialog, otherwise they will be omitted. >> >> BR >> Maruan Sahyoun >> >> >> >> Am 26.02.2014 um 23:48 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]>: >> >>> That doesn't work, it turns out. Only the test PDFs were working. >Trying to overlay "real" PDFs result in an error that Cos Arrays are >not supported. >>> >>> So I then tried to use PDF annotations instead. This seemed to work >fine. However, when someone tried to print the PDF, annotated text was >not highlighted at all, even though it looks just fine on screen! >>> >>> So I'm out of ideas. It would appear that PDFBox is indeed incapable >of highlighting text? >>> >>> >>> On 17/02/14 17:18, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>>> I've come up with a good way to insert color-filled rectangles >through >>>> the use of Overlay (so that they are rendered behind the text >instead of >>>> the front of it.) >>>> >>>> On 17/02/14 13:52, Maruan Sahyoun wrote: >>>>> [...] >>>>> If you would like to make the highlight part of the PDF you could >>>>> create an annotation or draw a rectangle behind the text. >>>>> >>>>> Steps would be a. find the text b. get the coordinates of the text >c. >>>>> create an annotation or a rectangle around the coordinates >>>>> >>>>> You could also use the information in the highlight xml file to >get >>>>> the coordinates for the annotation/rectangle >>>>> >>>>> Am 17.02.2014 um 12:09 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras ><[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>>> It is not apparent how to save a PDF after I highlight some text >in >>>>>> it. For example: >>>>>> >>>>>> PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load("source.pdf"); PDFHighlighter hl >= >>>>>> new PDFHighlighter(); java.io.FileWriter xml = new >>>>>> java.io.FileWriter("tmp.xml"); hl.generateXMLHighlight(doc, >"450", >>>>>> xml); >>>>>> >>>>>> How do I now save source.pdf (or a copy of it, if overwriting is >>>>>> not possible) with the text highlighted? >>> >> >>
