On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Am 07.11.2014 um 18:34 schrieb Tilman Hausherr: > >> |Hi, >> >> try using contentStream.setTextRotation() to rotate (you'll need to do a >> translation too, because it rotates around an axis, that is why it has 3 >> parameters) >> > The above method helps. Thanks andreas. > >> for images,||use an AffineTransform as a parameter to drawXObject. >> | >> |https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23867451/image-rotation-with-pdfbox >> > And this too helps. Thanks a lot. > >> ||if you want to rotate everything, then better use|concatenate2CTM, use >> use an >> AffineTransform as a parameter to drawXObject. >> >> Makes me wonder if we should create an example. >> > How about this one :-) [1] > > | >> Tilman >> | >> > > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > > [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/examples/src/ > main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/CreateLandscapePDF.java?view= > markup This rotates the entire pdf. Not what I want. I found that in first google search. > > >> >> Am 07.11.2014 um 13:48 schrieb Kernel freak: >> >>> Hello friends, >>> >>> I am using PDFBox to create PDF's. Thanks to some members in the mailing >>> list, especially : Maruan Sahyoun, I am nicely acquainted with the >>> platform, and now know how to achieve basic tasks. >>> >>> While creating the PDF, I am looking for the page size to be A4(already >>> set >>> by PAGE_SIZE.A4), the page rotation in potrait mode, which is by default. >>> >>> Problem : I would like to enter data in landscape mode. So basically, the >>> text should start from left bottom end of the page which is in potrait >>> mode >>> and 90 degree tilted. >>> >>> This is my first step of creating the document, as I have found functions >>> for creating tables, inserting images and all. Kindly let me know. Find >>> the >>> code below(pretty basic) >>> >>> PDF creation : >>> >>> PDDocument document = new PDDocument(); >>> >>> PDPage blankpage = new PDPage(PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A4); >>> >>> blankpage.setRotation(270); >>> document.addPage(blankpage); >>> >>> PDFont font = PDType1Font.COURIER_BOLD_OBLIQUE; >>> >>> try { >>> PDPageContentStream contentStream = new >>> PDPageContentStream(document,blankpage); >>> contentStream.beginText(); >>> contentStream.setFont(font,15); >>> contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100,700); >>> Notes note = getNoteById(7600); >>> String abc = note.getNotetext(); >>> contentStream.drawString(abc); >>> contentStream.endText(); >>> contentStream.close(); >>> } catch (IOException e) { >>> e.printStackTrace(); >>> } >>> >>> try { >>> document.save("blankpage.pdf"); >>> } catch (IOException e) { >>> e.printStackTrace(); >>> } catch (COSVisitorException e) { >>> e.printStackTrace(); >>> } >>> try { >>> document.close(); >>> } catch (IOException e) { >>> e.printStackTrace(); >>> } >>> >>> } >>> >>> >> >> >
