Hi Maruan, Thank you for the information. It seems to be a good approach. We will try to use it.
Regards, Valen -----Mensaje original----- De: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:[email protected]] Enviado el: jueves, 21 de abril de 2016 11:45 Para: [email protected] Asunto: Re: 3D object Hi, > Am 21.04.2016 um 11:20 schrieb Sanchez Pelaez, Valentin > <[email protected]>: > > Thank you Tilman, > > I know the creation of the 3d file is not part of PDFBox. > The problem I try to solve is, given a U3D file and a previous PDF file, I > would like to insert the U3D model in a predefined place in the PDF. > I know it is possible because the PDF standard support U3D models. It is just > for viewing the model (not editing). > > The question was if PDFbox library provides this functionality, insertion of > 3d models. > I have also looked for it in the API documentation and it seems it is > not include, but I preferred to ask, just in case… there is no high level API for that (PDModel) at the moment but the low level API (COSModel) can be used in combination with existing high level functionalities such as PDAnnotation, PDStream ... to insert that. The easiest would be to start with a small sample PDF where the content is embedded and replicate it's structure. 3D Objects have a fair bit of possible settings but I think you don't have to support all of them but only the ones needed for your application. BR Maruan > > Regards, > Valen > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:[email protected]] Enviado el: > miércoles, 20 de abril de 2016 18:05 > Para: [email protected] > Asunto: Re: 3D object > > Am 20.04.2016 um 11:41 schrieb Sanchez Pelaez, Valentin: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Is it possible with pdfbox to insert a 3d object (U3D or PRC) in a >> PDF file? >> >> Thank you in advance for your answers. >> > > I searched in the source code and couldn't find anything. > > It might be possible to add stuff on a very low level, but this would require > to have understanding not only of PDF but also of PDFBox. And even then, you > would still have to create the 3D artwork yourself, analog to PDFBox not > having paragraphs for texts, there wouldn't be any high level methods, e.g. > bouncing balls or whatever. > > Tilman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
