general/starter_basic

 * Basic starter:

 * Create some simple text, vector graphics and image output

 *

 * Required software: PDFlib Lite/PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7

 * Required data: image file

 */

package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.general;

import com.pdflib.pdflib;

import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;

public class starter_basic

{

    public static void main (String argv[])

    {

    /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */

    String searchpath = "../input";

    String outfile = "starter_basic.pdf";

    String title = "Starter Basic";

    pdflib p = null;

    String imagefile = "nesrin.jpg";

    String optlist;

    int font, image;

    try {

        p = new pdflib();

        p.set_parameter("SearchPath", searchpath);

        /* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */

        p.set_parameter("errorpolicy", "return");

        if (p.begin_document(outfile, "") == -1)

        throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

        p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");

        p.set_info("Title", title + " $Revision: 1.9 $");

        /* We load the image before the first page, and use it

         * on all pages

         */

        image = p.load_image("auto", imagefile, "");

        if (image == -1)

        throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

        /* Page 1 */

        p.begin_page_ext(595, 842, "");

        /* For PDFlib Lite: change "unicode" to "winansi" */

        font = p.load_font("Helvetica-Bold", "unicode", "");

        if (font == -1)

        throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

        p.setfont(font, 24);

        p.set_text_pos(50, 700);

        p.show("Hello world!");

        p.fit_image(image,  0.0,  0.0, "scale=0.25");

        p.end_page_ext("");

        /* Page 2 */

        p.begin_page_ext(595, 842, "");

        /* red rectangle */

        p.setcolor("fill", "rgb", 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);

        p.rect(200, 200, 250, 150);

        p.fill();

        /* blue circle */

        p.setcolor("fill", "rgb", 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0);

        p.arc(400, 600, 100, 0, 360);

        p.fill();

        /* thick gray line */

        p.setcolor("stroke", "gray", 0.5, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);

        p.setlinewidth(10);

        p.moveto(100, 500);

        p.lineto(300, 700);

        p.stroke();

        /* Using the same image handle means the data will be copied

         * to the PDF only once, which saves space.

         */

        p.fit_image(image, 150.0, 25.0, "scale=0.25");

        p.end_page_ext("");

        /* Page 3 */

        p.begin_page_ext(595, 842, "");

        /* Fit the image to a box of predefined size (without distortion) */

        optlist =

        "boxsize={400 400} position={center} fitmethod=meet";

        p.fit_image(image, 100, 200, optlist);

        p.end_page_ext("");

        p.close_image(image);

        p.end_document("");

        } catch (PDFlibException e) {

            System.err.print("PDFlib exception occurred:\n");

            System.err.print("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname() +

                ": " + e.get_errmsg() + "\n");

        } catch (Exception e) {

            System.err.println(e.getMessage());

        } finally {

            if (p != null) {

                p.delete();

            }

        }

    }

}