Create document with structure information for reflow and accessibility.
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* Tagged PDF starter:
* Create document with structure information for reflow and accessibility
*
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7.0.3
* The basic code also works with PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7.0.0-7.0.2, but these
* versions require the "lang" option in begin_document() or end_document().
* Required data: none
*/
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.interchange;
import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;
public class starter_tagged
{
public static void main (String argv[])
{
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
String searchpath = "../input";
String outfile = "starter_tagged.pdf";
String title = "Starter Tagged PDF";
pdflib p = null;
/* Required minimum PDFlib version */
final double requiredversion = 703;
final String requiredvstr = "7.0.3";
int id, id_artifact, font;
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");
/* Check whether the required minimum PDFlib version is available */
double major = p.get_value("major", 0);
double minor = p.get_value("minor", 0);
double revision = p.get_value("revision", 0);
if (major*100 + minor*10 + revision < requiredversion)
throw new Exception("Error: PDFlib " + requiredvstr +
" or above is required");
/* Start the document in Tagged PDF mode */
if (p.begin_document(outfile, "tagged=true") == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
p.set_info("Title", title + " $Revision: 1.8 $");
/* Automatically create spaces between chunks of text */
p.set_parameter("autospace", "true");
/* open the first structure element as a child of the document
* structure root (=0)
*/
id = p.begin_item("P", "Title = {Simple Paragraph}");
p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
font = p.load_font("Helvetica", "winansi", "");
if (font == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
p.setfont(font, 24.0);
p.show_xy("Hello, Tagged PDF!", 50, 700);
p.continue_text("This PDF has a very simple");
p.continue_text("document structure.");
p.end_item(id);
/* The page number is created as an artifact; it will be
* ignored when reflowing the page in Acrobat.
*/
id_artifact = p.begin_item("Artifact", "");
p.show_xy("Page 1", 250, 100);
p.end_item(id_artifact);
p.end_page_ext("");
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();
}
}
}
}