blocks/clone_blocks
Clone Blocks from another document. Use POCA to copy a modified Block.
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/*
* Clone all Blocks from an input document.
*
* Required software: PPS 9
* Required data: PDF document with Blocks
*/
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.blocks;
import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;
public class clone_blocks {
public static void main(String argv[]) {
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
String searchpath = "../input";
/* By default annotations are also imported. In some cases this
* requires the Noto fonts for creating annotation appearance streams.
* We therefore set the searchpath to also point to the font directory.
*/
String fontpath = "../resource/font";
String outfile = "clone_blocks.pdf";
String infile = "businesscard_blocks.pdf";
String title = "Clone PDFlib Blocks";
int exitcode = 0;
pdflib p = null;
try {
p = new pdflib();
p.set_option("searchpath={" + searchpath + "}");
p.set_option("searchpath={" + fontpath + "}");
/* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */
p.set_option("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);
/* Open a PDF containing Blocks */
int indoc = p.open_pdi_document(infile, "");
if (indoc == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* Loop over all pages of the input document */
int pagecount = (int) p.pcos_get_number(indoc, "length:pages");
for (int pageno = 1; pageno <= pagecount; pageno++)
{
int page = p.open_pdi_page(indoc, pageno, "");
if (page == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* Page size may be adjusted by fit_pdi_page() */
p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Copy all Blocks from the page */
if (p.process_pdi(indoc, 0,
"action=copyallblocks block={pagenumber=" + pageno + "}") == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* Import the page content itself */
p.fit_pdi_page(page, 0, 0, "adjustpage");
p.end_page_ext("");
}
p.end_document("");
}
catch (PDFlibException e) {
System.err.println("PDFlib exception occurred");
System.err.println("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname() +
": " + e.get_errmsg());
exitcode = 1;
}
catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println(e);
exitcode = 1;
}
finally {
if (p != null) {
p.delete();
}
System.exit(exitcode);
}
}
}