general/starter_basic
Create simple text, vector graphics and image output.
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/*
* Basic starter:
* Create some simple text, vector graphics and image output
*
* required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 10
* required data: image data
*/
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 image;
int exitcode = 0;
try {
p = new pdflib();
p.set_option("searchpath={" + searchpath + "}");
/* 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);
/* 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(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Use NotoSerif-Regular font and unicode encoding for placing the text
* and demonstrate various options how to pass the unicode text to PDFlib
*/
optlist = "fontname={NotoSerif-Regular} fontsize=24 ";
/* Plain ASCII text */
p.fit_textline("en: Hello!", 50, 700, optlist);
/* Unicode code points */
p.fit_textline("gr: \u0393\u03B5\u03B9\u03AC!", 50, 650, optlist);
p.fit_textline("ru: \u041F\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0442!", 50, 600, optlist);
/* PDFlib's character references */
p.fit_textline("es: ¡Hola!", 50, 550, optlist + " charref=true");
p.fit_image(image, 0.0, 0.0, "scale=0.25");
p.end_page_ext("");
/* Page 2 */
p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Demonstrate different ways of setting the fill color */
/* Red rectangle */
p.set_graphics_option("fillcolor=red");
p.rect(200, 200, 250, 150);
p.fill();
/* Blue circle */
p.set_graphics_option("fillcolor={rgb 0 0 1}");
p.arc(400, 600, 100, 0, 360);
p.fill();
/* Thick gray line */
p.set_graphics_option("fillcolor={gray 0.5}");
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(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* 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.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);
}
}
}