pdf_import/starter_pdfimpose
Import all pages from one or more existing PDFs, and place c x r pages on each sheet of the output PDF (imposition).
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/*
* PDF impose:
* Import all pages from one more existing PDFs and place col x row pages
* on each sheet of the output PDF (imposition). If there are annotations
* on an imported page these are also imported and scaled or rotated as
* required.
*
* Required software: PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9
* Required data: PDF documents
*/
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.pdf_import;
import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;
public class starter_pdfimpose
{
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 = "starter_pdfimpose.pdf";
String title = "PDF Impose";
pdflib p = null;
int exitcode = 0;
String pdffiles[] =
{
"markup_annotations_input.pdf",
"PLOP-datasheet.pdf",
"pCOS-datasheet.pdf"
};
int i, col = 0, row = 0;
String optlist;
double scale = 1; // scaling factor of a page
double rowheight; // row height for the page to be placed
double colwidth; // column width for the page to be placed
double sheetwidth = 595; // width of the sheet
double sheetheight = 842; // height of the sheet
int maxcol=2, maxrow=2; // maxcol x maxrow pages will be placed on one sheet
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);
/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Define the sheet width and height, the number of rows and columns
* and calculate the scaling factor and cell dimensions for the
* multi-page imposition.
* ---------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
if (maxrow > maxcol)
scale = 1.0 / maxrow;
else
scale = 1.0 / maxcol;
rowheight = sheetheight * scale;
colwidth = sheetwidth * scale;
boolean pageopen = false; // is a page open that must be closed?
/* Loop over all input documents */
for (i=0; i < pdffiles.length; i++)
{
int indoc, maxpage, pageno, page;
/* Open the input PDF */
indoc = p.open_pdi_document(pdffiles[i], "");
if (indoc == -1){
System.err.println("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
continue;
}
maxpage = (int) p.pcos_get_number(indoc, "length:pages");
/* Loop over all pages of the input document */
for (pageno = 1; pageno <= maxpage; pageno++)
{
page = p.open_pdi_page(indoc, pageno, "");
if (page == -1) {
System.err.println("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
continue;
}
/* Start a new page */
if (!pageopen) {
p.begin_page_ext(sheetwidth, sheetheight, "");
pageopen = true;
}
/* The save/restore pair is required to get an independent
* clipping area for each mini page. Note that clipping
* is not required for the imported pages, but affects
* the rectangle around each page. Without clipping we
* would have to move the rectangle a bit inside the
* imported page to avoid drawing outside its area.
*/
p.save();
// Clipping path for the rectangle
p.rect(col * colwidth, sheetheight - (row + 1) * rowheight,
colwidth, rowheight);
p.clip();
optlist = "boxsize={" + colwidth + " " + rowheight + "} fitmethod=meet";
// Fit the imported page in the box
p.fit_pdi_page(page, col * colwidth,
sheetheight - (row + 1) * rowheight, optlist);
p.close_pdi_page(page);
/* Draw a frame around the mini page */
p.set_graphics_option("linewidth=" + scale);
p.rect(col * colwidth, sheetheight - (row + 1) * rowheight,
colwidth, rowheight);
p.stroke();
p.restore();
col++;
// Start a new row if the current row is full
if (col == maxcol) {
col = 0;
row++;
}
// Close the page if it is full
if (row == maxrow) {
row = 0;
p.end_page_ext("");
pageopen = false;
}
}
p.close_pdi_document(indoc);
}
if (pageopen) {
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);
}
}
}