Monday, February 27, 2006

Concatenate Two PDFs in a JSP using iText

This is an adaptation of the stand alone java file on the iText website to JSP:


<%@page import="java.io.FileOutputStream,
java.util.ArrayList,
java.util.List,

com.lowagie.text.Document,
com.lowagie.text.pdf.PRAcroForm,
com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfCopy,
com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfImportedPage,
com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader,
com.lowagie.text.pdf.SimpleBookmark" %><%
try {
int pageOffset = 0;
ArrayList master = new ArrayList();
int f = 0;
String outFile = "/tmp/ouputPDF.pdf";
Document document = null;
PdfCopy writer = null;
while (f < 2) {
// we create a reader for a certain document
PdfReader reader = null;
if( f == 0) reader = new PdfReader(application.getRealPath("/Page1.pdf"));
else
reader = new PdfReader(application.getRealPath("/Page2.pdf"));
reader.consolidateNamedDestinations();
// we retrieve the total number of pages
int n = reader.getNumberOfPages();
List bookmarks = SimpleBookmark.getBookmark(reader);
if (bookmarks != null) {
if (pageOffset != 0)
SimpleBookmark.shiftPageNumbers(bookmarks, pageOffset, null);
master.addAll(bookmarks);
}
pageOffset += n;

if (f == 0) {
// step 1: creation of a document-object
document = new Document(reader.getPageSizeWithRotation(1));
// step 2: we create a writer that listens to the document
writer = new PdfCopy(document, new FileOutputStream(outFile));
// step 3: we open the document
document.open();
}
// step 4: we add content
PdfImportedPage ppage;
for (int i = 0; i < n; ) {
++i;
ppage = writer.getImportedPage(reader, i);
writer.addPage(ppage);
}
PRAcroForm form = reader.getAcroForm();
if (form != null)
writer.copyAcroForm(reader);
f++;
}
if (master.size() > 0)
writer.setOutlines(master);
// step 5: we close the document
document.close();
}
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
%>

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