/* * Reverse page order: * Create pages in reverse page order * * Create page no. 5 first, then page no. 4, etc. * * Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9 * Required data: PDF document */ package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.pagination; import com.pdflib.pdflib; import com.pdflib.PDFlibException; public class reverse_page_order { public static void main (String argv[]) { /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */ String searchpath = "../input"; String outfile = "reverse_page_order.pdf"; String title = "Reverse Page Order"; pdflib p = null; int lastpage = 5, pageno, font, step = 1; 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); font = p.load_font("Helvetica-Bold", "unicode", ""); if (font == -1) throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg()); /* Loop over all subsequent pages in reverse order */ for (pageno = lastpage, step = 1; pageno > 0; pageno--, step++) { if (pageno == lastpage) /* Create the first page */ p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height"); else /* Insert subsequent pages before what is (currently) the * first page */ p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height pagenumber=1"); /* Place a text line indicating the page number */ p.setfont(font, 24); p.fit_textline("Page " + pageno + " created in step " + step, 100, 500, ""); 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); } } }