/*
* Tiling pattern:
* Define a tiling pattern containing an image and use it to cover the page
* background with tiles.
*
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9.0.2
* Required data: image file
*/
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.images;
import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;
public class tiling_pattern {
public static void main(String argv[]) {
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
String searchpath = "../input";
String outfile = "tiling_pattern.pdf";
String title = "Tiling Pattern";
pdflib p = null;
int exitcode = 0;
String imagefile = "background_image.png";
int font, image, pattern;
int pagewidth = 595, pageheight = 842;
double imagewidth, imageheight, resx, resy;
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 background image */
image = p.load_image("auto", imagefile, "");
if (image == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* Retrieve the image dimensions */
imagewidth = p.info_image(image, "imagewidth", "");
imageheight = p.info_image(image, "imageheight", "");
/*
* The image may have a resolution above 72 dpi. If we used the
* returned dimensions (in points) for the pattern height and width
* and placed our image into the pattern, it wouldn't match the
* pattern size, and a white margin would be left. To make the
* pattern the same size as the image we calculate the image size
* based on its resolution.
*
* Retrieve the original image resolution:
*/
resx = p.info_image(image, "resx", "");
resy = p.info_image(image, "resy", "");
/* Calculate the image dimensions for 72 dpi */
if (resx > 0) {
imagewidth = imagewidth * 72 / resx;
imageheight = imageheight * 72 / resy;
}
/*
* Create a pattern using the retrieved image dimensions. The
* painttype parameter must be set to 1 since a colorized image is
* used (as opposed to an image mask).
*/
pattern = p.begin_pattern_ext(imagewidth, imageheight, "");
p.fit_image(image, 0, 0, "");
p.end_pattern();
p.close_image(image);
/* Start page */
p.begin_page_ext(pagewidth, pageheight, "");
/*
* Set a fill color and create and fill a rectangle with the
* dimensions of the page. Encapsulate the setcolor() call with
* save() and restore() to be able to proceed with the original
* colors.
*/
p.save();
p.setcolor("fill", "pattern", pattern, 0, 0, 0);
p.rect(0, 0, pagewidth, pageheight);
p.fill();
p.restore();
/* Output some page contents */
font = p.load_font("Helvetica-Bold", "unicode", "");
if (font == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
int fontsize = 14;
p.set_text_option("font=" + font + " fontsize=" + fontsize);
p.fit_textline(
"The page background consists of a small image pattern",
20, 700, "");
p.fit_textline(
"which will be output on the page repeatedly.",
20, 700 - fontsize, "");
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);
}
}
}