/* * PDF impose: * Import all pages from one more existing PDFs and place col x row pages * on each sheet of the output PDF (imposition). * * 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"; String outfile = "starter_pdfimpose.pdf"; String title = "PDF Impose"; pdflib p = null; int exitcode = 0; String pdffiles[] = { "PDFlib-datasheet.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=3, maxrow=4; // maxcol x maxrow pages will be placed on one sheet 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); /* --------------------------------------------------------------------- * 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); } } }