How can I create a pdf using tables and page breaks?
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I'm trying to generate pdf using itext libs and I want to prevent page break. I want all my content in single page pdf only. How to achieve this?
I have a requirement to read a pdf file having tabular format data only like in excel file. I need to extract the cell value of given pdf file.
Is it be anyhow possible using itext API. If you have something to share then please share it or any other solutions?
The PDF format is just a canvas where text and graphics are placed without any structure information. As such there aren't any iText-objects in a PDF file. In each page there will probably be a number of Strings, but you can't reconstruct a phrase or a paragraph using these strings. There are probably a number of lines drawn, but you can't retrieve a Table-object based on these lines.
In short: parsing the content of a PDF-file is NOT POSSIBLE with iText.
You can try this! This lets you read PDF pages.
I recently ran into this problem. I wasn't able to make it work with itext.
An alternate solution I found was to open a PDF document in Adobe and export it to xml. At least with my PDF's it preserved the table information and then I was able to programmatically work with the XML to generate tabular files like excel etc.
The other issue I ran into was that Adobe only lets you export one file at a time and I had lots of files. Luckily Adobe also has a merge function. I ended up merging all the files together and then exporting them as one big XML file and working with that file to generate what I needed.
I am putting a single line of info to the end of first page of a PDF document by using PdfStamper class. Now I need to update that info periodically. How can I modify the text I stamped previously, is there a way for it?
Thanks.
See this post from Bruno Lowagie (the creator of iText) about PDF not being a word processor. In that post he talks about using forms instead to accomplish what you are looking for which is one route you can go down.
The second route, which I'd recommend, is just having two PDFs. Have your base PDF that you open, write to and save to your output PDF. When you need to update the PDF, delete the output PDF, re-open the base PDF, write your new text and save it to the output PDF again. This accomplishes your goals without having to edit anything.
Is it possible to add text to end of a PDF document created by a software other that itextsharp by using itextsharp? I need to add signatures to hundreds of PDF documents so I am looking for a way to do this automatically.
Thanks.
Yes you can! Provided you have access rights to modify the PDFs. If they are password protected and you have the password you can use itextsharp to open them with the password to be able to edit them.
You can then use the itextsharp PdfStamper class in combination with the PdfContentByte class to add content to any position on the PDF.
I have a PDF file (softcopy) which was created using iText. Now my company decided to use JasperReports for new release. I need to use that PDF file (softcopy) and need to design JasperReports template and need to populate data.
Do we have any plugin in JasperReports that can convert from PDF to JasperReports JRXML or what do I need to do? Any suggestions?
A PDF is a description of how to render a document on a page. Things
like "draw a vertical line here", "write 'foo bar baz' here in
Courier". It does not contain any information about the format or
organisation of the stuff it is rendering. You won't be able to tell
that you're looking at a table, or a list of bullet points, or a
paragraph, or anything like that.
The PDF format does contain information on a page-by-page basis.
Therefore, page breaks are the one piece of format/organisation
information that you can find.
If you want anything more than a raw stream of completely unformatted,
disorganised text, one per page, you are out of luck. It's virtually
impossible.
from javaranch
You can use http://xmlprinter.com/ and then use a xslt to transform the resulted xml to the desired jrxml.
I'm working in it. If I finish it, i will post the result on github or any other public and open place.
Good Luck