Changing page sizes of existing PDFs
This example was written in answer to the question Click How to extend the page size of a PDF to add a watermark?
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JAVA
JAVA
/**
* This example was written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following StackOverflow question:
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29775893/watermark-in-a-pdf-with-itext
*/
package sandbox.stamper;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.GrayColor;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfArray;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfDictionary;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfName;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfNumber;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfStamper;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import sandbox.WrapToTest;
@WrapToTest
public class AddExtraMargin {
public static final String SRC = "resources/pdfs/primes.pdf";
public static final String DEST = "results/stamper/primes_extra_margin.pdf";
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
File file = new File(DEST);
file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
new AddExtraMargin().manipulatePdf(SRC, DEST);
}
public void manipulatePdf(String src, String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src);
int n = reader.getNumberOfPages();
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(dest));
// properties
PdfContentByte over;
PdfDictionary pageDict;
PdfArray mediabox;
float llx, lly, ury;
// loop over every page
for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
pageDict = reader.getPageN(i);
mediabox = pageDict.getAsArray(PdfName.MEDIABOX);
llx = mediabox.getAsNumber(0).floatValue();
lly = mediabox.getAsNumber(1).floatValue();
ury = mediabox.getAsNumber(3).floatValue();
mediabox.set(0, new PdfNumber(llx - 36));
over = stamper.getOverContent(i);
over.saveState();
over.setColorFill(new GrayColor(0.5f));
over.rectangle(llx - 36, lly, 36, ury - llx);
over.fill();
over.restoreState();
}
stamper.close();
reader.close();
}
}