org.apache.pdfbox
Class Overlay

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.pdfbox.Overlay

public class Overlay
extends Object

Overlay on document with another one.
e.g. Overlay an invoice with your company layout

How it (should) work:
If the document has 10 pages, and the layout 2 the following is the result:

 Document: 1234567890
 Layout  : 1212121212
 

Version:

$Revision: 1.7 $

Author:

Mario Ivankovits ([email protected]), Ben Litchfield

Field Summary

static COSName	EXT_G_STATE Deprecated. use the COSName.EXT_G_STATE constant instead
static COSName	PROC_SET Deprecated. use the COSName.PROC_SET constant instead
static COSName	XOBJECT Deprecated. use the COSName.XOBJECT constant instead

Constructor Summary

Overlay()

Method Summary

static void	main(String[] args) This will overlay a document and write out the results.
PDDocument	overlay(PDDocument overlay, PDDocument destination) This will overlay two documents onto each other.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

XOBJECT

public static final COSName XOBJECT

Deprecated. use the COSName.XOBJECT constant instead

PROC_SET

public static final COSName PROC_SET

Deprecated. use the COSName.PROC_SET constant instead

EXT_G_STATE

public static final COSName EXT_G_STATE

Deprecated. use the COSName.EXT_G_STATE constant instead

Constructor Detail

Overlay

public Overlay()

Method Detail

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws IOException,
                        COSVisitorException

This will overlay a document and write out the results.

usage: java org.apache.pdfbox.Overlay <overlay.pdf> <document.pdf> <result.pdf>

Parameters:

args - The command line arguments.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error reading/writing the document.

COSVisitorException - If there is an error writing the document.

overlay

public PDDocument overlay(PDDocument overlay,
                          PDDocument destination)
                   throws IOException

This will overlay two documents onto each other. The overlay document is repeatedly overlayed onto the destination document for every page in the destination.

Parameters:

overlay - The document to copy onto the destination

destination - The file that the overlay should be placed on.

Returns:

The destination pdf, same as argument passed in.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error accessing data.