Hi, looks like it is a bug. Could you open an issue at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX and attach some sample code to reproduce as well as your PDF's for testing.
Kind regards Maruan Sahyoun Am 10.01.2013 um 09:28 schrieb SolidAndShade <[email protected]>: > Hi everyone, > > I've been trying in vain to paste multiple small PDFs into a big one as > form XObjects. I want to paste a bunch of little PDFs into a large one. > This image illustrates what I'm trying to do: > > https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/59/pdfsampleimagepasterigh.png/ > > The Test 1-3 boxes would be the little PDFs I want to insert. When I try > to do this, I get this result: > > https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/15/pdfsampleimagepastewron.png/ > > The last form to be pastes is just duplicated three times. It seems > that instead of adding multiple XObjects, I am just adding multiple > references to a single XObject, and whenever I try to add another > XObject it just overwrites the XObject that the form instances were > referring to. It seems I can't insert multiple forms, just multiple > references to a single one. > > I am using a variation of this code to paste the forms onto the PDF, > using the LayerUtility class: > > LayerUtility lu = new LayerUtility( doc ); > PDXObjectForm form = lu.importPageAsForm( doc2, 0 ); > PDPage page = (PDPage) doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages().get( 0 ); > lu.wrapInSaveRestore( page ); > AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform(); > lu.appendFormAsLayer( page, form, at, "new_layer_name" ); > > It works great for pasting a single PDF onto another, but not for > multiples. > > Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Any help is appreciated. Thanks. > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service >
