I got it to work with the provided examples. Thank you very much for your help.
Lucy Vorpahl -----Original Message----- From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 3:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to draw duplicate data using PDFBox I was afraid that you would ask that, because I've never used it for creating, only had to do with it when rendering :-( You could get the SuperimposePage.java example in the source download (which uses Layerutility), or this posting by "mkl": https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stackoverflow.com_questions_26256546_how-2Dto-2Dinsert-2Dan-2Dpdpage-2Dwithin-2Danother-2Dpdpage-2Dwith-2Dpdfbox&d=AwIC-g&c=RI9dKKMRNVHr9NFa7OQiQw&r=46g1Q9l2ygNJoVl15Feuc2oj-eK5kwz0sL2OtXB9UQA&m=K7M80HRQwt_5i-kStkwiYcqmy_8o4MNUeVIoMQDOf_8&s=iXuDVzPxIti5QIG0pn2XSebFdyPwj_0ZSx02_fgxq4c&e= While none of the two will directly do what you need, they should tell you the general direction to go, i.e. that you'd understand what a content stream is, and how to fill it, and what an XForm is. I suggest you start with something very small and non confidential and post the code if it doesn't work properly. Tilman Am 06.01.2015 um 22:02 schrieb Vorpahl,Lucinda: > I'm sorry, I'm very new to PDFBox and am not familiar with Xform. > Do you know of a good reference or examples that I can use to help > familiarize myself with it? > > Thank you, > > Lucy Vorpahl > Software Developer > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 2:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to draw duplicate data using PDFBox > > You could create an XForm and invoke that one again and again. > > Tilman > > Am 06.01.2015 um 21:31 schrieb Vorpahl,Lucinda: >> I am creating a pdf document using pdfbox. >> >> I have no problem creating the document with one rectangle filled in >> with data but now I want to copy the data and write it multiple times >> on the same page. >> >> Example: >> >> Hello How Are You Hello How Are You Hello How Are You >> >> I know I can write out the line of text over and over specifying the >> textTranslation but there is a lot of text so I wanted to see if there >> were other options like somehow cloning the original rectangle. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Lucy Vorpahl >> >> Software Developer >> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>
