workign with exisitng pdfs

[Suguna Devarla]

Hi,

I am adding a text to the existing pdf and writing to bytearray output stream but when I open the "HelloWorld2.pdf", text is not showing up? But if i create a new pdf for e.g. HelloWorldNew.pdf then the text is shwoing up.

Can any one help me to find out the error reg bytearray outputstream.?

PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader(
"C:\\POC\\HelloWorld2.pdf");
ByteArrayOutputStream bao = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PdfStamper pdfStamper = new PdfStamper(pdfReader, bao);

Calendar currentDate = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
String signatureDate = f.format(currentDate.getTime());

ct.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
ct.setSimpleColumn(50, 500, 500, 50);
ct.addText(new Chunk("Current Date : " + signatureDate));
ct.go();

Thanks,
Suguna

[Suguna Devarla]

I am trying this Itext libraries.Any reply will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance

[Tim Moores]

How are you saving the ByteArrayOutputStream?

[Suguna Devarla]

I am not saving boa object , I am thinking PdfStamper pdfStamper = new PdfStamper(pdfReader,bao) will automatically takes care of that.
Can you tell me wts the code I need to add in order to get the text in same Pdf instaed of careting new one.

Thanks

[Suguna Devarla]

I have added below code but still no luck..Can any one explain how to add content to exisitng pdf with out creating a new different physical file
I wanted to see the new content in same "HelloWorld2.pdf"

PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader(
"C:\\POC\\HelloWorld2.pdf");
ByteArrayOutputStream bao = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PdfStamper pdfStamper = new PdfStamper(pdfReader, bao);

Calendar currentDate = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat f = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy");
String signatureDate = f.format(currentDate.getTime());

ct.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
ct.setSimpleColumn(50, 500, 500, 50);
ct.addText(new Chunk("Current Date : " + signatureDate));
ct.go();

PdfCopy copy = new PdfCopy(doc, bao);
copy.addPage(copy.getImportedPage(pdfReader, 1));

[Tim Moores]

I am not saving boa object , I am thinking PdfStamper pdfStamper = new PdfStamper(pdfReader,bao) will automatically takes care of that.

No. That just saves the altered PDF in the BAOS. You still need to write the contents of the BAOS to a file.

[Suguna Devarla]

how do i do that.
I did it using servlet using response object.
ServletOutputStream out = response. getOutputStream();
baos.writeTo(out);

[Suguna Devarla]

I tried writing byte array output stream to a file after saving it throws me ane error.Below is the line of code added to the program.

bao.writeTo(new FileOutputStream("C:\\Suguna\\POC\\HelloWorld2.pdf"));

Here is the exception.. any reply would be a big help.
java.io.IOException: PDF header signature not found.
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PRTokeniser.checkPdfHeader(PRTokeniser.java:204)