org.pdfbox
Class Overlay

java.lang.Object
  org.pdfbox.Overlay

public class Overlay
extends java.lang.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: 1.6 $

Author:

Mario Ivankovits (mario@ops.co.at), Ben Litchfield

Field Summary

static COSName	EXT_G_STATE COSName constant.
static COSName	PROC_SET COSName constant.
static COSName	XOBJECT COSName constant.

Constructor Summary

Overlay()

Method Summary

static void	main(java.lang.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

COSName constant.

PROC_SET

public static final COSName PROC_SET

COSName constant.

EXT_G_STATE

public static final COSName EXT_G_STATE

COSName constant.

Constructor Detail

Overlay

public Overlay()

Method Detail

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)
                 throws java.io.IOException,
                        COSVisitorException

This will overlay a document and write out the results.

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

Parameters:

args - The command line arguments.

Throws:

java.io.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 java.io.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:

java.io.IOException - If there is an error accessing data.