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PDFBox Open PDF file into new browser tab

I am using the pdfbox library 2.0 version. I need to open PDF in new browser tab i.e. Print View.
As if we are migrating from iText to PDFBox below is the existing code with iText.
With below code, there is PDFAction class to achieve same. It is,
PdfAction action = new PdfAction(PdfAction.PRINTDIALOG);
and to apply print Javascript on doc,
copy.addJavaScript(action);
I need equivalent solution with PDFBox.
Document document = new Document();
try{
outputStream=response.getOutputStream();
// step 2
PdfCopy copy = new PdfCopy(document, outputStream);
// step 3
document.open();
// step 4
PdfReader reader;
int n;
//add print dialog in Pdf Action to open file for preview.
PdfAction action = new PdfAction(PdfAction.PRINTDIALOG);
// loop over the documents you want to concatenate
Iterator i=mergepdfFileList.iterator();
while(i.hasNext()){
File f =new File((String)i.next());
is=new FileInputStream(f);
reader=new PdfReader(is);
n = reader.getNumberOfPages();
for (int page = 0; page < n; ) {
copy.addPage(copy.getImportedPage(reader, ++page));
}
copy.freeReader(reader);
reader.close();
is.close();
}
copy.addJavaScript(action);
// step 5
document.close();
}catch(IOException io){
throw io;
}catch(DocumentException e){
throw e;
}catch(Exception e){
throw e;
}finally{
outputStream.close();
}
I also tried with below reference but could not find print() method of PDDocument type.
Reference Link
Please guide me with this.
This is how file looks when display in browser tab:

This code reproduces what your file has, a JavaScript action in the name tree in the JavaScript entry in the name dictionary in the document catalog. ("When the document is opened, all of the actions in this name tree shall be executed, defining JavaScript functions for use by other scripts in the document" - PDF specification) There's probably an easier way to do this, e.g. with an OpenAction.
PDActionJavaScript javascript = new PDActionJavaScript("this.print(true);\n");
PDDocumentCatalog documentCatalog = document.getDocumentCatalog();
PDDocumentNameDictionary names = new PDDocumentNameDictionary(documentCatalog, new COSDictionary());
PDJavascriptNameTreeNode javascriptNameTreeNode = new PDJavascriptNameTreeNode();
Map<String, PDActionJavaScript> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("0000000000000000", javascript);
javascriptNameTreeNode.setNames(map);
names.setJavascript(javascriptNameTreeNode);
document.getDocumentCatalog().setNames(names);

iText difference between PdfCopy and PdfACopy

I wrote a function to embed a file as attachment inside a PDF/A-3a document using iText 5.5.13 (using instructions from iText tutorials).
If I attach the file using the class PdfCopy, the result is a correct PDF file, but it does not claim to be PDF/A (maybe it matches all the requirements, but it doesn't say).
If I do the same using PdfACopy, I get an wrongly built document:
InvalidPdfException: Rebuild failed: trailer not found.; Original
message: PDF startxref not found.
Here is my code a little simplified. Commented is the line to use a PdfCopy instead.
public static File embedFile(File inputPdf) {
File outputPdf = new File("./test.pdf");
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(inputPdf.getAbsolutePath());
Document document = new com.itextpdf.text.Document();
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outputPdf.getAbsolutePath());
PdfACopy copy = new PdfACopy(document, os, PdfAConformanceLevel.PDF_A_3A); // Output doc doesn't work
// PdfCopy copy = new PdfCopy(document, os); // Output doc works but doesn't claim to be PDF/A
document.open();
copy.addDocument(reader);
// Include attachment (extactly as in the sample tutorial)
PdfDictionary parameters = new PdfDictionary();
parameters.put(PdfName.MODDATE, new PdfDate());
PdfFileSpecification fileSpec = PdfFileSpecification.fileEmbedded(
writer, "./src/main/resources/com/itextpdf/invoice.xml",
"invoice.xml", null, "application/xml", parameters, 0);
fileSpec.put(new PdfName("AFRelationship"), new PdfName("Data"));
writer.addFileAttachment("invoice.xml", fileSpec);
PdfArray array = new PdfArray();
array.add(fileSpec.getReference());
writer.getExtraCatalog().put(new PdfName("AF"), array);
os.flush();
reader.close();
document.close();
os.close();
copy.close();
return outputPdf;
}
The input file is already a PDF/A-3a document, so I think I don't need to redefine all the required things like embedded fonts, output intent...
Is there maybe a missing step that is mandatory when using PdfACopy that is not required with PdfCopy?
Would it help to try with iText 7?
Many thanks in advance!

As pointed by Bruno Lowagie in the comments, this is possible with iText 7. Here the function in case it helps someone:
public static File embedFile(File inputPdf, File embeddedFile, String embeddedFileName, String embeddedFileMimeType)
throws IOException {
File outputPdf = new File("./test.pdf");
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(inputPdf.getAbsolutePath());
PdfWriter writer = new PdfWriter(outputPdf.getAbsolutePath());
PdfADocument pdfDoc = new PdfADocument(reader, writer);
// Add attachment
PdfDictionary parameters = new PdfDictionary();
parameters.put(PdfName.ModDate, new PdfDate().getPdfObject());
PdfFileSpec fileSpec = PdfFileSpec.createEmbeddedFileSpec(pdfDoc, embeddedFile.getAbsolutePath(), embeddedFileName,
embeddedFileName, new PdfName(embeddedFileMimeType), parameters, PdfName.Data);
fileSpec.put(new PdfName("AFRelationship"), new PdfName("Data"));
pdfDoc.addFileAttachment(embeddedFileName, fileSpec);
PdfArray array = new PdfArray();
array.add(fileSpec.getPdfObject().getIndirectReference());
pdfDoc.getCatalog().put(new PdfName("AF"), array);
pdfDoc.close();
reader.close();
writer.close();
return outputPdf;
}

Open and Save to Same PDF File Name [duplicate]

I am required to replace a word in an existing PDF AcroField with another word. I am using PDFStamper of iTEXTSHARP to do the same and it is working fine. But, in doing so it is required to create a new PDF and i would like the change to be reflected in the existing PDF itself. If I am setting the destination filename same as the original filename then no change is being reflected.I am new to iTextSharp , is there anything I am doing wrong? Please help.. I am providing the piece of code I am using
private void ListFieldNames(string s)
{
try
{
string pdfTemplate = #"z:\TEMP\PDF\PassportApplicationForm_Main_English_V1.0.pdf";
string newFile = #"z:\TEMP\PDF\PassportApplicationForm_Main_English_V1.0.pdf";
PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader(pdfTemplate);
for (int page = 1; page <= pdfReader.NumberOfPages; page++)
{
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader((string)pdfTemplate);
using (PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileStream(newFile, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite)))
{
AcroFields form = stamper.AcroFields;
var fieldKeys = form.Fields.Keys;
foreach (string fieldKey in fieldKeys)
{
//Replace Address Form field with my custom data
if (fieldKey.Contains("Address"))
{
form.SetField(fieldKey, s);
}
}
stamper.FormFlattening = true;
stamper.Close();
}
}
}

As documented in my book iText in Action, you can't read a file and write to it simultaneously. Think of how Word works: you can't open a Word document and write directly to it. Word always creates a temporary file, writes the changes to it, then replaces the original file with it and then throws away the temporary file.
You can do that too:
read the original file with PdfReader,
create a temporary file for PdfStamper, and when you're done,
replace the original file with the temporary file.
Or:
read the original file into a byte[],
create PdfReader with this byte[], and
use the path to the original file for PdfStamper.
This second option is more dangerous, as you'll lose the original file if you do something that causes an exception in PdfStamper.

how to append data in docx file using docx4j

Please tell me how to append data in docx file using java and docx4j.
What I'm doing is, I am using a template in docx format in which some field are dilled by java at run time,
My problem is for every group of data it creates a new file and i just want to append the new file into 1 file. and this is not done using java streams
String outputfilepath = "e:\\Practice/DOC/output/generatedLatterOUTPUT.docx";
String outputfilepath1 = "e:\\Practice/DOC/output/generatedLatterOUTPUT1.docx";
WordprocessingMLPackage wordMLPackage;
public void templetsubtitution(String name, String age, String gender, Document document)
throws Exception {
// input file name
String inputfilepath = "e:\\Practice/DOC/profile.docx";
// out put file name
// id of Xml file
String itemId1 = "{A5D3A327-5613-4B97-98A9-FF42A2BA0F74}".toLowerCase();
String itemId2 = "{A5D3A327-5613-4B97-98A9-FF42A2BA0F74}".toLowerCase();
String itemId3 = "{A5D3A327-5613-4B97-98A9-FF42A2BA0F74}".toLowerCase();
// Load the Package
if (inputfilepath.endsWith(".xml")) {
JAXBContext jc = Context.jcXmlPackage;
Unmarshaller u = jc.createUnmarshaller();
u.setEventHandler(new org.docx4j.jaxb.JaxbValidationEventHandler());
org.docx4j.xmlPackage.Package wmlPackageEl = (org.docx4j.xmlPackage.Package) ((JAXBElement) u
.unmarshal(new javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource(
new FileInputStream(inputfilepath)))).getValue();
org.docx4j.convert.in.FlatOpcXmlImporter xmlPackage = new org.docx4j.convert.in.FlatOpcXmlImporter(
wmlPackageEl);
wordMLPackage = (WordprocessingMLPackage) xmlPackage.get();
} else {
wordMLPackage = WordprocessingMLPackage
.load(new File(inputfilepath));
}
CustomXmlDataStoragePart customXmlDataStoragePart = wordMLPackage
.getCustomXmlDataStorageParts().get(itemId1);
// Get the contents
CustomXmlDataStorage customXmlDataStorage = customXmlDataStoragePart
.getData();
// Change its contents
((CustomXmlDataStorageImpl) customXmlDataStorage).setNodeValueAtXPath(
"/ns0:orderForm[1]/ns0:record[1]/ns0:name[1]", name,
"xmlns:ns0='EasyForm'");
customXmlDataStoragePart = wordMLPackage.getCustomXmlDataStorageParts()
.get(itemId2);
// Get the contents
customXmlDataStorage = customXmlDataStoragePart.getData();
// Change its contents
((CustomXmlDataStorageImpl) customXmlDataStorage).setNodeValueAtXPath(
"/ns0:orderForm[1]/ns0:record[1]/ns0:age[1]", age,
"xmlns:ns0='EasyForm'");
customXmlDataStoragePart = wordMLPackage.getCustomXmlDataStorageParts()
.get(itemId3);
// Get the contents
customXmlDataStorage = customXmlDataStoragePart.getData();
// Change its contents
((CustomXmlDataStorageImpl) customXmlDataStorage).setNodeValueAtXPath(
"/ns0:orderForm[1]/ns0:record[1]/ns0:gender[1]", gender,
"xmlns:ns0='EasyForm'");
// Apply the bindings
BindingHandler.applyBindings(wordMLPackage.getMainDocumentPart());
File f = new File(outputfilepath);
wordMLPackage.save(f);
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f);
ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
try {
for (int readNum; (readNum = fis.read(buf)) != -1;) {
bos.write(buf, 0, readNum);
}
// System.out.println( buf.length);
} catch (IOException ex) {
}
byte[] bytes = bos.toByteArray();
FileOutputStream file = new FileOutputStream(outputfilepath1, true);
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(file);
out.write(bytes);
out.flush();
out.close();
System.out.println("..done");
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
utility u = new utility();
u.templetsubtitution("aditya",24,mohan);
}
thanks in advance

If I understand you correctly, you're essentially talking about merging documents. There are two very simple approaches that you can use, and their effectiveness really depends on the structure and onward use of your data:
PhilippeAuriach describes one approach in his answer, which entails
appending all components within a MaindocumentPart instance to
another. In terms of the final docx file, this means the content
that appears in document.xml -- it won't take into account headers
and footers ( for example), but that may be fine for you.
You can insert multiple documents into a single docx file by inserting them
as AltChunk elements (see the docx4j documentation). This will
bring everything from one Word file into another, headers and all.
The downside of this is that your final document won't be a proper
flowing Word file until you open it and save it in MS Word itself
(the imported components remain as standalone files within the docx
bundle). This will cause you issues if you want to generated
'merged' files and then do something with them like render PDFs --
the merged content will simply be ignored.
The more complete (and complex) approach is to perform a "deep merge". This updates and maintains all references held within a document. Imported content becomes part of the main "flow" of the document (i.e. it is not stored as separate references), so the end result is a properly-merged file which can be rendered to PDF or whatever.
The downside to this is you need a good knowledge of docx structure and the API, and you will be writing a fair amount of code (I would recommend buying a license to Plutext's MergeDocx instead).

I had to deal with similar things, and here is what I did (probably not the most efficient, but working) :
create a finalDoc loading the template, and emptying it (so you have the styles in this doc)
for each data row, create a new doc loading the template, then replace your fields with your values
use the function below to append the doc filled with the datas to the finalDoc :
public static void append(WordprocessingMLPackage docDest, WordprocessingMLPackage docSource) {
List<Object> objects = docSource.getMainDocumentPart().getContent();
for(Object o : objects){
docDest.getMainDocumentPart().getContent().add(o);
}
}
Hope this helps.

Open Microsoft Word in Java

I'm trying to open MS Word 2003 document in java, search for a specified String and replace it with a new String. I use APACHE POI to do that. My code is like the following one:
public void searchAndReplace(String inputFilename, String outputFilename,
HashMap<String, String> replacements) {
File outputFile = null;
File inputFile = null;
FileInputStream fileIStream = null;
FileOutputStream fileOStream = null;
BufferedInputStream bufIStream = null;
BufferedOutputStream bufOStream = null;
POIFSFileSystem fileSystem = null;
HWPFDocument document = null;
Range docRange = null;
Paragraph paragraph = null;
CharacterRun charRun = null;
Set<String> keySet = null;
Iterator<String> keySetIterator = null;
int numParagraphs = 0;
int numCharRuns = 0;
String text = null;
String key = null;
String value = null;
try {
// Create an instance of the POIFSFileSystem class and
// attach it to the Word document using an InputStream.
inputFile = new File(inputFilename);
fileIStream = new FileInputStream(inputFile);
bufIStream = new BufferedInputStream(fileIStream);
fileSystem = new POIFSFileSystem(bufIStream);
document = new HWPFDocument(fileSystem);
docRange = document.getRange();
numParagraphs = docRange.numParagraphs();
keySet = replacements.keySet();
for (int i = 0; i < numParagraphs; i++) {
paragraph = docRange.getParagraph(i);
text = paragraph.text();
numCharRuns = paragraph.numCharacterRuns();
for (int j = 0; j < numCharRuns; j++) {
charRun = paragraph.getCharacterRun(j);
text = charRun.text();
System.out.println("Character Run text: " + text);
keySetIterator = keySet.iterator();
while (keySetIterator.hasNext()) {
key = keySetIterator.next();
if (text.contains(key)) {
value = replacements.get(key);
charRun.replaceText(key, value);
docRange = document.getRange();
paragraph = docRange.getParagraph(i);
charRun = paragraph.getCharacterRun(j);
text = charRun.text();
}
}
}
}
bufIStream.close();
bufIStream = null;
outputFile = new File(outputFilename);
fileOStream = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
bufOStream = new BufferedOutputStream(fileOStream);
document.write(bufOStream);
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Caught an: " + ex.getClass().getName());
System.out.println("Message: " + ex.getMessage());
System.out.println("Stacktrace follows.............");
ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
}
}
I call this function with following arguments:
HashMap<String, String> replacements = new HashMap<String, String>();
replacements.put("AAA", "BBB");
searchAndReplace("C:/Test.doc", "C:/Test1.doc", replacements);
When the Test.doc file contains a simple line like this : "AAA EEE", it works successfully, but when i use a complicated file it will read the content successfully and generate the Test1.doc file but when I try to open it, it will give me the following error:
Word unable to read this document. It may be corrupt.
Try one or more of the following:
* Open and repair the file.
* Open the file with Text Recovery converter.
(C:\Test1.doc)
Please tell me what to do, because I'm a beginner in POI and I have not found a good tutorial for it.

First of all you should be closing your document.
Besides that, what I suggest doing is resaving your original Word document as a Word XML document, then changing the extension manually from .XML to .doc . Then look at the XML of the actual document you're working with and trace the content to make sure you're not accidentally editing hexadecimal values (AAA and EEE could be hex values in other fields).
Without seeing the actual Word document it's hard to say what's going on.
There is not much documentation about POI at all, especially for Word document unfortunately.

I don't know : is its OK to answer myself, but Just to share the knowledge, I'll answer myself.
After navigating the web, the final solution i found is :
The Library called docx4j is very good for dealing with MS docx file, although its documentation is not enough till now and its forum is still in a beginning steps, but overall it help me to do what i need..
Thanks 4 all who help me..

You could try OpenOffice API, but there arent many resources out there to tell you how to use it.

You can also try this one: http://www.dancrintea.ro/doc-to-pdf/

Looks like this could be the issue.