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Create a link in Existing PDF Using iText 5.5.13.2

How to add an external link in PDF and redirect to the webpage.
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example image describe below
On click on Goolge,user should redirect to webpage https://www.google.com
here is my code
private void createPDFiText() {
int margin = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen._5sdp);
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, margin, margin, margin, margin);
try {
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, getOutputStream());
document.open();
for (int i = 12; i <= 17; i++) {
Phrase phrase = new Phrase("Open ");
Phrase phrase1 = new Phrase(" on Click On it.");
Font anchorFont = new Font(Font.FontFamily.UNDEFINED, 25);
anchorFont.setColor(BaseColor.BLUE);
anchorFont.setStyle(Font.FontStyle.UNDERLINE.getValue());
Anchor anchor = new Anchor("Google", anchorFont);
anchor.setReference("www.google.com");
phrase.add(anchor);
phrase.add(phrase1);
document.add(phrase);
}
document.close();
} catch (DocumentException | IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

I am referring to this answer. Have a look. Modifying existing pdf file using iText 5.5.13.2 is complicated. But the referred solution is more easier.
iText 7 has handier way to modify existing pdf.
There are several other ways. Like PdfStamper etc.
From referred answer, add following code to make an anchor.
Phrase phrase = new Phrase("Open ");
Phrase phrase1 = new Phrase(" on Click On it.");
Font anchorFont = new Font(Font.FontFamily.UNDEFINED, 11);
anchorFont.setColor(BaseColor.BLUE);
anchorFont.setStyle(Font.FontStyle.UNDERLINE.getValue());
Anchor anchor = new Anchor("Google", anchorFont);
anchor.setReference("www.google.com");
phrase.add(anchor);
phrase.add(phrase1);
document.add(phrase);
Change the font and colors based on your needs.
Full code:
try {
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("test.pdf"); //src pdf path (the pdf I need to modify)
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("test2.pdf")); // destination pdf path
document.open();
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
PdfImportedPage page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 1);
document.newPage();
document.setPageSize(reader.getPageSize(1));
cb.addTemplate(page, 0, 0);
Phrase phrase = new Phrase("Open ");
Phrase phrase1 = new Phrase(" on Click On it.");
Font anchorFont = new Font(Font.FontFamily.UNDEFINED, 11);
anchorFont.setColor(BaseColor.BLUE);
anchorFont.setStyle(Font.FontStyle.UNDERLINE.getValue());
Anchor anchor = new Anchor("Google", anchorFont);
anchor.setReference("https://www.google.com");
phrase.add(anchor);
phrase.add(phrase1);
document.add(phrase);
document.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (DocumentException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

Write Heart Symbol in pdf using itext java

Trying to write heart symbol in pdf through java code .
This is my input to pdf : ❤️❤️❤️
But pdf generated is empty without anything written.
Using itext to write to pdf.
The Font used is tradegothic_lt_boldcondtwenty.ttf
OutputStream file = new FileOutputStream(fileName);
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A6);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, file);
document.open();
PdfLayer nested = new PdfLayer("Layer 1", writer);
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
cb.beginLayer(nested);
ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb);
Font font = getFont();
Phrase para1 = new Phrase("❤️❤️❤️",font);
ct.setSimpleColumn(para1,38,0,260,138,15, Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
ct.go();
cb.endLayer();
document.close();
file.close();
private Font getFont() {
final String methodName = "generatePDF";
LOGGER.entering(CLASSNAME, methodName);
Font font = null;
try {
String filename = tradegothic_lt_boldcondtwenty.ttf;
FontFactory.register(filename, filename);
font = FontFactory.getFont(filename, BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.EMBEDDED,11.8f);
} catch(Exception exception) {
LOGGER.logp(Level.SEVERE, CLASSNAME, methodName, "Exception Occurred while fetching the Trade Gothic font." + exception);
font = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA_BOLD,11.8f);
}
return font;
}
Phrase para1 has the heart correctly. But not able to see in pdf

Convert image to pdf with iText and Java

I succesfully converted image files (gif, png, jpg, bmp) to pdf's using iText 1.3.
I can't change the version since we can't just change versions of a jar obviously in a professional environment.
The problem that I have is that the size of the image in the pdf is larger than the image itself. I am not talking about the file size but about the size of the image when the zoom is set to 100% on both the original image file and the pdf.
The pdf shows the image about a 20% to 30% bigger than the original image.
What am I doing wrong?
public void convertOtherImages2pdf(byte[] in, OutputStream out, String title, String author) throws IOException {
Image image = Image.getInstance(in);
Rectangle imageSize = new Rectangle(image.width() + 1f, image.height() + 1f);
image.scaleAbsolute(image.width(), image.height());
com.lowagie.text.Document document = new com.lowagie.text.Document(imageSize, 0, 0, 0, 0);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, out);
document.open();
document.add(image);
document.close();
writer.close();
}

Make MultipleImagesToPdf Class
public void imagesToPdf(String destination, String pdfName, String imagFileSource) throws IOException, DocumentException {
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 20.0f, 20.0f, 20.0f, 150.0f);
String desPath = destination;
File destinationDirectory = new File(desPath);
if (!destinationDirectory.exists()){
destinationDirectory.mkdir();
System.out.println("DESTINATION FOLDER CREATED -> " + destinationDirectory.getAbsolutePath());
}else if(destinationDirectory.exists()){
System.out.println("DESTINATION FOLDER ALREADY CREATED!!!");
}else{
System.out.println("DESTINATION FOLDER NOT CREATED!!!");
}
File file = new File(destinationDirectory, pdfName + ".pdf");
FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(file);
PdfWriter pdfWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, fileOutputStream);
document.open();
System.out.println("CONVERTER START.....");
String[] splitImagFiles = imagFileSource.split(",");
for (String singleImage : splitImagFiles) {
Image image = Image.getInstance(singleImage);
document.setPageSize(image);
document.newPage();
image.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
document.add(image);
}
document.close();
System.out.println("CONVERTER STOPTED.....");
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
MultipleImagesToPdf converter = new MultipleImagesToPdf();
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Enter your destination folder where save PDF \n");
// Destination = D:/Destination/;
String destination = sc.nextLine();
System.out.print("Enter your PDF File Name \n");
// Name = test;
String name = sc.nextLine();
System.out.print("Enter your selected image files name with source folder \n");
String sourcePath = sc.nextLine();
// Source = D:/Source/a.jpg,D:/Source/b.jpg;
if (sourcePath != null || sourcePath != "") {
converter.imagesToPdf(destination, name, sourcePath);
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
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Here i use itextpdf-5.4.0 Library
Happy Coding :)

You need to scale the image by the dpi.
float scale = 72 / dpi;
I don't know if such an ancient iText has that image information, more recent iText versions have it.

How to resize a PdfPTable to fit the page?

I am generating a document, like in the following code, except ofcourse the contents of the table, which are varying. What I need to do is make sure that this table never exceeds one page in size, regardless of the amount of content in the cells. Is there a way to do it ?
import com.itextpdf.text.Phrase;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import java.awt.Desktop;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
public void createTemplate() throws DocumentException, FileNotFoundException, IOException{
String TARGET = System.getProperty("user.home")+"\temp.pdf";
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(TARGET));
document.open();
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(7);
for (int i = 0; i < 105; i++) {
Phrase p = new Phrase("some text");
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.addElement(p);
table.addCell(cell);
}
table.setTotalWidth(PageSize.A4.getWidth()-10);
table.setLockedWidth(true);
PdfContentByte canvas = writer.getDirectContent();
PdfTemplate template = canvas.createTemplate(table.getTotalWidth(),table.getTotalHeight());
table.writeSelectedRows(0, -1, 0, PageSize.A4.getHeight(), template);
Image img = Image.getInstance(template);
img.scaleToFit(PageSize.A4.getWidth(), PageSize.A4.getHeight());
img.setAbsolutePosition(0, PageSize.A4.getHeight());
document.add(img);
document.close();
Desktop desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();
File file = new File(TARGET);
desktop.open(file); }
Edit: #Bruno Lowagie. The hint with the template wrapped in an image sounds just right to me, and I changed the code according, but all I get now is an empty PDF. Am I doing something wrong, or is this the wrong approach alltogether?

If you want a table to fit a page, you should create the table before even thinking about page size and ask the table for its height as is done in the TableHeight example. Note that the getTotalHeight() method returns 0 unless you define the width of the table. This can be done like this:
table.setTotalWidth(width);
table.setLockedWidth(true);
Now you can create a Document with size Rectangle(0, 0, width + margin * 2, getTotalHeight() + margin * 2) and the table should fit the document exactly when you add it with the writeSelectedRows() method.
If you don't want a custom page size, then you need to create a PdfTemplate with the size of the table and add the table to this template object. Then wrap the template object in an Image and use scaleToFit() to size the table down.
public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException, FileNotFoundException, IOException {
String TARGET = "temp.pdf";
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(TARGET));
document.open();
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(7);
for (int i = 0; i < 700; i++) {
Phrase p = new Phrase("some text");
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.addElement(p);
table.addCell(cell);
}
table.setTotalWidth(PageSize.A4.getWidth());
table.setLockedWidth(true);
PdfContentByte canvas = writer.getDirectContent();
PdfTemplate template = canvas.createTemplate(table.getTotalWidth(), table.getTotalHeight());
table.writeSelectedRows(0, -1, 0, table.getTotalHeight(), template);
Image img = Image.getInstance(template);
img.scaleToFit(PageSize.A4.getWidth(), PageSize.A4.getHeight());
img.setAbsolutePosition(0, (PageSize.A4.getHeight() - table.getTotalHeight()) / 2);
document.add(img);
document.close();
}

Inserting greater than or equal symbol in to an iText PDF, ie >=

Does anyone know an easy way to include the greater than or equal symbol in an iText PDF document without resorting to custom fonts?

You need to add the unicode for this character. Also make sure that the char is included in the font you use.
document.add( new Paragraph("\u2265"));

Use the below code for the same. It's work for me.
//symbol for greater or equal then
public void process() throws DocumentException, IOException {
String dest = "/home/ashok/ashok/tmp/hello.pdf";
BaseFont bfont = BaseFont.createFont(
"/home/ashok/ashok/fonts/Cardo-Regular.ttf",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,
BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font font = new Font(bfont, 12);
try {
Document document=new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new
FileOutputStream("/home/ashok/ashok/tmp/hello.pdf"));
document.open();
Chunk chunk = new Chunk("\u2265");
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("Mathematical Operators are ",font);
p.add(chunk);
document.add(p);
p = new Paragraph(" ",font);
chunk = new Chunk("\u2264");
p.add(chunk);
document.add(p);
document.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}