/* * {{{ header & license * Copyright (c) 2008 Patrick Wright * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. * }}} */ import org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.OutputStream; /** * This sample shows how to create a single PDF document from multiple input documents. */ public class PDFRenderToMultiplePages { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { OutputStream os = null; try { // create some simple, fake documents; nothing special about these, anything that Flying Saucer // can otherwise render final String[] inputs = new String[]{ newPageHtml(1, "red"), newPageHtml(2, "blue"), newPageHtml(3, "green") }; final File outputFile = File.createTempFile("FlyingSacuer.PDFRenderToMultiplePages", ".pdf"); os = new FileOutputStream(outputFile); ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer(); // we need to create the target PDF // we'll create one page per input string, but we call layout for the first renderer.setDocumentFromString(inputs[0]); renderer.layout(); renderer.createPDF(os, false); // each page after the first we add using layout() followed by writeNextDocument() for (int i = 1; i < inputs.length; i++) { renderer.setDocumentFromString(inputs[i]); renderer.layout(); renderer.writeNextDocument(); } // complete the PDF renderer.finishPDF(); System.out.println("Sample file with " + inputs.length + " documents rendered as PDF to " + outputFile); } finally { if (os != null) { try { os.close(); } catch (IOException e) { /*ignore*/ } } } } private static String newPageHtml(int pageNo, String color) { return "" + " Page" + pageNo + ""; } }