B4J Question Best PDF lib for my task

[MarcRB]

Hello,

Is here a good example for creating a PDF in B4J with background, text, table and images?

Just like an invoice, containing text, (product)table, (product)images.
I see a lot of PDF libs, But what is the best solution for 2021?
PDFBox (without Acroform), jsPDF, PDFWriter, PDFjet, DynaPDF?

I think of two options:
Create a new pdffile, add pages, add content containing text, tables and images and import another PDF or fullpage image as backgroud (companylogo, header, footer and watermark)

or

Open a pre created, 'blank' pdf with company design (already containing companylogo, header, footer and watermark)
and edit that file by adding text, tables and images.

Can someone point me to an example?

Best regards,
Marc

 

[jahswant]

The answer is Yes. You need PDFJET.

jPDFjet

jPDFjet is a PDF document authoring library for B4J jPDFjet wraps the PDFjet for Java library from pdfjet.com. Here are some of it's features: Drawing support for: Points Lines Boxes Circles Bezier Curves Polygons Stars Complex paths and shapes Text Unicode support Text kerning when using...

www.b4x.com

 

[MarcRB]

The answer is Yes. You need PDFJET.

jPDFjet

jPDFjet is a PDF document authoring library for B4J jPDFjet wraps the PDFjet for Java library from pdfjet.com. Here are some of it's features: Drawing support for: Points Lines Boxes Circles Bezier Curves Polygons Stars Complex paths and shapes Text Unicode support Text kerning when using...

www.b4x.com

I placed the jar in libraries folder and tested that PDFjet demo.
It doesn't work. Could it be outdated and no longer compatible?

 

[jahswant]

What’s the stack ?

 

[MarcRB]

I just used the pdfjet.jar file and the example, compiled and choose 'basic example' in the combobox.
I also tried different (j)pdfjet.jar files that I found on the net, but in all cases this in the result.
I know there are features that will only work in licenseced version.
I use jdk-11.0.1

Waiting for debugger to connect...

Program started.

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.pdfjet.TextLine.setPosition(FF)V
    at uk.co.martinpearman.b4j.pdfjet.TextLineWrapper.SetPosition(TextLineWrapper.java:106)
    at uk.co.martinpearman.b4j.pdfjetexample.main._createpdfbasicexample(main.java:272)
    at uk.co.martinpearman.b4j.pdfjetexample.main._createbutton_action(main.java:196)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.runMethod(Shell.java:632)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.raiseEventImpl(Shell.java:234)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.raiseEvent(Shell.java:167)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent2(BA.java:108)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.ShellBA.raiseEvent2(ShellBA.java:98)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA$1.run(BA.java:233)
    at javafx.graphics/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$10(PlatformImpl.java:428)
    at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javafx.graphics/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$11(PlatformImpl.java:427)
    at javafx.graphics/com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:96)
    at javafx.graphics/com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
    at javafx.graphics/com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.lambda$runLoop$3(WinApplication.java:174)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.pdfjet.TextLine.setPosition(FF)V
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent2(BA.java:137)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.ShellBA.raiseEvent2(ShellBA.java:98)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA$1.run(BA.java:233)
    at javafx.graphics/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$10(PlatformImpl.java:428)
    at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javafx.graphics/com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$11(PlatformImpl.java:427)
    at javafx.graphics/com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:96)
    at javafx.graphics/com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
    at javafx.graphics/com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.lambda$runLoop$3(WinApplication.java:174)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.pdfjet.TextLine.setPosition(FF)V
    at uk.co.martinpearman.b4j.pdfjet.TextLineWrapper.SetPosition(TextLineWrapper.java:106)
    at uk.co.martinpearman.b4j.pdfjetexample.main._createpdfbasicexample(main.java:272)
    at uk.co.martinpearman.b4j.pdfjetexample.main._createbutton_action(main.java:196)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.runMethod(Shell.java:632)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.raiseEventImpl(Shell.java:234)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.shell.Shell.raiseEvent(Shell.java:167)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.BA.raiseEvent2(BA.java:108)

    ... 9 more

 

[jahswant]

You can download my Open Source Edition PDFjet.jar library from: http://b4j.martinpearman.co.uk/jpdfjet/Open-Source-PDFjet.jar.zip.

(The library file available at http://b4j.martinpearman.co.uk/jpdfjet/Open-Source-PDFjet.jar.zip is the same as the library file available at http://b4a.martinpearman.co.uk/pdfjet/Open-Source-PDFjet.jar.zip)

 

[MarcRB]

This is the right version of the jar file, now i can run the PDFjet example.
This was so helpfull. Thank you.

(only the last link worked)