B4J Library PDF Creator and viewer

Hello,

Here are 3 classes :
- PdfCreator : create PDF
- PDFViewer : render PDF
- clsFormPDF : form to preview PDF (Page navigation, Zoom, Print, Save)

PdfCreator and PDFViewer wraps PDFBox
You have to download pdfbox-app-2.0.20.jar and copy it in the additional folder
You have to download icu4j-67_1.jar and copy it in the additional folder for right to left and connected arabic characters

    #AdditionalJar: pdfbox-app-2.0.20.jar
    #AdditionalJar: icu4j-67_1.jar

For right to left and connected arabic characters, you need to uses the "bidi" method to buld your string

    s=pdfcreator.bidi("صباحا")

The zip contains a small project which show how to create PDF and preview them

• The fist is very simple, just few lines of text
• The second is a long list with image, table, page footer, text color, background color....
• The third use differents standard fonts and load a font from a file and display arabic characters

To create a PDF :

1. Create an instance of pdfCreator and initialize it
2. Create page
3. Create content
4. Write on the content (text, image, rect)
5. Close content
6. Add page to PDF
7. repeat 2 to 6
8. write PDF to stream or file

spsp

 

[behnam_tr]

thanks

how set unicode to "utf-8" ???
how use other fonts like "tahoma" ??

 

[spsp]

thanks

how set unicode to "utf-8" ???
how use other fonts like "tahoma" ??

I have add a third example in post #1 to show differents fonts.
I have no answer for the encoding and to load a font

 

[micro]

Thanks for sharing your work

The form is always empty but if I send to print, the print displays everything

 

[spsp]

Thanks for sharing your work

The form is always empty but if I send to print, the print displays everything

View attachment 95717

Hello,

did you copy the pdfbox jar file ?

You have to download pdfbox-app-2.0.20.jar and copy it in the additional folder

spsp

 

[behnam_tr]

i cant print arabic characters
defualt fonts dont support arabic characters
but i find this from pdfbox site

Hello World Using a TrueType Font
This small sample shows how to create a new document and print the text “Hello World” using a TrueType font.

// Create a document and add a page to it
PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
PDPage page = new PDPage();
document.addPage( page );

// Create a new font object by loading a TrueType font into the document
PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(document, "Arial.ttf");

// Start a new content stream which will "hold" the to be created content
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);

// Define a text content stream using the selected font, moving the cursor and drawing the text "Hello World"
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont( font, 12 );
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 100, 700 );
contentStream.drawString( "Hello World" );
contentStream.endText();

// Make sure that the content stream is closed:
contentStream.close();

// Save the results and ensure that the document is properly closed:
document.save( "Hello World.pdf");
document.close();

 

[spsp]

i cant print arabic characters
defualt fonts dont support arabic characters
but i find this from pdfbox site

Hello World Using a TrueType Font
This small sample shows how to create a new document and print the text “Hello World” using a TrueType font.

// Create a document and add a page to it
PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
PDPage page = new PDPage();
document.addPage( page );

// Create a new font object by loading a TrueType font into the document
PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(document, "Arial.ttf");

// Start a new content stream which will "hold" the to be created content
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);

// Define a text content stream using the selected font, moving the cursor and drawing the text "Hello World"
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont( font, 12 );
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 100, 700 );
contentStream.drawString( "Hello World" );
contentStream.endText();

// Make sure that the content stream is closed:
contentStream.close();

// Save the results and ensure that the document is properly closed:
document.save( "Hello World.pdf");
document.close();

Hello,

Post #1 is updated with loadFont method. In the third example, the tahoma font is loaded from file and used on page 2 to display arabic characters

spsp

 

[micro]

Hello,

did you copy the pdfbox jar file ?

You have to download pdfbox-app-2.0.20.jar and copy it in the additional folder

spsp

Of course
but the form is always empty.

 

[behnam_tr]

thanks man
its great
but still one problem is not solved

characters are disconnected and must Right_to_left

ok : "صباح"
not ok : "ح ا ب ص"

same problem in stackoverflow.com

Writing Arabic with PDFBOX with correct characters presentation form without being separated

I'm trying to generate a PDF that contains Arabic text using PDFBox Apache but the text is generated as separated characters because Apache parses given Arabic string to a sequence of general 'offi...

stackoverflow.com

Write arabic characters with PDFBOX

Update 1 I'm trying to write some Arabic characters in a pdf document using pdfbox. As a result I get some strange characters. You can find below the code snippet I used for my test. Notice tha...

stackoverflow.com

How To Display Arabic Text in PDFBox

I want to create report in Arabic using PDFBox I have saw different solution on stackoverflow but cant be get solution for my problem yet. the arabic word came as an character in reverse order how ...

stackoverflow.com

 

[spsp]

Of course
but the form is always empty.

I use B4J 8.31, java jdk 11.0.1

Have some information in the log ?

 

[micro]

I use B4J 8.31, java jdk 11.0.1

Have some information in the log ?

I had imagined that maybe it was a different version of java
My java version is jdk 8.0212
in the log no information and no errors

 

[micro]

The same problem with jdk 11.0.1 ?

 

[spsp]

The same problem with jdk 11.0.1 ?

Could you download the project again in post #1 and try again. I have changed sub name with underscore for callsub in realease obfuscated mode.

spsp

 

[micro]

Could you download the project again in post #1 and try again. I have changed sub name with underscore for callsub in realease obfuscated mode.

spsp

downloaded
but nothing changes, same problem

 

[micro]

it's a pc problem
on other pc it works well also if the version of java installed is the same

 

[spsp]

Hello,

Sorry for the late answer.

I've update the post #1

Take a look at 'Example 3', page 2.

You need to download icu4j-67_1.jar and copy it in your additionnal library folder

in the main module, you need to add

    #AdditionalJar: icu4j-67_1.jar

when you want to draw text, you need to call "bidi" method from pdfBoxcreator

    s=pdfcreator.bidi("صباحا")

Tell me if it's OK

SPSP

thanks man
its great
but still one problem is not solved

characters are disconnected and must Right_to_left

ok : "صباح"
not ok : "ح ا ب ص"

same problem in stackoverflow.com

Writing Arabic with PDFBOX with correct characters presentation form without being separated

I'm trying to generate a PDF that contains Arabic text using PDFBox Apache but the text is generated as separated characters because Apache parses given Arabic string to a sequence of general 'offi...

stackoverflow.com

Write arabic characters with PDFBOX

Update 1 I'm trying to write some Arabic characters in a pdf document using pdfbox. As a result I get some strange characters. You can find below the code snippet I used for my test. Notice tha...

stackoverflow.com

How To Display Arabic Text in PDFBox

I want to create report in Arabic using PDFBox I have saw different solution on stackoverflow but cant be get solution for my problem yet. the arabic word came as an character in reverse order how ...

stackoverflow.com

 

[moore_it]

Hi spsp very good work.

I need to display the text in an delimited field and i need to set multiline if necessary (long text).

It's possible ?

Thanks

 

[behnam_tr]

hi spss
problem with Arabic characters not solved completely

check attached
some characters like
"ی"
"گ"
"پ"
"ژ"
"چ"
"ک"

currect words are :
"گرگینه"
"پژمان"
"پنج"
"هشتادوپنج"
and ........

 

[MarcTG]

Wow this looks great. I have 2 questions:
1- Can you create a pdf from a B4J layouts the same way it is done with JavaFX8
2- Can you then load internal pdfs and combine them with pages created in 1.

Thanks!

 

[spsp]

Wow this looks great. I have 2 questions:
1- Can you create a pdf from a B4J layouts the same way it is done with JavaFX8
2- Can you then load internal pdfs and combine them with pages created in 1.

Thanks!

This class wraps only few methods from pdfbox, so :
1- No
2 -No

If you want to complete this class, you are welcome

spsp