We use PDFBOX to append PDF files, but I've never tried to merge two pages together into one page.
Does your sample compile? Does it give runtime errors? Does it give incorrect output?
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From: Tom Deskevich [mailto:TDeskevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 2:52 PM
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Subject: Has anyone used PDFBOX to Merge two PDF pages into one?
I have a small PDF created with an annotation (a quarter of an inch), using PDFBOX. I want to take page one of an existing PDF and place the small PDF on the top, to give the appearance that the small annotation PDF is part of the existing PDF. I need to do this because there are times that there is a stamp in the upper right corner of the existing PDF and the annotation must be in upper right corner.
I cannot create a cover page with just the annotation, I am under state regulations that prohibits this. Too bad, because I knew how to do that.
I am new to both PDFBOX and JAVA. Please include as much detail as possible.
Soliciting help from stack overflow, I created this code below, which just puts the small annotation page as a new page at the end of the PDF.
Parameter 0 is the small pdf with the annotation, Parameter 1 is the existing pdf that I want to overlay with the annotation.
I also tried to extract the text from doc1 (code not shown) to try to determine if a stamp exists in the upper right corner, but the existing PDF is created from a TIFF image so it did not give me any text back.
TIA.
// Small annotated PDF DOC
File file = new File(args[0]);
PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(file);
// Existing PDF to place annotation page on DOC1
File file1 = new File(args[1]);
PDDocument doc1 = PDDocument.load(file1);
// Get first page from small annotated PDF and do addpage
// to existing PDF.
PDPage page = doc.getPage(0);
doc1.addPage(page);
doc1.save(args[1]);
System.out.println("Documents overlayed");
doc1.close();
doc.close();
}
}
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