In a process of writing text to PDF, I'm using TextFragment for setting properties of various fields. Instead of setting for each field separately, how do make use of a loop?
My present code:
TextFragment a = new TextFragment("Hi!");
tf.setPosition(dropDown);
tf.getTextState().setFont(new FontRepository().findFont("Arial"));
tf.getTextState().setFontSize(10.0F);
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TextFragment n = new TextFragment("n");
tf.setPosition(dropDown);
tf.getTextState().setFont(new FontRepository().findFont("Arial"));
tf.getTextState().setFontSize(10.0F);
I need something like this:
some loop {
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TextFragment txtFrag = new TextFragment(A);
tf.setPosition(dropDown);
tf.getTextState().setFont(new FontRepository().findFont("Arial"));
tf.getTextState().setFontSize(10.0F);
} //This should set properties for all fields
The string in TextFragment("String")
is not same for all the fields. It's different for various form fields.
You may simply add text fragments in your PDF file and once you finish adding text, you may get or set different properties for all the text fragments in a PDF file by using the code below:
// Load document
Document document = new Document( dataDir + "input.pdf");
// Create TextAbsorber object to extract all textFragments
TextFragmentAbsorber textFragmentAbsorber = new TextFragmentAbsorber();
// Accept the absorber for first page of document
document.getPages().accept(textFragmentAbsorber);
// Get the extracted text fragments into collection
TextFragmentCollection textFragmentCollection = textFragmentAbsorber.getTextFragments();
// Loop through the Text fragments
for (TextFragment textFragment : (Iterable<TextFragment>) textFragmentCollection) {
// Iterate through text fragments
System.out.println("Text :- " + textFragment.getText());
textFragment.getTextState().setFont(new FontRepository().findFont("Arial"));
textFragment.getTextState().setFontSize(10.0F);
System.out.println("Position :- " + textFragment.getPosition());
System.out.println("XIndent :- " + textFragment.getPosition().getXIndent());
System.out.println("YIndent :- " + textFragment.getPosition().getYIndent());
System.out.println("Font - Name :- " + textFragment.getTextState().getFont().getFontName());
}
// Save generated document
document.save(dataDir + "input_17.12.pdf");
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