Setting the version of pdf with PDFMergerUtility

["Woude, Alexander van der" <al...@capgemini.com>]

Hello all,

I am facing a problem.

I retrieve documents from Oracle's UCM (content manager). I receive the doc=
uments  - all pdfs - from UCM as a stream.=20
A ByteArrayOutputStream to be precise.

My problems is that some docuemtns I retrieve are scanned, and stored as PD=
F1.2 format.
After I merge all the documents the generated PDF is 1.2. In that version a=
 fonttype is not available and cause that some docs in the concatenated pdf=
 is unreadable.
So I want to set the merged version to 1.4.

I tried to reuse the code from the PDFMergerUtility. mergeDocuments(), inco=
rporated it in my own code and alter it. See below.
Can someone suggest me what I do wrong or point me to a better way of doing=
 this?

Regards, Alexander

private void mergeDocuments(PDFMergerUtility mergeUtil) throws IOException,=
 COSVisitorException
    {
            =09
        PDDocument destination =3D null;
        InputStream sourceFile;
        PDDocument source;
       =20
        if (streamOfPDFFiles !=3D null && streamOfPDFFiles.size() > 0)
        {
         java.util.Vector<PDDocument> tobeclosed =3D new java.util.Vector<P=
DDocument>();
        =09
            try
            {
                Iterator<InputStream> sit =3D streamOfPDFFiles.iterator();
                sourceFile =3D sit.next();
                destination =3D PDDocument.load(sourceFile);
                destination.getDocument().setVersion(1.4f);
              =20
                while (sit.hasNext())
                {
                    sourceFile =3D sit.next();
                    source =3D PDDocument.load(sourceFile);
                    tobeclosed.add(source);
                    mergeUtil.appendDocument(destination, source);
                }
                destination.save(outputStream);
            }
            finally
            {
                if (destination !=3D null)
                {
                    destination.close();
                }
                 for(PDDocument doc : tobeclosed){
                         doc.close();
                 }=20
            }
        }
    }






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Re: Setting the version of pdf with PDFMergerUtility

[Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>]

Hi,

Am 21.12.2011 13:31, schrieb Woude, Alexander van der:
> Hello all,
>
> I am facing a problem.
>
> I retrieve documents from Oracle's UCM (content manager). I receive the doc=
> uments  - all pdfs - from UCM as a stream.=20
> A ByteArrayOutputStream to be precise.
>
> My problems is that some docuemtns I retrieve are scanned, and stored as PD=
> F1.2 format.
> After I merge all the documents the generated PDF is 1.2. In that version a=
>   fonttype is not available and cause that some docs in the concatenated pdf=
>   is unreadable.
> So I want to set the merged version to 1.4.
>
> I tried to reuse the code from the PDFMergerUtility. mergeDocuments(), inco=
> rporated it in my own code and alter it. See below.
> Can someone suggest me what I do wrong or point me to a better way of doing=
>   this?

Should be solved with PDFBOX-879 [1]

> Regards, Alexander
<SNIP>

BR
Andreas Lehmkühler

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-879