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Posted to users@pdfbox.apache.org by Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de> on 2012/03/06 19:35:02 UTC
Re: Text shows up correctly in PDF but not when printing or in print
preview.
Hi,
Am 27.02.2012 19:17, schrieb Eric Johnson:
> Hi,
> I'm using pdfbox-app-1.6.0, and trying to print a PDF in landscape.
> My test string shows up fine (roughly in center of doc) in a PDF
> viewer but when I do print preview it is in very lower left bottom
> edge of the preview page and when I print, no text is printed at all.
>
> Here is my code:
>
> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>
> PDDocument doc = null;
>
> try {
> doc = new PDDocument();
> PDPage page = new PDPage();
> page.setMediaBox(PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_LETTER);
> page.setRotation(90);
> doc.addPage(page);
> PDRectangle pageSize = page.findMediaBox();
> float pageWidth = pageSize.getWidth();
> PDPageContentStream cs = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page, false,
> false);
>
> // translation of pageWidth to use lower left corner as 0,0
> cs.concatenate2CTM(0, 1, -1, 0, pageWidth, 0);
>
> PDFont boldFont = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;
> PDFont regFont = PDType1Font.HELVETICA;
> float fontSize = 8;
>
> cs.setFont(boldFont, fontSize);
>
> cs.beginText();
> cs.moveTo(306, 390);
> cs.drawString("Test 1:");
> cs.endText();
>
> cs.close();
> doc.save("TestPdf.pdf");
> } finally {
> if (doc != null) {
> doc.close();
> }
> }
>
Try to us PDPageContentStream#moveTextPositionByAmount instead of
PDPageContentStream#move
> Thanks for the help.
> Eric
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
Re: Text shows up correctly in PDF but not when printing or in print preview.
Posted by Eric Johnson <er...@gmail.com>.
That fixed it! Thank you Andreas.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 27.02.2012 19:17, schrieb Eric Johnson:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm using pdfbox-app-1.6.0, and trying to print a PDF in landscape.
>> My test string shows up fine (roughly in center of doc) in a PDF
>> viewer but when I do print preview it is in very lower left bottom
>> edge of the preview page and when I print, no text is printed at all.
>>
>> Here is my code:
>>
>> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>>
>> PDDocument doc = null;
>>
>> try {
>> doc = new PDDocument();
>> PDPage page = new PDPage();
>> page.setMediaBox(PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_LETTER);
>> page.setRotation(90);
>> doc.addPage(page);
>> PDRectangle pageSize = page.findMediaBox();
>> float pageWidth = pageSize.getWidth();
>> PDPageContentStream cs = new
>> PDPageContentStream(doc, page, false,
>> false);
>>
>> // translation of pageWidth to use lower left
>> corner as 0,0
>> cs.concatenate2CTM(0, 1, -1, 0, pageWidth, 0);
>>
>> PDFont boldFont = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;
>> PDFont regFont = PDType1Font.HELVETICA;
>> float fontSize = 8;
>>
>> cs.setFont(boldFont, fontSize);
>>
>> cs.beginText();
>> cs.moveTo(306, 390);
>> cs.drawString("Test 1:");
>> cs.endText();
>>
>> cs.close();
>> doc.save("TestPdf.pdf");
>> } finally {
>> if (doc != null) {
>> doc.close();
>> }
>> }
>>
> Try to us PDPageContentStream#moveTextPositionByAmount instead of
> PDPageContentStream#move
>
>
>> Thanks for the help.
>> Eric
>
>
>
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler