[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-1596) OverlayPDF logic should be moved into a library class

["James Green (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

James Green created PDFBOX-1596:
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             Summary: OverlayPDF logic should be moved into a library class
                 Key: PDFBOX-1596
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1596
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Utilities
    Affects Versions: 1.8.1
            Reporter: James Green
            Priority: Minor


We're finding that OverlayPDF fixes problems observed when using Overlay. However, with Overlay we can operate it as a library call but OverlayPDF can't be particularly given we work with PDDocuments.

I've just had someone copy the entire OverlayPDF class into one of our own and modify it to accept pre-loaded PDDocuments instead of filenames. It would be far more constructive to extract the core logic into a library class and have the CLI class drive it.

If we had a proper clone method it would be good to create a completely new PDDocument to serve as the new returned document instead of mutating the inputs too...


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