Merging existing PDF documents into one after a cover page drawn with PDFjet, and splitting a document into one PDF for each of its pages and into its pages in reverse order.
Example_49.pdf — the PDF this example creates.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics;
using PDFjet.NET;
/**
* Example_49.cs
*
* Merges and splits existing PDF documents. merge draws a cover page and
* merges three documents after it, into Example_49.pdf: the pages of each
* follow in their order and keep their content, resources, annotations and
* links, and what belongs to a whole document, such as its bookmarks, form
* fields and tagging, is left out. split writes one PDF for each page of a
* document, Example_49_1.pdf to Example_49_5.pdf, and all of its pages in
* reverse order to Example_49_reversed.pdf; a link to a page that is not in
* the same PDF leads nowhere.
*/
public class Example_49 {
public Example_49() {
Merge();
Split();
}
private void Merge() {
PDF pdf = new PDF(new BufferedStream(
new FileStream("Example_49.pdf", FileMode.Create)));
String[] fileNames = {
"data/testPDFs/scanned-linearized.pdf",
"data/testPDFs/rc65-16e.pdf",
"data/testPDFs/PDFjetLogo.pdf"
};
List<List<PDFobj>> documents = new List<List<PDFobj>>();
foreach (String fileName in fileNames) {
using (BufferedStream stream = new BufferedStream(
new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))) {
documents.Add(pdf.Read(stream));
}
}
Font f1 = new Font(pdf, IBMPlexSans.Bold);
f1.SetSize(24f);
Font f2 = new Font(pdf, IBMPlexSans.Regular);
f2.SetSize(12f);
Page page = new Page(pdf, Letter.PORTRAIT);
new TextLine(f1, "Merged documents").SetLocation(50f, 80f).DrawOn(page);
float y = 130f;
for (int i = 0; i < fileNames.Length; i++) {
int pages = pdf.GetPageObjects(documents[i]).Count;
String text = fileNames[i] + ", " + pages + (pages == 1 ? " page" : " pages");
new TextLine(f2, text).SetLocation(50f, y).DrawOn(page);
y += 20f;
}
foreach (List<PDFobj> objects in documents) {
pdf.Merge(objects);
}
pdf.Complete();
}
private void Split() {
List<PDFobj> objects;
using (BufferedStream stream = new BufferedStream(
new FileStream("data/testPDFs/scanned-linearized.pdf", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))) {
objects = new PDF().Read(stream);
}
int count = new PDF().GetPageObjects(objects).Count;
for (int i = 1; i <= count; i++) {
PDF part = new PDF(new BufferedStream(
new FileStream("Example_49_" + i + ".pdf", FileMode.Create)));
part.Merge(objects, i);
part.Complete();
}
int[] reversed = new int[count];
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
reversed[i] = count - i;
}
PDF pdf = new PDF(new BufferedStream(
new FileStream("Example_49_reversed.pdf", FileMode.Create)));
pdf.Merge(objects, reversed);
pdf.Complete();
}
public static void Main(String[] args) {
Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
long time0 = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;
new Example_49();
long time1 = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;
Console.WriteLine($"Example_49 => {time1 - time0,4} ms");
}
} // End of Example_49.cs
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