org.af.commons.io.pdf
Class PDFHelper

java.lang.Object
  org.af.commons.io.pdf.PDFHelper

public class PDFHelper
extends Object

This class contains static methods for creating PDF files with iText.

Field Summary

static com.lowagie.text.Font	font
static com.lowagie.text.Font	fontb
static com.lowagie.text.Font	fonth

Constructor Summary

PDFHelper()

Method Summary

static com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable	createTable(List<List<Object>> xtable, List<String> header) Creates a PdfPTable.
static void	enable4Borders(com.lowagie.text.Cell cell) Sets the four borders of a cell to 0.5f.
static com.lowagie.text.Image	getImage(com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter writer, File file) Returns a com.lowagie.text.Image from a image or PDF file.
static com.lowagie.text.Image	getPdfImage(com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter writer, File file) Returns a com.lowagie.text.Image from the first page of a PDF file.
static boolean	isPDF(File file) Determines whether a given file is a PDF file by extension.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

font

public static com.lowagie.text.Font font

fontb

public static com.lowagie.text.Font fontb

fonth

public static com.lowagie.text.Font fonth

Constructor Detail

PDFHelper

public PDFHelper()

Method Detail

getImage

public static com.lowagie.text.Image getImage(com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter writer,
                                              File file)
                                       throws IOException,
                                              com.lowagie.text.BadElementException

Returns a com.lowagie.text.Image from a image or PDF file. In the second case the first page of the PDF file is returned as image.

Parameters:

writer - PdfWriter

file - file to read

Returns:

Image created from the file

Throws:

IOException

com.lowagie.text.BadElementException

getPdfImage

public static com.lowagie.text.Image getPdfImage(com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter writer,
                                                 File file)
                                          throws IOException,
                                                 com.lowagie.text.BadElementException

Returns a com.lowagie.text.Image from the first page of a PDF file.

Parameters:

writer - PdfWriter

file - file to read

Returns:

Image created from the file

Throws:

IOException

com.lowagie.text.BadElementException

isPDF

public static boolean isPDF(File file)

Determines whether a given file is a PDF file by extension. [Alternatively we could test whether the first 4 byte are "%PDF-".]

Parameters:

file - file to check

Returns:

Has the given file the extension ".pdf"? (case insensitive)

createTable

public static com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable createTable(List<List<Object>> xtable,
                                                         List<String> header)
                                                  throws com.lowagie.text.BadElementException,
                                                         IOException

Creates a PdfPTable.

Parameters:

xtable - xtable.get(i) represents the i-th row of the table

header - column headers for the table

Returns:

PdfPTable created from the arguments

Throws:

com.lowagie.text.BadElementException

IOException

enable4Borders

public static void enable4Borders(com.lowagie.text.Cell cell)

Sets the four borders of a cell to 0.5f.

Parameters:

cell - Cell which borders are set.