How to display an image in PdfBox 2.0.3? - pdfbox

Question

Can someone give me an example on how to display image in PDF file using Apache PDFBox 2.0.3?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You might want to look at the pdfbox examples directory in the Apache SVN repository, in particular the aptly named example class AddImageToPDF with this pivotal method:
public void createPDFFromImage( String inputFile, String imagePath, String outputFile )
throws IOException
{
// the document
PDDocument doc = null;
try
{
doc = PDDocument.load( new File(inputFile) );
//we will add the image to the first page.
PDPage page = doc.getPage(0);
// createFromFile is the easiest way with an image file
// if you already have the image in a BufferedImage,
// call LosslessFactory.createFromImage() instead
PDImageXObject pdImage = PDImageXObject.createFromFile(imagePath, doc);
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page, AppendMode.APPEND, true);
// contentStream.drawImage(ximage, 20, 20 );
// better method inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/a/22318681/535646
// reduce this value if the image is too large
float scale = 1f;
contentStream.drawImage(pdImage, 20, 20, pdImage.getWidth()*scale, pdImage.getHeight()*scale);
contentStream.close();
doc.save( outputFile );
}
finally
{
if( doc != null )
{
doc.close();
}
}
}