Example in answer to the question How to move the content inside a rectangle inside an existing PDF?
CutAndPaste.java
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/*
This file is part of the iText (R) project.
Copyright (c) 1998-2019 iText Group NV
Authors: iText Software.
For more information, please contact iText Software at this address:
sales@itextpdf.com
*/
/**
* Example written by Bruno Lowagie.
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28368317/itext-or-itextsharp-move-text-in-an-existing-pdf
*/
package com.itextpdf.samples.sandbox.merge;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.geom.PageSize;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.geom.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfDocument;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.canvas.PdfCanvas;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.xobject.PdfFormXObject;
import com.itextpdf.samples.GenericTest;
import com.itextpdf.test.annotations.type.SampleTest;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
@Category(SampleTest.class)
public class CutAndPaste extends GenericTest {
public static final String DEST = "./target/test/resources/sandbox/merge/page229_cut_paste.pdf";
public static final String SRC = "./src/test/resources/pdfs/page229.pdf";
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
File file = new File(DEST);
file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
new CutAndPaste().manipulatePdf(DEST);
}
public void manipulatePdf(String dest) throws IOException {
Rectangle toMove = new Rectangle(100, 500, 100, 100);
PdfDocument srcDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(SRC));
Rectangle pageSize = srcDoc.getFirstPage().getPageSize();
PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(DEST));
pdfDoc.setDefaultPageSize(new PageSize(pageSize));
pdfDoc.addNewPage();
PdfFormXObject t_canvas1 = new PdfFormXObject(pageSize);
PdfCanvas canvas1 = new PdfCanvas(t_canvas1, pdfDoc);
PdfFormXObject pageXObject = srcDoc.getFirstPage().copyAsFormXObject(pdfDoc);
canvas1.rectangle(0, 0, pageSize.getWidth(), pageSize.getHeight());
canvas1.rectangle(toMove.getLeft(), toMove.getBottom(),
toMove.getWidth(), toMove.getHeight());
canvas1.eoClip();
canvas1.newPath();
canvas1.addXObject(pageXObject, 0, 0);
PdfFormXObject t_canvas2 = new PdfFormXObject(pageSize);
PdfCanvas canvas2 = new PdfCanvas(t_canvas2, pdfDoc);
canvas2.rectangle(toMove.getLeft(), toMove.getBottom(),
toMove.getWidth(), toMove.getHeight());
canvas2.clip();
canvas2.newPath();
canvas2.addXObject(pageXObject, 0, 0);
PdfCanvas canvas = new PdfCanvas(pdfDoc.getFirstPage());
canvas.addXObject(t_canvas1, 0, 0);
canvas.addXObject(t_canvas2, -20, -2);
srcDoc.close();
pdfDoc.close();
}
}