Package org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf
Class Splitter
java.lang.Object
org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.Splitter
Split a document into several other documents.
- Author:
- Mario Ivankovits, Ben Litchfield
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Constructor Summary
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Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionprotected PDDocument
Create a new document to write the split contents to.protected final PDDocument
The source PDF document.protected final PDDocument
The source PDF document.protected void
processPage
(PDPage page) Interface to start processing a new page.void
setEndPage
(int end) This will set the end page.void
setMemoryUsageSetting
(MemoryUsageSetting memoryUsageSetting) Set the memory setting.void
setSplitAtPage
(int split) This will tell the splitting algorithm where to split the pages.void
setStartPage
(int start) This will set the start page.split
(PDDocument document) This will take a document and split into several other documents.protected boolean
splitAtPage
(int pageNumber) Check if it is necessary to create a new document.
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Constructor Details
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Splitter
public Splitter()
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Method Details
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getMemoryUsageSetting
- Returns:
- the current memory setting.
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setMemoryUsageSetting
Set the memory setting.- Parameters:
memoryUsageSetting
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split
This will take a document and split into several other documents.- Parameters:
document
- The document to split.- Returns:
- A list of all the split documents.
- Throws:
IOException
- If there is an IOError
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setSplitAtPage
public void setSplitAtPage(int split) This will tell the splitting algorithm where to split the pages. The default is 1, so every page will become a new document. If it was two then each document would contain 2 pages. If the source document had 5 pages it would split into 3 new documents, 2 documents containing 2 pages and 1 document containing one page.- Parameters:
split
- The number of pages each split document should contain.- Throws:
IllegalArgumentException
- if the page is smaller than one.
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setStartPage
public void setStartPage(int start) This will set the start page.- Parameters:
start
- the 1-based start page- Throws:
IllegalArgumentException
- if the start page is smaller than one.
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setEndPage
public void setEndPage(int end) This will set the end page.- Parameters:
end
- the 1-based end page- Throws:
IllegalArgumentException
- if the end page is smaller than one.
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splitAtPage
protected boolean splitAtPage(int pageNumber) Check if it is necessary to create a new document. By default a split occurs at every page. If you wanted to split based on some complex logic then you could override this method. For example.protected void splitAtPage() { // will split at pages with prime numbers only return isPrime(pageNumber); }
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pageNumber
- the 0-based page number to be checked as splitting page- Returns:
- true If a new document should be created.
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createNewDocument
Create a new document to write the split contents to.- Returns:
- the newly created PDDocument.
- Throws:
IOException
- If there is an problem creating the new document.
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processPage
Interface to start processing a new page.- Parameters:
page
- The page that is about to get processed.- Throws:
IOException
- If there is an error creating the new document.
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getSourceDocument
The source PDF document.- Returns:
- the pdf to be split
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getDestinationDocument
The source PDF document.- Returns:
- current destination pdf
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