Replacing Java code using Aspose Word JAR to Aspose PDF JAR

Aspose.PDF Product Family
,
1

Hi,
I am converting aspose.word to aspose.pdf jar because of some HTML alignment issues. In aspose word I have used FindandReplace and Mail Merged fields to update lot of data. But I am wondering how to work with Aspose pdf similar to mail merge fields. Can you provide some solution.

Thanks
Lakshmi M

2

@lakshmiM

In Aspose.PDF, you can use either find and replace text functionality in order to place desired values in the PDF template OR you can create a PDF template using AcroForm and fill form fields to create desired output. Please check below API documentation articles for more information:

3

Hi,
I have a PDF HTML text like below. I tried with couple of pattern matches and still it is not giving.

Text:

The following this Attachment: <<MMRSpec>> test

I tied with Pattern.compile("<<(.?)>>") or Pattern.compile("<<(.?)>>"). But still code is not recognizing the text. And the same logic is working fine whether try with FindAndReplace in aspose.word. Can you help me with this.

		TextFragmentAbsorber textFragmentAbsorberPattern = new TextFragmentAbsorber(Pattern.compile("&lt;&lt;(.*?)&gt;&gt;")); 

		// Set text search option to specify regular expression usage
		TextSearchOptions textSearchOptionsPattern = new TextSearchOptions(true);
		// textSearchOptionsPattern.setRegularExpressionUsed(true);
		
		textFragmentAbsorberPattern.setTextSearchOptions(textSearchOptionsPattern);

		// Accept the absorber for all the pages
		pdfDocument.getPages().accept(textFragmentAbsorberPattern);

		// Get the extracted text fragments
		TextFragmentCollection textFragmentCollectionPattern = textFragmentAbsorberPattern.getTextFragments();

		// Loop through the fragments
		for (TextFragment textFragment : textFragmentCollectionPattern)
		{
		    System.out.println("Text : {0} "+ textFragment.getText());
		}
4

@lakshmiM

Would you please share your sample PDF document with us so that we can test the scenario in our environment and address it accordingly.

5

Can we create multiple sub aspose.pdf.Documents and combine into One Parent aspose.pdf.Document ? We are doing the below with aspose.word. I am looking similar approach with PDF. That way we want to maintain separate Header and Footer for each sub-documents.

Here is the sample code snippet with aspose.word:

              Document wordDocument = new Document();
		for (DocGenSelectedTemplate template : selectedTemplates) {
			if (!template.getTemplatetypeName().toUpperCase().equals("SCHEDULE A")) {
				Document wordDocumentTemplate = new Document();
				DocumentBuilder builderTemplate = new DocumentBuilder(wordDocumentTemplate);
				builderTemplate.insertHtml("Template 1");

				wordDocument.appendDocument(wordDocumentTemplate, ImportFormatMode.KEEP_SOURCE_FORMATTING);
			} else if (template.getTemplatetypeName().toUpperCase().equals("SCHEDULE A")
					&& template.getNetworkCode() != null) {
				Document wordDocumentTemplate = new Document();
				DocumentBuilder builderTemplate = new DocumentBuilder(wordDocumentTemplate);
				builderTemplate.insertHtml("Template 2");
				
				wordDocument.appendDocument(wordDocumentTemplate, ImportFormatMode.KEEP_SOURCE_FORMATTING);
			} else if (template.getTemplatetypeName().toUpperCase().equals("SCHEDULE A")
					&& template.getNetworkCode() == null) {
				Document wordDocumentTemplate = new Document();
				DocumentBuilder builderTemplate = new DocumentBuilder(wordDocumentTemplate);
				builderTemplate.insertHtml("Template 3");
				wordDocument.appendDocument(wordDocumentTemplate, ImportFormatMode.KEEP_SOURCE_FORMATTING);
			}

		}

I don’t see appendDocument function with aspose pdf. Is there any API that we could use to append multiple document templates into single document.

6

@lakshmiM

For this purpose, you need to use PdfFileStamp that can work like appending one document into another. Please check below example in the documentation article: