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Chapter 125. PDF

PDF

Available as of Camel 2.16.0
The PDF component provides the ability to create, modify or extract content from PDF documents. This component uses Apache PDFBox as underlying library to work with PDF documents.
In order to use the PDF component, Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml: 
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-pdf</artifactId>
    <version>2.17.0.redhat-630xxx</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

URI format

The PDF component only supports producer endpoints. 
pdf:operation[?options]
Where operation is the specific action to perform with PDF document.

Operations

NameDefault ValueDescription
marginTop
20
Sets the margin size in pixels between text and top edge of the page.
marginBottom
20
Sets the margin size in pixels between text and bottom edge of the page.
marginLeft
20
Sets the margin size in pixels between text and left edge of the page.
marginRight
40
Sets the margin size in pixels between text and right edge of the page. This option is ignored when textProcessingFactory option is lineTermination.
fontSize
14
Sets the font size in pixels.
pageSize
PAGE_SIZE_A4
Sets the size of a page. Possible values
  • PAGE_SIZE_A0
  • PAGE_SIZE_A1
  • PAGE_SIZE_A2
  • PAGE_SIZE_A3
  • PAGE_SIZE_A4
  • PAGE_SIZE_A5
  • PAGE_SIZE_A6
  • PAGE_SIZE_LETTER
font
Helvetica
One of the base fonts in PDFBox.
textProcessingFactory
lineTermination
Sets the text processing factory. lineTermination - builds set of classes for line-termination writing strategy. Text getting sliced by line termination symbol and then it will be written regardless it fits in the line or not. autoFormatting - Text is getting sliced by words, then maximum amount of words that fits in the line will be written into PDF document. With this strategy all words that doesn't fit in the line will be moved to the new line.

Headers

Header
pdf-document
Mandatory header for append operation and ignored in all other operations. Expected type is PDDocument. Stores PDF document which will be used for append operation.
protection-policy
Expected type is ProtectionPolicy. If specified then PDF document will be encrypted with it.
decryption-material
Expected type is DecryptionMaterial. Mandatory header if PDF document is encrypted.