PeopleSoft: PDF File Examples

Read XMP XML PDF Metadata Tutorial PeopleCode Example

At the end of the previous post, we learned the basics of adding metadata to a PDF file as an XMP stream. We were able to create a PDF file using Java iText and write some metadata information into it in XMP specification using PeopleCode. In this post, we will see how to read the XMP information back from a PDF file and look for specific tags we are interested upon. I have an existing PDF file [ ....

PeopleSoft View PDF Metadata Example Tutorial

In the previous blog,we described how to add metadata into a PDF document through Peoplecode (info dictionary) approach, using the iText Java API. We will extend that post in this tutorial and describe how to read the metadata added into the info dictionary from PeopleCode. I would like to read all the metadata information that is available inside the PDF document iteratively and print them in ....

PeopleCode Format Style PDF Example

Continuing our series of tutorials that explains how to generate PDF document from PeopleSoft applications; in this post we will see how to change the font style from PeopleSoft applications while creating PDF files.Varying the font style on generated PDF is a common requirement whether you want to add a Heading, Create a footnote and so on. It will be handy to have a working PeopleCode example ....

PeopleCode PDF Password Protection Example

We saw how to create a password protected secure PDF document using iText in Java earlier. In this post, we will do an extension to what we discussed. We will discuss how to generate a password protected PDF document from PeopleCode. We will be using Javaobjects to accomplish this ; so make sure that you have loaded the latest iText jar file to your application server class folder. Also, load the ....

Change Cell Width Border Color iText Example PeopleCode Tutorial

This tutorial explains how to dynamically change the border width of a cell inside a Table using iText Java API and PeopleCode. In the first tutorial of this series, we discussed an approach to change the background and border color of a Cell using PeopleCode. You can think this tutorial as an extension to the first one as this dwells more on cell level properties of a PdfPTable object. To run ....

Change Table Cell Color iText Example PeopleCode Tutorial

We are going to provide a new set of PeopleCode example tutorials in which we will explain how to apply different formatting options for a table that is embedded inside a PDF file, created through PeopleCode. They will be built on top of our initial tutorial on PeopleSoft iText that explained how to create a basic table inside a PDF file.To start with I have a table with two rows and three ....

Split PDF by Size Example PeopleCode iText Tutorial

In our previous post, we provided a tutorial that explained how to split a PDF document based on file size in Java Using the iText library. In this example, we will discuss how to divide a PDF file into different parts with a specific size in PeopleSoft. We will give a PeopleCode example that will invoke the iText API using JavaObjects and slice a PDF files into equivalent parts based on the size ....

PeopleSoft Add XMP Metadata PDF Example Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will discuss how to embed an XMP Metadata Stream into a PDF document using PeopleCode. We have been discussing for a while on creating Metadata in PDF documents using PeopleCode. This example can be considered as an extension of the examples, as it dwells more on adding this metadata as an XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) stream through PeopleSoft. For you to understand ....

PeopleSoft Edit PDF Metadata Example Tutorial

We have discussed the procedure to add PDF Metadata through PeopleCode and read back the metadata information stamped into a PDF document. In this post, we will describe a method to update an existing PDF document's metadata using PeopleCode. It is assumed that the metadata available inside the PDF is not an XMP embedded stream. We will be covering how to embed XMP Metadata Stream into a PDF ....

PeopleSoft Add PDF Metadata Example Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a PDF file in PeopleSoft and add metadata information to the PDF file, using the Java iText library. We have been discussing for a while on metadata addition / update through Java and we will be extending this to PeopleCode in the upcoming tutorials. It would be wise to go through the beginner tutorial on creating PDF documents in PeopleSoft as it ....

PeopleSoft Split PDF Document Example PeopleCode Tutorial

This post presents a tutorial that explains how to split a big PDF document into smaller parts using PeopleCode. You may be here because you got a requirement to separate a PDF into multiple parts based on size, number of pages, fixed number of documents and so on..and you are looking for a solution to solve this case using iText PDF library and PeopleSoft. As we take you through to this example, ....

PeopleSoft Merge PDF File Example PeopleCode Tutorial

In this example tutorial, we will provide the instructions on how to merge PDF documents in PeopleSoft applications using PeopleCode. We had earlier seen an example for joining PDF files through Java.You may end up creating PDF documents through PeopleCode, and position yourself in a case where you have to copy the contents of two or multiple PDF files into one single document. This guide assumes ....

PeopleSoft Add Image PDF File Example

In this tutorial, we will discuss how to add image to PDF files from PeopleSoft applications. We will be using the iText PDF API and integrate it with PeopleSoft for this example. I would also like to recommend reading the Java tutorial to Add image to PDF provided on this website earlier as the implementation in PeopleSoft would be closely aligned to that example. Once you have installed / ....

PeopleCode PDF Add Hyperlink Example

In one of the posts earlier, we saw how to create an internal hyperlink in PDF document using Java. On same lines in this post, we will discuss how to create an internal reference in a PDF document from PeopleCode using Java IText API. We will use a mix of PeopleCode and Java reflection / wrapper class techniques and create a PDF document with an internal reference link from PeopleSoft. The step ....

PeopleCode Itext Integration Approaches

At this stage, we know that there is no straightforward method (like File Layouts to generate basic excel documents) to create PDF documents from Peoplecode. We have to make use of open source libraries like iText to generate PDF documents. Now, within PeopleCode there are two approaches to generate a PDF document; 1) Load the iText jar file to the classes folder and use PeopleCode / Reflection ....

PeopleCode Create PDF Table Example

In this tutorial, we will see how to create a table inside a PDF document from PeopleSoft using iText Java library. We earlier saw a beginners tutorial on how to create PDF documents from PeopleCode. This example is an extension of that tutorial. We will be using Document and PdfWriter objects in this tutorial also and I would recommend the readers to go through the beginners tutorial to get a ....

PeopleCode WaterMark PDF Documents

We saw how to get started with generating PDF documents in PeopleSoft earlier. In this post, we will discuss how to add watermark to a PDF document through PeopleCode. We will use an existing PDF document, Add_Watermark.pdf and then use iText from PeopleCode to add a watermark to it. The procedure for adding a watermark through PeopleCode is on the same lines as of Java Watermarking example. So ....

PeopleSoft Create PDF File Example

We all know it is possible to generate a PDF Document from PeopleSoft. But how? This blog post will aim to help a beginner to the world of creating PDF documents from a PeopleSoft application. I will not be covering in-depth PDF creation concepts, but will show a beginner, that is indeed possible to create PDF documents through PeopleCode. This post is essentially the Hello World of creating ....