com.lowagie.text.pdf

Class PdfFileSpecification

java.lang.Object

com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfObject

com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfDictionary

com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfFileSpecification

public class PdfFileSpecification
extends PdfDictionary

Specifies a file or an URL. The file can be extern or embedded.

Author:

Paulo Soares (psoares@consiste.pt)

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected PdfIndirectReference	ref
protected PdfWriter	writer

Fields inherited from class com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfDictionary

CATALOG, FONT, hashMap, OUTLINES, PAGE, PAGES

Fields inherited from class com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfObject

ARRAY, BOOLEAN, bytes, DICTIONARY, INDIRECT, indRef, NAME, NOTHING, NULL, NUMBER, STREAM, STRING, TEXT_PDFDOCENCODING, TEXT_UNICODE, type

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
PdfFileSpecification() Creates a new instance of PdfFileSpecification.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static PdfFileSpecification	fileEmbedded(PdfWriter writer, java.lang.String filePath, java.lang.String fileDisplay, byte[] fileStore) Creates a file specification with the file embedded.
static PdfFileSpecification	fileEmbedded(PdfWriter writer, java.lang.String filePath, java.lang.String fileDisplay, byte[] fileStore, boolean compress) Creates a file specification with the file embedded.
static PdfFileSpecification	fileExtern(PdfWriter writer, java.lang.String filePath) Creates a file specification for an external file.
PdfIndirectReference	getReference() Gets the indirect reference to this file specification.
void	setMultiByteFileName(byte[] fileName) Sets the file name (the key /F) string as an hex representation to support multi byte file names.
static PdfFileSpecification	url(PdfWriter writer, java.lang.String url) Creates a file specification of type URL.

Methods inherited from class com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfDictionary

contains, get, getKeys, isCatalog, isDictionaryType, isFont, isOutlineTree, isPage, isPages, merge, mergeDifferent, put, putAll, putDel, putEx, remove, size, toPdf, toString

Methods inherited from class com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfObject

canBeInObjStm, getBytes, getIndRef, isArray, isBoolean, isDictionary, isIndirect, isName, isNull, isNumber, isStream, isString, length, setContent, setIndRef, type

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

writer

protected PdfWriter writer

ref

protected PdfIndirectReference ref

Constructor Detail

PdfFileSpecification

public PdfFileSpecification()

Creates a new instance of PdfFileSpecification. The static methods are preferred.

Method Detail

url

public static PdfFileSpecification url(PdfWriter writer,
                       java.lang.String url)

Creates a file specification of type URL.

Parameters:

writer - the PdfWriter

url - the URL

Returns:

the file specification

fileEmbedded

public static PdfFileSpecification fileEmbedded(PdfWriter writer,
                                java.lang.String filePath,
                                java.lang.String fileDisplay,
                                byte[] fileStore)
                                         throws java.io.IOException

Creates a file specification with the file embedded. The file may come from the file system or from a byte array. The data is flate compressed.

Parameters:

writer - the PdfWriter

filePath - the file path

fileDisplay - the file information that is presented to the user

fileStore - the byte array with the file. If it is not null it takes precedence over filePath

Returns:

the file specification

Throws:

java.io.IOException - on error

fileEmbedded

public static PdfFileSpecification fileEmbedded(PdfWriter writer,
                                java.lang.String filePath,
                                java.lang.String fileDisplay,
                                byte[] fileStore,
                                boolean compress)
                                         throws java.io.IOException

Creates a file specification with the file embedded. The file may come from the file system or from a byte array.

Parameters:

writer - the PdfWriter

filePath - the file path

fileDisplay - the file information that is presented to the user

fileStore - the byte array with the file. If it is not null it takes precedence over filePath

compress - sets the compression on the data. Multimedia content will benefit little from compression

Returns:

the file specification

Throws:

java.io.IOException - on error

fileExtern

public static PdfFileSpecification fileExtern(PdfWriter writer,
                              java.lang.String filePath)

Creates a file specification for an external file.

Parameters:

writer - the PdfWriter

filePath - the file path

Returns:

the file specification

getReference

public PdfIndirectReference getReference()
                                  throws java.io.IOException

Gets the indirect reference to this file specification. Multiple invocations will retrieve the same value.

Returns:

the indirect reference

Throws:

java.io.IOException - on error

setMultiByteFileName

public void setMultiByteFileName(byte[] fileName)

Sets the file name (the key /F) string as an hex representation to support multi byte file names. The name must heve th slash and backslash escaped according to the file specification rules

Parameters:

fileName - the file name as a byte array