How to shrink the contents in a PDF document using Java.
Following is the program to shrink contents in a PDF document using Java.
import com.itextpdf.kernel.geom.AffineTransform; import com.itextpdf.kernel.geom.Rectangle; import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfDocument; import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfPage; import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfReader; import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfWriter; import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.canvas.PdfCanvas; import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.xobject.PdfFormXObject; import com.itextpdf.layout.Document; public class ShrinkPDF { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { //Creating a PdfWriter object String dest = "C:/itextExamples/shrinking.pdf"; PdfWriter writer = new PdfWriter(dest); //Creating a PdfReader String src = "C:/itextExamples/pdfWithImage.pdf"; PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src); //Creating a PdfDocument objects PdfDocument destpdf = new PdfDocument(writer); PdfDocument srcPdf = new PdfDocument(reader); //Opening a page from the existing PDF PdfPage origPage = srcPdf.getPage(1); //Getting the page size Rectangle orig = origPage.getPageSizeWithRotation(); //Adding a page to destination Pdf PdfPage page = destpdf.addNewPage(); //Scaling the image in a Pdf page AffineTransform transformationMatrix = AffineTransform.getScaleInstance( page.getPageSize().getWidth()/ orig.getWidth()/2, page.getPageSize().getHeight()/ orig.getHeight()/2); //Shrink original page content using transformation matrix PdfCanvas canvas = new PdfCanvas(page); canvas.concatMatrix(transformationMatrix); //Add the object to the canvas PdfFormXObject pageCopy = origPage.copyAsFormXObject(destpdf); canvas.addXObject(pageCopy, 0, 0); //Creating a Document object Document doc = new Document(destpdf); //Closing the document doc.close(); System.out.println("Table created successfully.."); } }