Help please. I'm trying to get a "deferred" digital signature and embed it in a PDF document. On the server (.net core 3.1) I create a test pdf and add an empty container for the signature. To do this, I use the iTextSharp package (version 5.5.13.3):
public static byte[] GetPdfBytesToSign(byte[] unsignedPdf, string signatureFieldName)
{
//unsignedPdf - source PDF
using (PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(unsignedPdf))
{
//looking for existing signatures
int existingSignaturesNumber = reader.AcroFields.GetSignatureNames().Count;
using (MemoryStream tempPdf = new MemoryStream())
{
//add an empty container for a new signature
using (PdfStamper st = PdfStamper.CreateSignature(reader, tempPdf, '\0', null, true))
{
PdfSignatureAppearance appearance = st.SignatureAppearance;
appearance.SetVisibleSignature(new Rectangle(205, 700, 390, 800), reader.NumberOfPages,
//set the name of the field, it will be needed later to insert a signature
$"{signatureFieldName}{existingSignaturesNumber + 1}");
ExternalBlankSignatureContainer external = new ExternalBlankSignatureContainer(PdfName.ADOBE_PPKLITE, PdfName.ADBE_PKCS7_DETACHED);
MakeSignature.SignExternalContainer(appearance, external, BufferSize);
//get a stream that contains the sequence we want to sign
using (Stream contentStream = appearance.GetRangeStream())
{
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
contentStream.CopyTo(memoryStream);
byte[] bytesToSign = memoryStream.ToArray();
return bytesToSign;
}
}
}
}
}
And here is the problem!!! For some reason, iText can't read the PDF it created with an empty signature container (to embed the received signature from the client).
public static byte[] GetSignedPdf(byte[] unsignedPdfWithContainer, byte[] signature)
{
using var pdfReader = new PdfReader(unsignedPdfWithContainer);//<--throwing an exception here
using var output = new MemoryStream();
var external = new MyExternalSignatureContainer(signature);
MakeSignature.SignDeferred(pdfReader, SignatureFieldName, output, external);
return output.ToArray();
}
I am getting the following exception:
iTextSharp.text.exceptions.InvalidPdfException: "Unexpected '>>' at file pointer 1432"
Test(source) pdf is created like this:
public static byte[] CreatePdf()
{
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 25, 25, 30, 30);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, ms);
document.Open();
document.Add(new Paragraph("Hello World!"));
document.Close();
writer.Close();
return ms.ToArray();
}
}
I'm looking to convert an Image (PNG, JPEG, GIF), in the form of a byte[] to a PDF.
I'm currently using this function, which works, but cuts off the bottom of images that over a certain height or specific proportions; for example 500x2000.
Where am I going wrong here?
public byte[] ConvertImageToPDF(byte[] bytes)
{
byte[] pdfArray;
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
{
using (var pdfWriter = new PdfWriter(memoryStream))
{
var pdf = new PdfDocument(pdfWriter);
var document = new Document(pdf);
ImageData imageData = ImageDataFactory.Create(bytes);
document.Add(new Image(imageData));
document.Close();
}
pdfArray = memoryStream.ToArray();
}
return pdfArray;
}
I suppose what you want is the PdfWriter to auto-scale the Image inside the Document.
Optionally, position the Image in the center of the Page.
You can change your code setting [Image].SetAutoScale(true) and [Image].SetHorizontalAlignment(HorizontalAlignment.CENTER):
Note: I've defined aliases for iText.Layout.Properties (alias: PdfProperties) and iText.Layout.Element.Image (alias: PdfImage), to avoid conflict with other .Net assemblies that have classes and enumerators with the same exact names. Just remove them in case you don't need them at all.
using iText.IO.Image;
using iText.Kernel.Pdf;
using iText.Layout;
using PdfProperties = iText.Layout.Properties;
using PdfImage = iText.Layout.Element.Image;
public byte[] ConvertImageToPDF(byte[] imageBytes)
{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream()) {
using (var pdfWriter = new PdfWriter(ms)) {
var pdf = new PdfDocument(pdfWriter);
var document = new Document(pdf);
var img = new PdfImage(ImageDataFactory.Create(imageBytes))
.SetAutoScale(true)
.SetHorizontalAlignment(PdfProperties.HorizontalAlignment.CENTER);
document.Add(img);
document.Close();
pdf.Close();
return ms.ToArray();
}
}
}
You can also specify the size, in floating point units, of the Image and use the [Image].ScaleToFit() method, to scale the Image within those bounds.
Here, using a PageSize set to PageSize.A4. You can of course set different measures.
using iText.Kernel.Geom;
// [...]
var document = new Document(pdf);
var page = document.GetPageEffectiveArea(PageSize.A4);
var img = new PdfImage(ImageDataFactory.Create(imageBytes))
.ScaleToFit(page.GetWidth(), page.GetHeight())
.SetHorizontalAlignment(PdfProperties.HorizontalAlignment.CENTER);
// [...]
I am trying to add a Cover Page PDF file to another PDF file. I am using CopyPagesTo method. CoverPageFilePath will go before any pages in the pdfDocumentFile. I then need to rewrite that new file to the same location. When I run the code and open the new pdf file I get an error about it being damaged.
public static void iText7MergePDF()
{
byte[] modifiedPdfInBytes = null;
string pdfCoverPageFilePath = #"PathtoCoverPage\Cover Page.pdf";
PdfDocument pdfDocumentCover = new PdfDocument(new iText.Kernel.Pdf.PdfReader(pdfCoverPageFilePath));
string pdfDocumentFile =#"PathtoFullDocument.pdf";
var buffer = File.ReadAllBytes(pdfDocumentFile);
using (var originalPdfStream = new MemoryStream(buffer))
using (var modifiedPdfStream = new MemoryStream())
{
var pdfReader = new iText.Kernel.Pdf.PdfReader(originalPdfStream);
var pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(pdfReader, new PdfWriter(modifiedPdfStream));
int numberOfPages = pdfDocumentCover.GetNumberOfPages();
pdfDocumentCover.CopyPagesTo(1, numberOfPages, pdfDocument);
modifiedPdfInBytes = modifiedPdfStream.ToArray();
pdfDocument.Close();
}
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(pdfGL, modifiedPdfInBytes);
}
Whenever you have some other type, like a StreamWriter, or here a PdfWriter writing to a Stream, it may not write all the data to the Stream immediately.
Here you Close the pdfDocument for all the data to be written to the MemoryStream.
ie this
modifiedPdfInBytes = modifiedPdfStream.ToArray();
pdfDocument.Close();
Should be
pdfDocument.Close();
modifiedPdfInBytes = modifiedPdfStream.ToArray();
I have a pdf document (created by iTextSharp - free version 4.1.6) and I want to add text / table at the top of this pdf. I have tried to create two memory streams from iTextSharp Documents and combine them to one, see my code below. But the new PDF file cannot be opened. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Any other ideas to add text / table at the top of an existing PDF? Thanks in advance!
public void CreateTestPDF(string _pathOfOriginalPDF, string _pathOfModifiedPDF)
{
string oldFile = _pathOfOriginalPDF;
string newFile = pathOfModifiedPDF;
byte[] bytesHeader;
byte[] bytesBody;
byte[] bytesCombined;
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
Document doc = new Document();
doc.Open();
doc.Add(new Paragraph("This is my header paragraph"));
if (doc.IsOpen())
{
doc.Close();
}
bytesHeader = ms.ToArray();
}
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
Document doc = new Document();
//doc.Open();
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, new FileStream(oldFile, FileMode.Create));
if (doc.IsOpen())
{
doc.Close();
}
bytesBody = ms.ToArray();
}
IEnumerable<byte> iCombined = bytesHeader.Concat(bytesBody);
bytesCombined = iCombined.ToArray();
string testFile = _pathOfModifiedPDF;
using (FileStream fs = File.Create(testFile))
{
fs.Write(bytesBody, 0, (int)bytesBody.Length);
}
}
I looked into iTextSharp and SharpPDF and Report.Net as well as PDFSharp.
None of these open source projects have good documentation OR do not work with VS 2012.
Does anyone have a recommended solution or can show me the documentation?
My employer blocks many sites and although Google is not blocked, some of the results are.
I plan on using C# with WinForms and obtaining my data from an Access DB
Hey #Cocoa Dev get this a complete example with diferent functions.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using System.Data;
using System.Text;
using System.util.collections;
using iTextSharp.text;
using System.Net.Mail;
public partial class PDFScenarios : System.Web.UI.Page
{
public string P_InputStream = "~/MyPDFTemplates/ex1.pdf";
public string P_InputStream2 = "~/MyPDFTemplates/ContactInfo.pdf";
public string P_InputStream3 = "~/MyPDFTemplates/MulPages.pdf";
public string P_InputStream4 = "~/MyPDFTemplates/CompanyLetterHead.pdf";
public string P_OutputStream = "~/MyPDFOutputs/ex1_1.pdf";
//Read all 'Form values/keys' from an existing multi-page PDF document
public void ReadPDFformDataPageWise()
{
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(Server.MapPath(P_InputStream3));
AcroFields form = reader.AcroFields;
try
{
for (int page = 1; page <= reader.NumberOfPages; page++)
{
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, AcroFields.Item> kvp in form.Fields)
{
switch (form.GetFieldType(kvp.Key))
{
case AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_CHECKBOX:
case AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_COMBO:
case AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_LIST:
case AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_RADIOBUTTON:
case AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_NONE:
case AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_PUSHBUTTON:
case AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_SIGNATURE:
case AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_TEXT:
int fileType = form.GetFieldType(kvp.Key);
string fieldValue = form.GetField(kvp.Key);
string translatedFileName = form.GetTranslatedFieldName(kvp.Key);
break;
}
}
}
}
catch
{
}
finally
{
reader.Close();
}
}
//Read and alter form values for only second and
//third page of an existing multi page PDF doc.
//Save the changes in a brand new pdf file.
public void ReadAlterPDFformDataInSelectedPages()
{
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(Server.MapPath(P_InputStream3));
reader.SelectPages("1-2"); //Work with only page# 1 & 2
using (PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileStream(Server.MapPath(P_OutputStream), FileMode.Create)))
{
AcroFields form = stamper.AcroFields;
var fieldKeys = form.Fields.Keys;
foreach (string fieldKey in fieldKeys)
{
//Replace Address Form field with my custom data
if (fieldKey.Contains("Address"))
{
form.SetField(fieldKey, "MyCustomAddress");
}
}
//The below will make sure the fields are not editable in
//the output PDF.
stamper.FormFlattening = true;
}
}
//Extract text from an existing PDF's second page.
private string ExtractText()
{
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(Server.MapPath(P_InputStream3));
string txt = PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(reader, 2, new LocationTextExtractionStrategy());
return txt;
}
//Create a brand new PDF from scratch and without a template
private void CreatePDFNoTemplate()
{
Document pdfDoc = new Document();
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, new FileStream(Server.MapPath(P_OutputStream), FileMode.OpenOrCreate));
pdfDoc.Open();
pdfDoc.Add(new Paragraph("Some data"));
PdfContentByte cb = writer.DirectContent;
cb.MoveTo(pdfDoc.PageSize.Width / 2, pdfDoc.PageSize.Height / 2);
cb.LineTo(pdfDoc.PageSize.Width / 2, pdfDoc.PageSize.Height);
cb.Stroke();
pdfDoc.Close();
}
private void fillPDFForm()
{
string formFile = Server.MapPath(P_InputStream);
string newFile = Server.MapPath(P_OutputStream);
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(formFile);
using (PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileStream(newFile, FileMode.Create)))
{
AcroFields fields = stamper.AcroFields;
// set form fields
fields.SetField("name", "John Doe");
fields.SetField("address", "xxxxx, yyyy");
fields.SetField("postal_code", "12345");
fields.SetField("email", "johndoe#xxx.com");
// flatten form fields and close document
stamper.FormFlattening = true;
stamper.Close();
}
}
//Helper functions
private void SendEmail(MemoryStream ms)
{
MailAddress _From = new MailAddress("XXX#domain.com");
MailAddress _To = new MailAddress("YYY#a.com");
MailMessage email = new MailMessage(_From, _To);
Attachment attach = new Attachment(ms, new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("application/pdf"));
email.Attachments.Add(attach);
SmtpClient mailSender = new SmtpClient("Gmail-Server");
mailSender.Send(email);
}
private void DownloadAsPDF(MemoryStream ms)
{
Response.Clear();
Response.ClearContent();
Response.ClearHeaders();
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=abc.pdf");
Response.OutputStream.Write(ms.GetBuffer(), 0, ms.GetBuffer().Length);
Response.OutputStream.Flush();
Response.OutputStream.Close();
Response.End();
ms.Close();
}
//Working with Memory Stream and PDF
public void CreatePDFFromMemoryStream()
{
//(1)using PDFWriter
Document doc = new Document();
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, memoryStream);
doc.Open();
doc.Add(new Paragraph("Some Text"));
writer.CloseStream = false;
doc.Close();
//Get the pointer to the beginning of the stream.
memoryStream.Position = 0;
//You may use this PDF in memorystream to send as an attachment in an email
//OR download as a PDF
SendEmail(memoryStream);
DownloadAsPDF(memoryStream);
//(2)Another way using PdfStamper
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(Server.MapPath(P_InputStream2));
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, ms);
AcroFields fields = stamper.AcroFields;
fields.SetField("SomeField", "MyValueFromDB");
stamper.FormFlattening = true;
stamper.Close();
SendEmail(ms);
}
}
//Burst-- Make each page of an existing multi-page PDF document
//as another brand new PDF document
private void PDFBurst()
{
string pdfTemplatePath = Server.MapPath(P_InputStream3);
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(pdfTemplatePath);
//PdfCopy copy;
PdfSmartCopy copy;
for (int i = 1; i < reader.NumberOfPages; i++)
{
Document d1 = new Document();
copy = new PdfSmartCopy(d1, new FileStream(Server.MapPath(P_OutputStream).Replace(".pdf", i.ToString() + ".pdf"), FileMode.Create));
d1.Open();
copy.AddPage(copy.GetImportedPage(reader, i));
d1.Close();
}
}
//Copy a set of form fields from an existing PDF template/doc
//and keep appending to a brand new PDF file.
//The copied set of fields will have different values.
private void AppendSetOfFormFields()
{
PdfCopyFields _copy = new PdfCopyFields(new FileStream(Server.MapPath(P_OutputStream), FileMode.Create));
_copy.AddDocument(new PdfReader(a1("1")));
_copy.AddDocument(new PdfReader(a1("2")));
_copy.AddDocument(new PdfReader(new FileStream(Server.MapPath("~/MyPDFTemplates/Myaspx.pdf"), FileMode.Open)));
_copy.Close();
}
//ConcatenateForms
private byte[] a1(string _ToAppend)
{
using (var existingFileStream = new FileStream(Server.MapPath(P_InputStream), FileMode.Open))
using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
{
// Open existing PDF
var pdfReader = new PdfReader(existingFileStream);
var stamper = new PdfStamper(pdfReader, stream);
var form = stamper.AcroFields;
var fieldKeys = form.Fields.Keys;
foreach (string fieldKey in fieldKeys)
{
form.RenameField(fieldKey, fieldKey + _ToAppend);
}
// "Flatten" the form so it wont be editable/usable anymore
stamper.FormFlattening = true;
stamper.Close();
pdfReader.Close();
return stream.ToArray();
}
}
//Working with Image
private void AddAnImage()
{
using (var inputPdfStream = new FileStream(#"C:\MyInput.pdf", FileMode.Open))
using (var inputImageStream = new FileStream(#"C:\img1.jpg", FileMode.Open))
using (var outputPdfStream = new FileStream(#"C:\MyOutput.pdf", FileMode.Create))
{
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(inputPdfStream);
PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, outputPdfStream);
PdfContentByte pdfContentByte = stamper.GetOverContent(1);
var image = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(inputImageStream);
image.SetAbsolutePosition(1, 1);
pdfContentByte.AddImage(image);
stamper.Close();
}
}
//Add Company Letter-Head/Stationary to an existing pdf
private void AddCompanyStationary()
{
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(Server.MapPath(P_InputStream2));
PdfReader s_reader = new PdfReader(Server.MapPath(P_InputStream4));
using (PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileStream(Server.MapPath(P_OutputStream), FileMode.Create)))
{
PdfImportedPage page = stamper.GetImportedPage(s_reader, 1);
int n = reader.NumberOfPages;
PdfContentByte background;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++)
{
background = stamper.GetUnderContent(i);
background.AddTemplate(page, 0, 0);
}
stamper.Close();
}
}
Try this example:
using iTextSharp.text;
// Set up the fonts to be used on the pages
private Font _largeFont = new Font(Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 18, Font.BOLD, BaseColor.BLACK);
private Font _standardFont = new Font(Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 14, Font.NORMAL, BaseColor.BLACK);
private Font _smallFont = new Font(Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 10, Font.NORMAL, BaseColor.BLACK);
public void Build()
{
iTextSharp.text.Document doc = null;
try
{
// Initialize the PDF document
doc = new Document();
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfWriter writer = iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc,
new System.IO.FileStream(System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "\\ScienceReport.pdf",
System.IO.FileMode.Create));
// Set margins and page size for the document
doc.SetMargins(50, 50, 50, 50);
// There are a huge number of possible page sizes, including such sizes as
// EXECUTIVE, LEGAL, LETTER_LANDSCAPE, and NOTE
doc.SetPageSize(new iTextSharp.text.Rectangle(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.LETTER.Width,
iTextSharp.text.PageSize.LETTER.Height));
// Add metadata to the document. This information is visible when viewing the
// document properities within Adobe Reader.
doc.AddTitle("My Science Report");
doc.AddCreator("M. Lichtenberg");
doc.AddKeywords("paper airplanes");
// Add Xmp metadata to the document.
this.CreateXmpMetadata(writer);
// Open the document for writing content
doc.Open();
// Add pages to the document
this.AddPageWithBasicFormatting(doc);
this.AddPageWithInternalLinks(doc);
this.AddPageWithBulletList(doc);
this.AddPageWithExternalLinks(doc);
this.AddPageWithImage(doc, System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "\\FinalGraph.jpg");
// Add page labels to the document
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPageLabels pdfPageLabels = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPageLabels();
pdfPageLabels.AddPageLabel(1, iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPageLabels.EMPTY, "Basic Formatting");
pdfPageLabels.AddPageLabel(2, iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPageLabels.EMPTY, "Internal Links");
pdfPageLabels.AddPageLabel(3, iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPageLabels.EMPTY, "Bullet List");
pdfPageLabels.AddPageLabel(4, iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPageLabels.EMPTY, "External Links");
pdfPageLabels.AddPageLabel(5, iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPageLabels.EMPTY, "Image");
writer.PageLabels = pdfPageLabels;
}
catch (iTextSharp.text.DocumentException dex)
{
// Handle iTextSharp errors
}
finally
{
// Clean up
doc.Close();
doc = null;
}
}
You can always just create an html page and then convert that to pdf using wkhtmltopdf. This has the benefit of you not having to construct the pdf with a library such as iText. You just make a text file (html) and then pass it to the wkhtmltopdf executable.
See Calling wkhtmltopdf to generate PDF from HTML for more info.