Example of form XObject, page overlay

6 files changed, 140 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/examples/build.mk b/examples/build.mk
index 031601ff..8033d7d2 100644
--- a/examples/build.mk
+++ b/examples/build.mk
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ BINS_examples = \
 	pdf-split-pages \
 	pdf-filter-tokens \
 	pdf-count-strings \
-	pdf-set-form-values
+	pdf-set-form-values \
+	pdf-overlay-page
 CBINS_examples = pdf-linearize
 
 TARGETS_examples = $(foreach B,$(BINS_examples) $(CBINS_examples),examples/$(OUTPUT_DIR)/$(call binname,$(B)))
diff --git a/examples/pdf-overlay-page.cc b/examples/pdf-overlay-page.cc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..88722352
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/pdf-overlay-page.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+#include <iostream>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <qpdf/QPDF.hh>
+#include <qpdf/QPDFPageDocumentHelper.hh>
+#include <qpdf/QPDFPageObjectHelper.hh>
+#include <qpdf/QPDFWriter.hh>
+#include <qpdf/QUtil.hh>
+
+// This program demonstrates use of form XObjects to overlay a page
+// from one file onto all pages of another file. The qpdf program's
+// --overlay and --underlay options provide a more general version of
+// this capability.
+
+static char const* whoami = 0;
+
+void usage()
+{
+    std::cerr << "Usage: " << whoami << " infile pagefile outfile"
+	      << std::endl
+	      << "Stamp page 1 of pagefile on every page of infile,"
+              << " writing to outfile"
+	      << std::endl;
+    exit(2);
+}
+
+static void stamp_page(char const* infile,
+                       char const* stampfile,
+                       char const* outfile)
+{
+    QPDF inpdf;
+    inpdf.processFile(infile);
+    QPDF stamppdf;
+    stamppdf.processFile(stampfile);
+
+    // Get first page from other file
+    QPDFPageObjectHelper stamp_page_1 =
+        QPDFPageDocumentHelper(stamppdf).getAllPages().at(0);
+    // Convert page to a form XObject
+    QPDFObjectHandle foreign_fo = stamp_page_1.getFormXObjectForPage();
+    // Copy form XObject to the input file
+    QPDFObjectHandle stamp_fo = inpdf.copyForeignObject(foreign_fo);
+
+    // For each page...
+    std::vector<QPDFPageObjectHelper> pages =
+        QPDFPageDocumentHelper(inpdf).getAllPages();
+    for (std::vector<QPDFPageObjectHelper>::iterator iter = pages.begin();
+         iter != pages.end(); ++iter)
+    {
+        QPDFPageObjectHelper& ph = *iter;
+
+        // Find a unique resource name for the new form XObject
+        QPDFObjectHandle resources = ph.getAttribute("/Resources", true);
+        int min_suffix = 1;
+        std::string name = resources.getUniqueResourceName("/Fx", min_suffix);
+
+        // Generate content to place the form XObject centered within
+        // destination page's trim box.
+        std::string content =
+            ph.placeFormXObject(
+                stamp_fo, name, ph.getTrimBox().getArrayAsRectangle());
+        if (! content.empty())
+        {
+            // Append the content to the page's content. Surround the
+            // original content with q...Q to the new content from the
+            // page's original content.
+            resources.mergeResources(
+                QPDFObjectHandle::parse("<< /XObject << >> >>"));
+            resources.getKey("/XObject").replaceKey(name, stamp_fo);
+            ph.addPageContents(
+                QPDFObjectHandle::newStream(&inpdf, "q\n"), true);
+            ph.addPageContents(
+                QPDFObjectHandle::newStream(&inpdf, "\nQ\n" + content), false);
+        }
+    }
+
+    QPDFWriter w(inpdf, outfile);
+    w.setStaticID(true);        // for testing only
+    w.write();
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    whoami = QUtil::getWhoami(argv[0]);
+
+    // For libtool's sake....
+    if (strncmp(whoami, "lt-", 3) == 0)
+    {
+	whoami += 3;
+    }
+
+    if (argc != 4)
+    {
+        usage();
+    }
+    char const* infile = argv[1];
+    char const* stampfile = argv[2];
+    char const* outfile = argv[3];
+
+    try
+    {
+        stamp_page(infile, stampfile, outfile);
+    }
+    catch (std::exception &e)
+    {
+	std::cerr << whoami << ": " << e.what() << std::endl;
+	exit(2);
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
diff --git a/examples/qtest/overlay-page.test b/examples/qtest/overlay-page.test
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..68e695d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/qtest/overlay-page.test
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+require 5.008;
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+chdir("overlay-page");
+
+require TestDriver;
+
+my $td = new TestDriver('overlay-page');
+
+cleanup();
+
+$td->runtest("overlay-page",
+	     {$td->COMMAND => "pdf-overlay-page in.pdf stamp.pdf a.pdf"},
+	     {$td->STRING => "", $td->EXIT_STATUS => 0});
+$td->runtest("compare files",
+	     {$td->FILE => "a.pdf"},
+	     {$td->FILE => "out.pdf"});
+
+cleanup();
+
+$td->report(2);
+
+sub cleanup
+{
+    unlink("a.pdf");
+}
diff --git a/examples/qtest/overlay-page/in.pdf b/examples/qtest/overlay-page/in.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f94c739a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/qtest/overlay-page/in.pdf
diff --git a/examples/qtest/overlay-page/out.pdf b/examples/qtest/overlay-page/out.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b589d2c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/qtest/overlay-page/out.pdf
diff --git a/examples/qtest/overlay-page/stamp.pdf b/examples/qtest/overlay-page/stamp.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a86f4344
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/qtest/overlay-page/stamp.pdf