How to add .png images to pdf using Apache PDFBox

Question

When I try to draw png images using pdfBox, the pages remain blank. Is there any way to insert png images using pdfBox?

public void createPDFFromImage( String in         


        

Answer 1

There is a pretty nice utility class PDImageXObject to load Images from a java.io.File. As far as I know, it works well with jpg and png files.

PDImageXObject pdImage = PDImageXObject.createFromFileByContent(imageFile, doc);
contentStream.drawImage(pdImage, 20f, 20f);