9.13. Render Page Sections to PNG

The reasons for testing a particular region of a PDF page are described in section 3.18: “Layout - in Clipping Areas”. To find the coordinates of the area you want to test, PDFUnit provides the small utility RenderPdfClippingAreaToImage. Choose the width, height and the position of the upper left corner and the corresponding region is then extracted into a file. Verify this file then “by eye” and vary the parameters until you got the right region. Once you have found the correct coordinates for your region, use those parameters in your PDFUnit test.

Program Start

::
:: Render a part of a PDF page into an image file
::

@echo off
setlocal
set CLASSPATH=./lib/pdfunit-2015.10/*;%CLASSPATH%
set CLASSPATH=./lib/jpedal/*;%CLASSPATH%
set CLASSPATH=./lib/bouncycastle-jdk15on-150/*;%CLASSPATH%
set CLASSPATH=./lib/aspectj-1.8.0/*;%CLASSPATH%

set TOOL=com.pdfunit.tools.RenderPdfClippingAreaToImage
set OUT_DIR=./tmp
set PAGENUMBER=1
set IN_FILE=documentForTextClipping.pdf
set PASSWD=

::  Format unit can only be 'mm' or 'points'
set FORMATUNIT=points

::  Put these values into your test code:
set UPPERLEFTX=50 
set UPPERLEFTY=130
set WIDTH=170
set HEIGHT=25

java  %TOOL%  %IN_FILE%  %PAGENUMBER%  %OUT_DIR%     
      %FORMATUNIT%  %UPPERLEFTX%  %UPPERLEFTY%  %WIDTH%  %HEIGHT%  %PASSWD%
endlocal

The linebreak in this listing is placed here only for documentation purposes.

As in line 17, mm (Millimeter) or points (Points) can be used as the unit of measurement to describe the clipping area. Maybe, you have to use a calculator to get the right values.

Input

The upper part of the input file documentForTextClipping.pdf contains the text: “ Content on first page. ”

Output

The generated image file has to be checked.

The name of the generated PNG includes the area’s coordinates. Because PDFUnit and the utility program RenderPdfClippingAreaToImage use the same algorithm, you can use the parameter values from the script for your test. And later, you can derive them from the file name:

#
# Parameters from filename:
#

_rendered_documentForTextClipping_page-1_area-50-130-170-25.out.png
                                               |  |   |   |
                                               |  |   |   +- height
                                               |  |   +- width
                                               |  +- upperLeftY
                                               +- upperLeftX

Internally PDFUnit uses functions from the project “jPedal” (http://www.idrsolutions.com/). Thanks to the developer team.

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