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    copied!<p>This is what I want to do:</p> <ol> <li><p>Make 2 different pdf files using pdfbox</p></li> <li><p>Merge these two files together using pdfmerger</p></li> </ol> <p>I know how to do this if I'm saving #1 to the server side local hard drive and load the files for the #2. But what I want to do is using "directly from the memory". I've searched all the methods from this pdfboxes but still couldn't find it.</p> <p>This is my code getting from the local file</p> <p>Thank you.</p> <pre><code>import java.io.BufferedOutputStream; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.OutputStream; import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.COSVisitorException; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.edit.PDPageContentStream; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font; import org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFMergerUtility; /** * This is an example that creates a simple document * with a ttf-font. * * @author &lt;a href="mailto:m.g.n@gmx.de"&gt;Michael Niedermair&lt;/a&gt; * @version $Revision: 1.2 $ */ public class Test2 { /** * create the second sample document from the PDF file format specification. * * @param file The file to write the PDF to. * @param message The message to write in the file. * @param fontfile The ttf-font file. * * @throws IOException If there is an error writing the data. * @throws COSVisitorException If there is an error writing the PDF. */ public void doIt(final String file, final String message) throws IOException, COSVisitorException { // the document PDDocument doc = null; try { doc = new PDDocument(); PDPage page = new PDPage(); doc.addPage(page); PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD; PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page); contentStream.beginText(); contentStream.setFont(font, 12); contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700); contentStream.drawString(message); contentStream.endText(); contentStream.close(); doc.save(file); System.out.println(file + " created!"); } finally { if (doc != null) { doc.close(); } } } /** * This will create a hello world PDF document * with a ttf-font. * &lt;br /&gt; * see usage() for commandline * * @param args Command line arguments. */ public static void main(String[] args) { Test2 app = new Test2(); Test2 app2 = new Test2(); try { app.doIt("C:/here.pdf", "hello"); app2.doIt("C:/here2.pdf", "helloagain"); PDFMergerUtility merger = new PDFMergerUtility(); merger.addSource("C:/here.pdf"); merger.addSource("C:/here2.pdf"); OutputStream bout2 = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("C:/hereisthefinal.pdf")); merger.setDestinationStream(bout2); merger.mergeDocuments(); } catch (COSVisitorException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } } } </code></pre>
 

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