PDFBox setting A5 page size

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Started playing with PDFBox

PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
PDPage page = new PDPage();
document.addPage( page );

PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont( font, 12 );
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 100, 700 );
contentStream.drawString( "Hello World" );
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();

document.save("Page.pdf");
document.close();

but I want to set the file size to be PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A5. I've tried setting all the setXXXBox(PDRectangle mediaBox) method signatures but I can't get the expected output.

page.setArtBox(PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A5); // ??
page.setMediaBox(PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A5); // ??

Any ideas?

Alok P · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-07T16:14:37.537

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Quick note: in PDFBox 2 replace PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A5 with PDRectangle.A5, i.e.

PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A5);

edited Apr 07 '17 at 16:14

answered Jun 05 '16 at 01:07

Alok P

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score 17 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 04 '15 at 11:58

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Use PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A5 to change size to A5

PDPage page = new PDPage(PDPage.PAGE_SIZE_A5);

edited Jul 04 '15 at 11:58

Bruce

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answered Nov 26 '10 at 16:17

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I'm using PDFBox 2.0.0-RC2 and got the same result with `PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A5)` – Matthias Braun Dec 10 '15 at 14:14

PDFBox setting A5 page size

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