Chapter 261. PDF Component
Available as of Camel version 2.16
The PDF: components provides the ability to create, modify or extract content from PDF documents. This component uses Apache PDFBox as underlying library to work with PDF documents.
In order to use the PDF component, Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml:
pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
<artifactId>camel-pdf</artifactId>
<version>x.x.x</version>
<!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>261.1. URI format
The PDF component only supports producer endpoints.
pdf:operation[?options]
261.2. Options
The PDF component has no options.
The PDF endpoint is configured using URI syntax:
pdf:operation
with the following path and query parameters:
261.2.1. Path Parameters (1 parameters):
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| operation | Required Operation type | PdfOperation |
261.2.2. Query Parameters (9 parameters):
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| font (producer) | Font | Helvetica | PDFont |
| fontSize (producer) | Font size in pixels | 14 | float |
| marginBottom (producer) | Margin bottom in pixels | 20 | int |
| marginLeft (producer) | Margin left in pixels | 20 | int |
| marginRight (producer) | Margin right in pixels | 40 | int |
| marginTop (producer) | Margin top in pixels | 20 | int |
| pageSize (producer) | Page size | A4 | PDRectangle |
| textProcessingFactory (producer) | Text processing to use. autoFormatting: Text is getting sliced by words, then max amount of words that fits in the line will be written into pdf document. With this strategy all words that doesn’t fit in the line will be moved to the new line. lineTermination: Builds set of classes for line-termination writing strategy. Text getting sliced by line termination symbol and then it will be written regardless it fits in the line or not. | lineTermination | TextProcessingFactory |
| synchronous (advanced) | Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported). | false | boolean |
261.3. Spring Boot Auto-Configuration
The component supports 2 options, which are listed below.
| Name | Description | Default | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| camel.component.pdf.enabled | Enable pdf component | true | Boolean |
| camel.component.pdf.resolve-property-placeholders | Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders. | true | Boolean |
261.4. Headers
| Header | Description |
|---|---|
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Mandatory header for |
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| Expected type ishttps://pdfbox.apache.org/docs/1.8.10/javadocs/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/encryption/ProtectionPolicy.html[ProtectionPolicy]. If specified then PDF document will be encrypted with it. |
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| Expected type ishttps://pdfbox.apache.org/docs/1.8.10/javadocs/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/encryption/DecryptionMaterial.html[DecryptionMaterial]. Mandatory header if PDF document is encrypted. |
261.5. See Also
- Configuring Camel
- Component
- Endpoint
- Getting Started
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