PdfRendererPreV
  public
  
  final
  
  class
  PdfRendererPreV
  
    extends Object
  
  
  
  
  
      implements
      
        AutoCloseable
      
  
  
| java.lang.Object | |
| ↳ | android.graphics.pdf.PdfRendererPreV | 
This class enables rendering a PDF document and selecting, searching, fast scrolling, annotations, etc from Android R till Android U. This class is thread safe and can be called by multiple threads however only one thread will be executed at a time as the access is synchronized by internal locking.
If you want to render a PDF, you will need to create a new instance of renderer for each document. To render each page, you open the page using the renderer instance created earlier, render it, and close the page. After you are done with rendering, you close the renderer. After the renderer is closed it should not be used anymore. Note that the pages are rendered one by one, i.e. you can have only a single page opened at any given time.
A typical use of the APIs to render a PDF looks like this:
 // create a new renderer
 try (PdfRendererPreV renderer = new PdfRendererPreV(getSeekableFileDescriptor(), loadParams)) {
      // let us just render all pages
      final int pageCount = renderer.getPageCount();
      for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++) {
          Page page = renderer.openPage(i);
          RenderParams params = new RenderParams.Builder(Page.RENDER_MODE_FOR_DISPLAY).build();
          // say we render for showing on the screen
          page.render(mBitmap, params, null, null);
          // do stuff with the bitmap
          // close the page
          page.close();
      }
 }
 Print preview and print output
 Please refer to PdfRenderer for fulfilling this usecase.
Summary
| Nested classes | |
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        class | PdfRendererPreV.PageThis class represents a PDF document page for rendering. | 
| Constants | |
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| int | DOCUMENT_LINEARIZED_TYPE_LINEARIZEDRepresents a linearized PDF document. | 
| int | DOCUMENT_LINEARIZED_TYPE_NON_LINEARIZEDRepresents a non-linearized PDF document. | 
| int | PDF_FORM_TYPE_ACRO_FORMRepresents a PDF with form fields specified using the AcroForm spec | 
| int | PDF_FORM_TYPE_NONERepresents a PDF without form fields | 
| int | PDF_FORM_TYPE_XFA_FOREGROUNDRepresents a PDF with form fields specified using the XFAF subset of the XFA spec | 
| int | PDF_FORM_TYPE_XFA_FULLRepresents a PDF with form fields specified using the entire XFA spec | 
| Public constructors | |
|---|---|
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      PdfRendererPreV(ParcelFileDescriptor fileDescriptor)
      Creates a new instance of PdfRendererPreV class. | |
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      PdfRendererPreV(ParcelFileDescriptor fileDescriptor, LoadParams params)
      Creates a new instance of PdfRendererPreV class. | |
| Public methods | |
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        void | 
      close()
      Closes this renderer and destroys any cached instance of the document. | 
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        int | 
      getDocumentLinearizationType()
      Gets the type of the PDF document. | 
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        int | 
      getPageCount()
      Gets the number of pages in the document. | 
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        int | 
      getPdfFormType()
      Returns the form type of the loaded PDF | 
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        PdfRendererPreV.Page | 
      openPage(int index)
      Opens a  | 
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        void | 
      write(ParcelFileDescriptor destination, boolean removePasswordProtection)
      
 Saves the current state of the loaded PDF document to the given writable
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| Protected methods | |
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        void | 
      finalize()
      Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object. | 
| Inherited methods | |
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Constants
DOCUMENT_LINEARIZED_TYPE_LINEARIZED
public static final int DOCUMENT_LINEARIZED_TYPE_LINEARIZED
Represents a linearized PDF document.
Constant Value: 1 (0x00000001)
DOCUMENT_LINEARIZED_TYPE_NON_LINEARIZED
public static final int DOCUMENT_LINEARIZED_TYPE_NON_LINEARIZED
Represents a non-linearized PDF document.
Constant Value: 0 (0x00000000)
PDF_FORM_TYPE_ACRO_FORM
public static final int PDF_FORM_TYPE_ACRO_FORM
Represents a PDF with form fields specified using the AcroForm spec
Constant Value: 1 (0x00000001)
PDF_FORM_TYPE_NONE
public static final int PDF_FORM_TYPE_NONE
Represents a PDF without form fields
Constant Value: 0 (0x00000000)
PDF_FORM_TYPE_XFA_FOREGROUND
public static final int PDF_FORM_TYPE_XFA_FOREGROUND
Represents a PDF with form fields specified using the XFAF subset of the XFA spec
Constant Value: 3 (0x00000003)
PDF_FORM_TYPE_XFA_FULL
public static final int PDF_FORM_TYPE_XFA_FULL
Represents a PDF with form fields specified using the entire XFA spec
Constant Value: 2 (0x00000002)
Public constructors
PdfRendererPreV
public PdfRendererPreV (ParcelFileDescriptor fileDescriptor)
Creates a new instance of PdfRendererPreV class.
Note: The provided file descriptor must be seekable, i.e. its data being randomly accessed, e.g. pointing to a file.
Note: This class takes ownership of the passed in file descriptor and is responsible for closing it when the renderer is closed.
If the file is from an untrusted source it is recommended to run the renderer in a separate, isolated process with minimal permissions to limit the impact of security exploits.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| fileDescriptor | ParcelFileDescriptor: Seekable file descriptor to read from.
 This value cannot benull. | 
| Throws | |
|---|---|
| IOException | If an error occurs while reading the file. | 
| SecurityException | If the file requires a password or the security scheme is not supported by the renderer. | 
| IllegalArgumentException | If the ParcelFileDescriptoris not seekable. | 
| NullPointerException | If the file descriptor is null. | 
PdfRendererPreV
public PdfRendererPreV (ParcelFileDescriptor fileDescriptor, LoadParams params)
Creates a new instance of PdfRendererPreV class.
 Note: The provided file descriptor must be seekable,
 i.e. its data being randomly accessed, e.g. pointing to a file. If the password passed in
 LoadParams is incorrect, the
 PdfRendererPreV will throw a SecurityException.
 
Note: This class takes ownership of the passed in file descriptor and is responsible for closing it when the renderer is closed.
If the file is from an untrusted source it is recommended to run the renderer in a separate, isolated process with minimal permissions to limit the impact of security exploits.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| fileDescriptor | ParcelFileDescriptor: Seekable file descriptor to read from.
 This value cannot benull. | 
| params | LoadParams: Instance ofLoadParamsspecifying params for loading PDF
                       document.
 This value cannot benull. | 
| Throws | |
|---|---|
| IOException | If an error occurs while reading the file. | 
| SecurityException | If the file requires a password or the security scheme is not supported by the renderer. | 
| IllegalArgumentException | If the ParcelFileDescriptoris not seekable. | 
| NullPointerException | If the file descriptor or load params is null. | 
Public methods
close
public void close ()
Closes this renderer and destroys any cached instance of the document. You should not use this instance after this method is called.
| Throws | |
|---|---|
| IllegalStateException | If close()is called before invoking this. | 
getDocumentLinearizationType
public int getDocumentLinearizationType ()
Gets the type of the PDF document.
| Returns | |
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| int | The PDF document type.
 Value is DOCUMENT_LINEARIZED_TYPE_NON_LINEARIZED, orDOCUMENT_LINEARIZED_TYPE_LINEARIZED | 
| Throws | |
|---|---|
| IllegalStateException | If close()is called before invoking this. | 
getPageCount
public int getPageCount ()
Gets the number of pages in the document.
| Returns | |
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| int | The page count. Value is 0 or greater | 
| Throws | |
|---|---|
| IllegalStateException | If close()is called before invoking this. | 
getPdfFormType
public int getPdfFormType ()
Returns the form type of the loaded PDF
| Returns | |
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| int | Value is PDF_FORM_TYPE_NONE,PDF_FORM_TYPE_ACRO_FORM,PDF_FORM_TYPE_XFA_FULL, orPDF_FORM_TYPE_XFA_FOREGROUND | 
| Throws | |
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| IllegalStateException | if the renderer is closed | 
| IllegalArgumentException | if an unexpected PDF form type is returned | 
openPage
public PdfRendererPreV.Page openPage (int index)
Opens a Page for rendering.
| Parameters | |
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| index | int: The page index to open, starting from index 0.
 Value is 0 or greater | 
| Returns | |
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| PdfRendererPreV.Page | A page that can be rendered.
 This value cannot be null. | 
| Throws | |
|---|---|
| IllegalStateException | If close()is called before invoking this. | 
| IllegalArgumentException | If the page number is less than 0 or greater than or equal to the total page count. | 
write
public void write (ParcelFileDescriptor destination, boolean removePasswordProtection)
 Saves the current state of the loaded PDF document to the given writable
 ParcelFileDescriptor. If the document is password-protected then setting
 removePasswordProtection removes the protection before saving. The PDF document
 should already be decrypted with the correct password before writing. Useful for printing or
 sharing.
 Note: This method closes the provided file descriptor.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| destination | ParcelFileDescriptor: The writableParcelFileDescriptorThis value cannot benull. | 
| removePasswordProtection | boolean: If true, removes password protection from the PDF before
                                 saving. | 
| Throws | |
|---|---|
| IOException | If there's a write error, or if 'removePasswordSecurity' is truebut the document remains encrypted. | 
| IllegalStateException | If close()is called before invoking this. | 
Protected methods
finalize
protected void finalize ()
Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection
 determines that there are no more references to the object.
 A subclass overrides the finalize method to dispose of
 system resources or to perform other cleanup.
 
 The general contract of finalize is that it is invoked
 if and when the Java virtual
 machine has determined that there is no longer any
 means by which this object can be accessed by any thread that has
 not yet died, except as a result of an action taken by the
 finalization of some other object or class which is ready to be
 finalized. The finalize method may take any action, including
 making this object available again to other threads; the usual purpose
 of finalize, however, is to perform cleanup actions before
 the object is irrevocably discarded. For example, the finalize method
 for an object that represents an input/output connection might perform
 explicit I/O transactions to break the connection before the object is
 permanently discarded.
 
 The finalize method of class Object performs no
 special action; it simply returns normally. Subclasses of
 Object may override this definition.
 
 The Java programming language does not guarantee which thread will
 invoke the finalize method for any given object. It is
 guaranteed, however, that the thread that invokes finalize will not
 be holding any user-visible synchronization locks when finalize is
 invoked. If an uncaught exception is thrown by the finalize method,
 the exception is ignored and finalization of that object terminates.
 
 After the finalize method has been invoked for an object, no
 further action is taken until the Java virtual machine has again
 determined that there is no longer any means by which this object can
 be accessed by any thread that has not yet died, including possible
 actions by other objects or classes which are ready to be finalized,
 at which point the object may be discarded.
 
 The finalize method is never invoked more than once by a Java
 virtual machine for any given object.
 
 Any exception thrown by the finalize method causes
 the finalization of this object to be halted, but is otherwise
 ignored.
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| Throwable | |
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