How to Create PDF Document from an Image inside Android Applications

This technical tip shows how developers can create a PDF document from an image
using Aspose.Words inside their Android application. The Image class in Aspose.Pdf
makes it possible to convert an image from various sources into PDF format. This
may include an image from particular location over the hard-drive, an image from
MemoryStream or an image at a web location. The ImageInfo class has a method named
setMemoryData() which is used to specify MemoryStream as the image source. When the
size of image is bigger than max allowed size of MS Word page, an exception is
thrown or image is not visible in output document. The measurement for images must
be between 0 and 55.88 cm (55.88 cm = 1584 points).

package ImageToPdf;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import javax.imageio.ImageReader;

import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import java.io.File;

import java.net.URI;

import com.aspose.words.Document;

import com.aspose.words.DocumentBuilder;

import com.aspose.words.BreakType;

import com.aspose.words.PageSetup;

import com.aspose.words.ConvertUtil;

import com.aspose.words.RelativeHorizontalPosition;

import com.aspose.words.RelativeVerticalPosition;

import com.aspose.words.WrapType;

class Program

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception

{
 // Sample infrastructure.

URI exeDir = Program.class.getResource("").toURI();

String dataDir = new File(exeDir.resolve("../../Data")) + File.separator;

convertImageToPdf(dataDir + "Test.jpg", dataDir + "TestJpg Out.pdf");

convertImageToPdf(dataDir + "Test.png", dataDir + "TestPng Out.pdf");

convertImageToPdf(dataDir + "Test.bmp", dataDir + "TestBmp Out.pdf");

convertImageToPdf(dataDir + "Test.gif", dataDir + "TestGif Out.pdf");

/**

* Converts an image to PDF using Aspose.Words for Java.

* @param inputFileName File name of input image file.

* @param outputFileName Output PDF file name.

*/

public static void convertImageToPdf(String inputFileName, String

outputFileName) throws Exception

// Create Aspose.Words.Document and DocumentBuilder.

// The builder makes it simple to add content to the document.

Document doc = new Document();

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

// Load images from the disk using the approriate reader.

// The file formats that can be loaded depends on the image readers
available on the machine.

ImageInputStream iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(new

File(inputFileName));

ImageReader reader = ImageIO.getImageReaders(iis).next();

reader.setInput(iis, false);
 try

// Get the number of frames in the image.

int framesCount = reader.getNumImages(true);

// Loop through all frames.

for (int frameIdx = 0; frameIdx < framesCount; frameIdx++)

// Insert a section break before each new page, in case of a multi-

frame image.

if (frameIdx != 0)

builder.insertBreak(BreakType.SECTION_BREAK_NEW_PAGE);

// Select active frame.

BufferedImage image = reader.read(frameIdx);

// We want the size of the page to be the same as the size of the
image.

// Convert pixels to points to size the page to the actual image

size.

PageSetup ps = builder.getPageSetup();

ps.setPageWidth(ConvertUtil.pixelToPoint(image.getWidth()));

ps.setPageHeight(ConvertUtil.pixelToPoint(image.getHeight()));

// Insert the image into the document and position it at the top
left corner of the page.

builder.insertImage(

image,

RelativeHorizontalPosition.PAGE,

0,
 RelativeVerticalPosition.PAGE,

0,

ps.getPageWidth(),

ps.getPageHeight(),

WrapType.NONE);

finally {

if (iis != null) {

iis.close();

reader.dispose();

// Save the document to PDF.

doc.save(outputFileName);

//Converts large size image into a PDF document

//When the size of image is bigger than max allowed size of MS Word page, an
exception is thrown or image is not visible in output document. The measurement for
images must be between 0 and 55.88 cm (55.88 cm = 1584 points). In this case, use
the following code example.

package ImageToPdf;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import javax.imageio.ImageReader;

import javax.imageio.stream.ImageInputStream;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import java.io.File;

import java.net.URI;

import com.aspose.words.Document;

import com.aspose.words.DocumentBuilder;

import com.aspose.words.BreakType;

import com.aspose.words.PageSetup;

import com.aspose.words.ConvertUtil;

import com.aspose.words.RelativeHorizontalPosition;

import com.aspose.words.RelativeVerticalPosition;

import com.aspose.words.WrapType;

class Program

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception

// Sample infrastructure.

URI exeDir = Program.class.getResource("").toURI();

String dataDir = new File(exeDir.resolve("../../Data")) + File.separator;

convertImageToPdf(dataDir + "Test.jpg", dataDir + "TestJpg Out.pdf");

convertImageToPdf(dataDir + "Test.png", dataDir + "TestPng Out.pdf");

convertImageToPdf(dataDir + "Test.bmp", dataDir + "TestBmp Out.pdf");

convertImageToPdf(dataDir + "Test.gif", dataDir + "TestGif Out.pdf");

/**
 * Converts an image to PDF using Aspose.Words for Java.

* @param inputFileName File name of input image file.

* @param outputFileName Output PDF file name.

*/

public static void convertImageToPdf(String inputFileName, String

outputFileName) throws Exception

// Create Aspose.Words.Document and DocumentBuilder.

// The builder makes it simple to add content to the document.

Document doc = new Document();

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

// Load images from the disk using the approriate reader.

// The file formats that can be loaded depends on the image readers
available on the machine.

ImageInputStream iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(new

File(inputFileName));

ImageReader reader = ImageIO.getImageReaders(iis).next();

reader.setInput(iis, false);

try

// Get the number of frames in the image.

int framesCount = reader.getNumImages(true);

// Loop through all frames.

for (int frameIdx = 0; frameIdx < framesCount; frameIdx++)

// Insert a section break before each new page, in case of a

multi-frame image.

if (frameIdx != 0)
 builder.insertBreak(BreakType.SECTION_BREAK_NEW_PAGE);

// Select active frame.

BufferedImage image = reader.read(frameIdx);

// Max page size

double maxPageHeight = 1584;

double maxPageWidth = 1584;

double currentImageHeight =
ConvertUtil.pixelToPoint(image.getHeight());

double currentImageWidth =
ConvertUtil.pixelToPoint(image.getWidth());

if (currentImageWidth >= maxPageWidth || currentImageHeight >=

maxPageHeight)

// Get max image size.

double[] size = CalculateImageSize(image, maxPageHeight,

maxPageWidth, currentImageHeight, currentImageWidth);

currentImageWidth = size[0];

currentImageHeight = size[1];

// We want the size of the page to be the same as the size of the
image.

// Convert pixels to points to size the page to the actual image

size.

PageSetup ps = builder.getPageSetup();

ps.setPageWidth(currentImageWidth);
 ps.setPageHeight(currentImageHeight);

// Insert the image into the document and position it at the top
left corner of the page.

Shape shape = builder.insertImage(

image,

RelativeHorizontalPosition.PAGE,

0,

RelativeVerticalPosition.PAGE,

0,

ps.getPageWidth(),

ps.getPageHeight(),

WrapType.NONE);

resizeLargeImage(shape);

finally {

if (iis != null) {

iis.close();

reader.dispose();

// Save the document to PDF.

doc.save(outputFileName);

public static double[] CalculateImageSize(BufferedImage img, double

containerHeight, double containerWidth, double targetHeight, double targetWidth)
throws Exception {

targetHeight = containerHeight;

targetWidth = containerWidth;

//Get size of an image

double imgHeight = ConvertUtil.pixelToPoint(img.getHeight());

double imgWidth = ConvertUtil.pixelToPoint(img.getWidth());

if (imgHeight < targetHeight && imgWidth < targetWidth)

targetHeight = imgHeight;

targetWidth = imgWidth;

else

//Calculate size of an image in the document

double ratioWidth = imgWidth / targetWidth;

double ratioHeight = imgHeight / targetHeight;

if (ratioWidth > ratioHeight)

targetHeight = (targetHeight * (ratioHeight / ratioWidth));

else

targetWidth = (targetWidth * (ratioWidth / ratioHeight));

double[] size = new double[2];

size[0] = targetWidth; //width

size[1] = targetHeight; //height

 return(size);

public static void resizeLargeImage(Shape image) throws Exception

// Return if this shape is not an image.

if (!image.hasImage())

return;

// Calculate the free space based on an inline or floating image. If inline

we must take the page margins into account.

PageSetup ps =
image.getParentParagraph().getParentSection().getPageSetup();

double freePageWidth = image.isInline() ? ps.getPageWidth() -

ps.getLeftMargin() - ps.getRightMargin() : ps.getPageWidth();

double freePageHeight = image.isInline() ? ps.getPageHeight() -

ps.getTopMargin() - ps.getBottomMargin() : ps.getPageHeight();

// Is one of the sides of this image too big for the page?

ImageSize size = image.getImageData().getImageSize();

boolean exceedsMaxPageSize = size.getWidthPoints() > freePageWidth ||

size.getHeightPoints() > freePageHeight;

if (exceedsMaxPageSize)

// Calculate the ratio to fit the page size based on which side is
longer.

boolean widthLonger = (size.getWidthPoints() > size.getHeightPoints());

double ratio = widthLonger ? freePageWidth / size.getWidthPoints() :

freePageHeight / size.getHeightPoints();

// Set the new size.

image.setWidth(size.getWidthPoints() * ratio);
 image.setHeight(size.getHeightPoints() * ratio);