iTextSharp creation of a pdf from a list of byte arrays
I've figured it out, just so everbody can have the solution: here it is:
public static byte[] concatAndAddContent(List<byte[]> pdf)
{
byte [] all;
using(MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
Document doc = new Document();
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms);
doc.SetPageSize(PageSize.LETTER);
doc.Open();
PdfContentByte cb = writer.DirectContent;
PdfImportedPage page;
PdfReader reader;
foreach (byte[] p in pdf)
{
reader = new PdfReader(p);
int pages = reader.NumberOfPages;
// loop over document pages
for (int i = 1; i <= pages; i++)
{
doc.SetPageSize(PageSize.LETTER);
doc.NewPage();
page = writer.GetImportedPage(reader, i);
cb.AddTemplate(page, 0, 0);
}
}
doc.Close();
all = ms.GetBuffer();
ms.Flush();
ms.Dispose();
}
return all;
}
Hope that helps!
This works:
used iTextSharp-LGPL 4.1.6:
public static byte[] ConcatenatePdfs(IEnumerable<byte[]> documents)
{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
var outputDocument = new Document();
var writer = new PdfCopy(outputDocument, ms);
outputDocument.Open();
foreach (var doc in documents)
{
var reader = new PdfReader(doc);
for (var i = 1; i <= reader.NumberOfPages; i++)
{
writer.AddPage(writer.GetImportedPage(reader, i));
}
writer.FreeReader(reader);
reader.Close();
}
writer.Close();
outputDocument.Close();
var allPagesContent = ms.GetBuffer();
ms.Flush();
return allPagesContent;
}
}