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Insert an image into a PDF in Ruby

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Sample Ruby code to use PDFTron SDK for programmatically inserting various raster image formats (e.g. TIFF, JPEG, JPEG2000, JBIG2, GIF, PNG, BMP, etc.) into a PDF document. Learn more about our Ruby PDF Library and PDF Editing & Manipulation Library.

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#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 2001-2023 by Apryse Software Inc. All Rights Reserved.
# Consult LICENSE.txt regarding license information.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

require '../../../PDFNetC/Lib/PDFNetRuby'
include PDFNetRuby
require '../../LicenseKey/RUBY/LicenseKey'

$stdout.sync = true

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This sample illustrates how to embed various raster image formats
# (e.g. TIFF, JPEG, JPEG2000, JBIG2, GIF, PNG, BMP, etc.) in a PDF document.
#
# Note: On Windows platform this sample utilizes GDI+ and requires GDIPLUS.DLL to
# be present in the system path.
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

	PDFNet.Initialize(PDFTronLicense.Key)
    
	# Relative path to the folder containing test files.
	input_path = "../../TestFiles/"
	output_path = "../../TestFiles/Output/"

	doc = PDFDoc.new()
	f = ElementBuilder.new()            # Used to build new Element objects
	writer = ElementWriter.new()        # Used to write Elements to the page

	page = doc.PageCreate()         # Start a new page
	writer.Begin(page)              # Begin writing to this page

	# ----------------------------------------------------------
	# Add JPEG image to the output file
	img = Image.Create(doc.GetSDFDoc(), input_path + "peppers.jpg")
	element = f.CreateImage(img, 50, 500, img.GetImageWidth()/2, img.GetImageHeight()/2)
	writer.WritePlacedElement(element)
    
	# ----------------------------------------------------------
	# Add a PNG image to the output file    
	img = Image.Create(doc.GetSDFDoc(), input_path + "butterfly.png")
	element = f.CreateImage(img, Matrix2D.new(100, 0, 0, 100, 300, 500))
	writer.WritePlacedElement(element)
    
	# ----------------------------------------------------------
	# Add a GIF image to the output file (This section is not supported on Linux)
	img = Image.Create(doc.GetSDFDoc(), input_path + "pdfnet.gif")
	element = f.CreateImage(img, Matrix2D.new(img.GetImageWidth(), 0, 0, img.GetImageHeight(), 50, 350))
	writer.WritePlacedElement(element)
    
	# ----------------------------------------------------------
	# Add a TIFF image to the output file
    
	img = Image.Create(doc.GetSDFDoc(), (input_path + "grayscale.tif"))
	element = f.CreateImage(img, Matrix2D.new(img.GetImageWidth(), 0, 0, img.GetImageHeight(), 10, 50))
	writer.WritePlacedElement(element)
    
	writer.End()                # Save the page
	doc.PagePushBack(page)      # Add the page to the document page sequence

	# ----------------------------------------------------------
	# Embed a monochrome TIFF. Compress the image using lossy JBIG2 filter.

	page = doc.PageCreate(Rect.new(0, 0, 612, 794))
	writer.Begin(page)          # begin writing to this page

	# Note: encoder hints can be used to select between different compression methods. 
	# For example to instruct PDFNet to compress a monochrome image using JBIG2 compression.
	hint_set = ObjSet.new();
	enc = hint_set.CreateArray();  # Initilaize encoder 'hint' parameter 
	enc.PushBackName("JBIG2");
	enc.PushBackName("Lossy");

	img = Image.Create(doc.GetSDFDoc(), input_path + "multipage.tif");
	element = f.CreateImage(img, Matrix2D.new(612, 0, 0, 794, 0, 0));
	writer.WritePlacedElement(element);

	writer.End()                   # Save the page
	doc.PagePushBack(page)         # Add the page to the document page sequence
    
	# ----------------------------------------------------------
	# Add a JPEG2000 (JP2) image to the output file
    
	# Create a new page
	page = doc.PageCreate()
	writer.Begin(page)             # Begin writing to the page
    
	# Embed the image
	img = Image.Create(doc.GetSDFDoc(), input_path + "palm.jp2")
    
	# Position the image on the page
	element = f.CreateImage(img, Matrix2D.new(img.GetImageWidth(), 0, 0, img.GetImageHeight(), 96, 80))
	writer.WritePlacedElement(element)
    
	# Write 'JPEG2000 Sample' text string under the image
	writer.WriteElement(f.CreateTextBegin(Font.Create(doc.GetSDFDoc(), Font::E_times_roman), 32))
	element = f.CreateTextRun("JPEG2000 Sample")
	element.SetTextMatrix(1, 0, 0, 1, 190, 30)
	writer.WriteElement(element)
	writer.WriteElement(f.CreateTextEnd())
    
	writer.End()                    # Finish writing to the page
	doc.PagePushBack(page)

	doc.Save((output_path + "addimage.pdf"), SDFDoc::E_linearized);
	doc.Close()
	PDFNet.Terminate
	puts "Done. Result saved in addimage.pdf..."