How To Install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
on Debian 12.
What is libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
libpdfbox-graphics2d-java is:
Using this library one can use any Graphics2D API based SVG / graph / chart library to embed those graphics as vector drawing in a PDF. In combination with PDFBox PDFRenderer/PageDrawer one can also “rerender” PDF pages and change certain aspects (e.g. change the color mapping and perform an overfill) .
The following features are supported:
- Drawing any shape using draw…() and fill…() methods from Graphics2D.
- Drawing images. The default is to always lossless compress them. One could plugin one’s own Image -> PDImageXObject conversion if one wants to encode the images as jpeg.
- All BasicStroke attributes.
- Paint:
- Color. One can specify one’s own color mapping implementation to special map the (RGB) colors to PDColor. Beside using CMYK colors one can also use spot colors.
- GradientPaint, LinearGradientPaint and RadialGradientPaint. There are some restrictions.
- TexturePaint.
- Drawing text. By default all text is drawn as vector shapes, so no fonts are embedded. RTL languages are supported. It’s possible to use fonts, but this loses some features (especially RTL support) and one must provide the TTF files of the fonts if the default PDF fonts are not enough.
There are three methods to install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
Install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
Install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
How To Uninstall libpdfbox-graphics2d-java on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
Uninstall libpdfbox-graphics2d-java And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
Remove libpdfbox-graphics2d-java Configurations and Data
To remove libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
Remove libpdfbox-graphics2d-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
Dependencies
libpdfbox-graphics2d-java have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.