Re: [iText-questions] ExportArea - All data content is exported (not just the area)

2009-11-19 Thread Xavier Sudan
Hello, I can use PDFBox to extract text from an area : http://kickjava.com/src/org/pdfbox/examples/util/ExtractTextByArea.java I don't know if it is the desired behavior but it could be nice to mention that the export area take all the content of original document (

[iText-questions] How?: Drawing typographers marks using Registration Black

2009-11-19 Thread George Bilalis
Hi all, I posted few days ago the same question in detail: http://old.nabble.com/Registration-Black-tp16765868p26386868.html I need to know how to define the stroke (ColorSpace and Color) for a registration mark in iText so that it appears on all separated plates (CMYK plus any Spot channel

Re: [iText-questions] How?: Drawing typographers marks using Registration Black

2009-11-19 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
If it is not supported already by iText, it would be quite simple to add to the existing spot color/separation support. Leonard -Original Message- From: George Bilalis [mailto:grg_b...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:42 AM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [iText-questions] ExportArea - All data content is exported (not just the area)

2009-11-19 Thread 1T3XT info
Xavier Sudan wrote: Hello, I can use PDFBox to extract text from an area : http://kickjava.com/src/org/pdfbox/examples/util/ExtractTextByArea.java I don't know if it is the desired behavior but it could be nice to mention that the export area take all the content of original document

Re: [iText-questions] Font size from a text box

2009-11-19 Thread Iliadis Yannis
Hi Mark, I saw that you used the getMerged(0) method to retrieve the dictionary and not the getValue(0). I tried both in an example and got the same result. So my question is, why you choose the first in favor over the second? Yannis Iliadis 2009/11/19 ramachandran...@birlasoft.com Thanks

[iText-questions] Getting the multiline and maxlength of text form field

2009-11-19 Thread ramachandran.sk
Hi , Again a help is required. I am reading the form fields from the PDF using Acrofields. I would like to distinguish between Text and TextArea. I came to know that there is no such thing as textArea its just text field with 'multiline' property set to true. I would like to get the values of

[iText-questions] Question on using PdfEncryptor and PdfStamper together.

2009-11-19 Thread Dave Jarvis
Hi, the below gives the The original document was reused. Read it again from file error because i am using both PdfEncryptor and PdfStamper together (each on its own works fine). How should i do it please ? Do i need to write to a temp file. How please ? byte[] bb = PdfReader

[iText-questions] How to set a default zoom percent to 100%?

2009-11-19 Thread liulei
I check the iText in action book but do not find how to implement this? Olny toolbar, column, etc, things like this can be configured. writer.setViewerPreferences(PdfWriter.PageModeUseOC | PdfWriter.FitWindow); I want to let the pdf reader(Internet explorer) to open the pdf file with

Re: [iText-questions] How can I disallow a line break in special tagged string?

2009-11-19 Thread skuphi
No, it doesn't work. The HtmlWorker removes the nobr tag so it won't be detected in the method IsSplitCharacter. I have no idea how I can accomplish the task. Philipp 1T3XT info wrote: skuphi wrote: Hi, I have a string with html markup, which I process with the HtmlWorker to get

[iText-questions] HTML to Pdf

2009-11-19 Thread Nick Lim
Do anyone know about HTML table with picture as background and convert it to PDF using IText? I tried to convert the following line of HTML to PDF using IText, but the background picture never appears: td background='Images/kad mesra Statement Assets/Pg01/km_statement_p1bar01.jpg' Looking for

[iText-questions] How do I get the position of an image in a PDF file?

2009-11-19 Thread Larry Reeder
I've used the iText Java API to create a PDF with several images. Now I'd like to write a unit test to verify my image placement logic. I used Image.setAbsolutePosition to set the image when I initially created the PDF. Now how do I get the position of that image when I reopen the PDF? I

[iText-questions] Freeing/Releasing font object?

2009-11-19 Thread Roger Misteli
Hiyas When I use a code like this: Set fonts = FontFactory.getRegisteredFonts(); for (Object font : fonts) { com.lowagie.text.Font fontInfo = FontFactory.getFont(font.toString(), BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED); String familyname =

[iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez
I'm using version 2.1.7, with IBM's JDK included in Rational Software Developer, "java -version", says: java version "1.5.0" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build pwi32devifx-20080303 (SR6b + IZ15865)) IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 Windows Vista x86-32

Re: [iText-questions] Question on using PdfEncryptor and PdfStamper together.

2009-11-19 Thread Fabrizio Arosio
The PdfEncryptor.encrypt() method uses PdfStamper internally, and PdfStamper tampers the PdfReader instance, so that it cannot be used by other objects , neither other PdfStampers. If you only need to encrypt a document, I believe the PdfEncryptor class will suffice. Or you could only use the

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
I didn't look at your output files, but most likely that reduction is caused by things such as the fonts no longer being embedded, image resolution being reduced and the like. NOT the application of additional compression features. When you throw things away - it's amazing how small you can

Re: [iText-questions] Font size from a text box

2009-11-19 Thread Mark Storer
Parent fields can pass attributes down to their children, including /DA. The merged dictionary contains all the current values, so I always use that when I'm reading something. For example: In a radio group, getValue(X) will return the parent of the radio group for any valid X, while

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez
That might be one way to focus the problem but, in such case, how can I achive this kind of "compression" benefit programatically? Atentamente, Gonzalo Vsquez Sez Gerente de Proyectos Altiuz | Neox Desarrollo Nueva Tajamar 555 Of. 802 Las Condes - Santiago Fonos 56 (2) 335 2461 / 203 6200

Re: [iText-questions] How to set a default zoom percent to 100%?

2009-11-19 Thread 1T3XT info
liulei wrote: I check the iText in action book but do not find how to implement this? See page 418. Use the two first code lines of the code sample. Adapt the first parameters (page 1 instead of 2, Fit instead of XYZ). -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ -

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Write the complex code necessary to do the same things that they are doing... Its not a single API call - you will need to understand the nuances of the PDF format and then write low level code to process each object of the file and do whatever operations you feel are appropriate. Or you can

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread 1T3XT info
Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez wrote: That might be one way to focus the problem but, in such case, how can I achive this kind of compression benefit programatically? The link to the code sample you've sent doesn't work, and you're trying to do something that should only be done by experts. (The fact

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez
I guess you could be right, the problem is that I'm getting extra huge PDF files out of iText of what is supposed to be a small PDF file, that's why I've just sent the multivalent API link, please see that message. Atentamente, Gonzalo Vsquez Sez Gerente de Proyectos Altiuz | Neox

[iText-questions] Scrambled Punctuation in Right To Left

2009-11-19 Thread tamtam18
I have a document that prints both Hebrew and English on the same page (sometimes even in the same cell). PdfPCell is working really well with one exception -- punctuation marks, such as colons, periods, plus/minus signs that are at the end or beginning of a string print on the wrong side of the

[iText-questions] Conversion from TIFF to PDF

2009-11-19 Thread Rayer, William (RBS Coutts, Jersey)
Dear iText We have been using your conversion library as part of the deployment of a Java web-based system (Pega BPM). During the conversion of some TIFF files to PDF, we have found that if a TIFF file contains the same page repeated twice or more, the conversion process fails. Is it possible

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez
Tha Java API Multivalent (http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/ ) is supposed to do what I need, but I haven't been able to find the docs / JAVADOC withing their site, has anyone experimented with this PDF Handling API (post generation via iText). Atentamente, Gonzalo Vsquez Sez Gerente de

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread 1T3XT info
Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez wrote: I guess you could be right, the problem is that I'm getting extra huge PDF files out of iText It's easy to create huge files with iText if you don't know what you're doing. Go to http://www.manning.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=223_212 and open chapter 2

Re: [iText-questions] Conversion from TIFF to PDF

2009-11-19 Thread thulasi ram
Will Rayer, Can you try following code its work. Inside the For loop u can get all the time new RandomAccessFileOrArray its works. // Loop through all the pages in the TIFF file, convert each to PDF. for (int c = 0; c comps; ++c) { try { * **

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez
Thanks I'm going to read the topic you mentioned, but in out application it may be a bit difficult (if not impossible) to know apriori, if different pages will have repeated images, as the resulting pdf file is a concatenation (via PdfCopy) of different documents, which sometimes have

Re: [iText-questions] Scrambled Punctuation in Right To Left

2009-11-19 Thread Paulo Soares
The punctuation mark is correct but it can look wrong if you don't fully understand RTL, LTR and neutral chars. There's no magic way of knowing if some text is RTL or LTR other that analysing each char and then deciding. A way of doing it is to get the first non neutral char and set the text as

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez
The problem that we have is exactly what is described in te article you pointed me (as matter of fact, I've just also bought online iText in Action, first edition, as waiting 6 months for the second edition won't work for me right now). So: we are having duplicate company logos on the header

[iText-questions] AcroForm with empty Fields array

2009-11-19 Thread Gylfi Ingvason
Gents, I use PdfStamper to flatten forms/free text and then typically perform other operations using either PdfWriter or PdfCopy. This has been working fine until recently when a customer complained that text fields in an AcroForm were missing after flattening the form. Upon investigating, I

Re: [iText-questions] AcroForm with empty Fields array

2009-11-19 Thread Mark Storer
Acrobat 9 Pro's PDF Syntax Check doesn't bat an eye. How very Odd. That makes your get better tools argument that much more difficult. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com #include disclaimer typedef std::DisclaimerCardiff DisCard; -Original Message- From:

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez
Problem solved using PdfSmartCopy instead of PdfCopy, thanks everybody for your tips. Atentamente, Gonzalo Vsquez Sez Gerente de Proyectos Altiuz | Neox Desarrollo Nueva Tajamar 555 Of. 802 Las Condes - Santiago Fonos 56 (2) 335 2461 / 203 6200 IBM Certified Advanced

[iText-questions] How to identify an Adobe Package from a PDF with an attachment?

2009-11-19 Thread Fake Name
Hi, I currently have code that checks whether a given PDF has embedded files: ... PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(byteOutStream.toByteArray()); PdfDictionary names = (PdfDictionary) PdfReader.getPdfObject(reader.getCatalog().get(PdfName.NAMES)); if (names != null) {

Re: [iText-questions] Getting the multiline and maxlength of text formfield

2009-11-19 Thread Mark Storer
You should have a look at the PDF specification, available for free here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf Your questions are answered in section 12.7.4.3, pages 443 444. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com #include disclaimer typedef

Re: [iText-questions] Compression not working?

2009-11-19 Thread 1T3XT info
Gonzalo Vásquez Sáez wrote: as matter of fact, I've just also bought online iText in Action, first edition, as waiting 6 months for the second edition won't work for me right now If you buy the 2nd edition now, you get: - the first edition for free as an ebook (so in fact, you get two books

Re: [iText-questions] Problem with graphics when printing the PDF

2009-11-19 Thread 1T3XT info
Simon, Peter wrote: Now I had some bugs to fix with drawing Graphics2D. Graphics2D means: java.awt classes. To draw that graphics I create a PdfPTable with a PdfPCell. PdfPTable and PdfPCell mean: com.lowagie classes. These classes don't mix. There's something wrong in your story. I’m