I can't open itext.pdf in Acrobat 5.0 although I can do it in 4.0. The jpg
image in both is not the same. Send me all the files required to build the
pdf (and the code). By the way, if you use a CCITT image or transparency you
need postscript level 3 to print it.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Ellson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 17:54
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [iText-questions] HELP!! PDF/PS printing experts needed!!
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have been working on a printing issue for a while. I currently use
> iText to convert scanned .tiff documents to PDFs for a large paperless
> application here at Sun. The problem that I have encountered is that
> the PDF that iText created from tiffs are not printable, I get a
> typecheck-restore error. I have tried from many versions of Acrobat,
> and even tried with Ghostscript. If I use Ghostscript to convert the
> PDF's to PS the postscript will not print however, if I use ghostscript
> to "convert" a pdf to a pdf using the following command:
>
> gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=./itext-gs.pdf
> ./itext.pdf
>
> the PDF becomes printable from Acroread or Ghostscript. I have looked
> at the contents of the two PDFs and don't see any significant
> differences. The encoding is the same..
>
> I have attached example PDFs, one that doesn't print - itext.pdf
> (created from iText) and the same PDF after the ghostscript command has
> been run on it and it is printable - itext-gs.pdf. If someone can take
> a look at these and give me an idea where to start or if it is a
> limitation of iText, please let me know as I have about 9000 documents a
> day that go through this process and need to fix it soon before I have
> to run the gs command on hundreds of thousands of PDFs.
>
> Thank you!!
> Jared
>
> Also, here is the code that converts the tiffs to PDFs:
>
> public boolean tiffToPdf(String theTiffFile, String theOutFile)
> {
> Document document = null;
>
> try {
> // creation of the different writers
>
> File file = new File(theTiffFile);
> SeekableStream s = new FileSeekableStream(file);
> TIFFDirectory dir = new TIFFDirectory(s, 0);
> long IFDOffset = dir.getIFDOffset();
> Watermark watermark = null;
> PdfWriter writer = null;
> PdfContentByte cb = null;
>
>
> while (IFDOffset != 0L) {
> dir = new TIFFDirectory(s, IFDOffset, 0);
> IFDOffset = dir.getNextIFDOffset();
> long h =
> dir.getFieldAsLong(TIFFImageDecoder.TIFF_IMAGE_LENGTH);
> long w =
> dir.getFieldAsLong(TIFFImageDecoder.TIFF_IMAGE_WIDTH);
>
> if (document == null)
> {
> if((int)w > 1800)
> {
> watermark = new
> Watermark(Image.getInstance(ConverterProperties.WATERMARKLOC),0,-150);
> document = new Document(PageSize.A4.rotate(), 50,
> 50, 50, 50);
> }
> else
> {
> watermark = new
> Watermark(Image.getInstance(ConverterProperties.WATERMARKLOC),0,0);
> document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50,
> 50);
> }
> writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
> FileOutputStream(theOutFile));
> cb = writer.getDirectContent();
> document.add(watermark);
>
> document.open();
> }
> else
> {
> if((int)w > 1700)
> {
> document.setPageSize(PageSize.A4.rotate());
> }
> else
> {
> document.setPageSize(PageSize.A4);
> }
> }
> long offset =
> dir.getFieldAsLong(TIFFImageDecoder.TIFF_STRIP_OFFSETS);
> long size =
> dir.getFieldAsLong(TIFFImageDecoder.TIFF_STRIP_BYTE_COUNTS);
> boolean reverse = false;
> if (dir.isTagPresent(TIFFImageDecoder.TIFF_FILL_ORDER))
> reverse =
> (dir.getFieldAsLong(TIFFImageDecoder.TIFF_FILL_ORDER) == 2L);
> int compression =
> (int)dir.getFieldAsLong(TIFFImageDecoder.TIFF_COMPRESSION);
> switch (compression) {
> case TIFFImage.COMP_FAX_G3_1D:
> compression = Image.CCITTG3_1D;
> break;
> case TIFFImage.COMP_FAX_G3_2D:
> compression = Image.CCITTG3_1D;
> if
> (dir.isTagPresent(TIFFImageDecoder.TIFF_T4_OPTIONS)) {
> if
> (((int)dir.getFieldAsLong(TIFFImageDecoder.TIFF_T4_OPTIONS) & 1) != 0)
> compression = Image.CCITTG3_2D;
> }
> break;
> case TIFFImage.COMP_FAX_G4_2D:
> compression = Image.CCITTG4;
> break;
> default:
> throw new Exception("Compression type " +
> compression + " not supported");
> }
> byte im[] = new byte[(int)size];
> s.seek(offset);
> s.readFully(im);
> Image img = Image.getInstance((int)w, (int)h, reverse,
> compression, 0, im);
>
> img.scalePercent(72f / 200f * 100);
> img.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
>
>
>
>
> cb.addImage(img);
>
>
> document.newPage();
> }
> document.close();
> return true;
> }
> catch (Exception de) {
> de.printStackTrace();
> createErrorPDF(theTiffFile, theOutFile);
> return false;
> }
>
>
>
>
>
>
> } << File: itext-gs.pdf >> << File: itext.pdf >>
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