Subbu,

It seems to me that the problem is that you're attempting to treat
a Microsoft Word .doc file as if it were a text file - which it is not.
I would think that you would have to convert it to some intermediate format
before using itext to produce a .pdf.

I'm fairly new to itext myself, so I'm not familiar with all aspects of it,
but I believe that itext handles rtf to pdf conversion.

If that is so, you could look at OpenOffice as a way to convert .doc to .rtf
Take a look at www.openoffice.org, in particular, look at the OpenOffice
api.

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>Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 05:20:42 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Mallela Siva Subrahmanyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [iText-questions] How to Convert ".doc" to ".pdf"
>
>Hi,
>
>I am using the PDFWriter and Document classes of
>iText.jar file and trying to convert a ".doc" file to
>".pdf" format. I am able to fetch the data and put it
>into a pdf file. But the ".doc" data being read
>contains some formatting information that is being
>appended to the content, in the beginnning and at the
>end.
>How to get rid of that code content in the PDF file
>through java code?
>I am trying this out as a stand alone API, which takes
>the "Document File Name" as command line argument.
>
>I could successfully convert a ".txt" file into
>".pdf".
>
>Also, can I insert a GIF into this PDF(just created)
>in a page that contains a particular text String ?
>
>Please send me the code piece, as I badly need that.
>
>Attaching a copy of the code that I am currently
>using.
>Regards,
>Subbu
>



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