That's great! I've got it working well now.

Many thanks for your help.

Regards

Richard

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:30:23 +0100, Paulo Soares wrote:
> Document document = new Document();
> ByteArrayOutputStream ba = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> PdfWriter.getInstance(document, ba);
> ...
> document.close();
> PdfReader cover = new PdfReader(ba.toByetArray());
> 
> Best Regards,
> Paulo Soares
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:02 PM
> > To: Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Concatenating an existing PDF 
> > with a new document in a servlet.
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > Thankyou for your reply. This narrows my problem down to the 
> > fact that I'm not sure how to create a new document as a byte 
> > array. Previously I have used something like:
> >         Document document = new Document()
> >         PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new 
> > FileOutputStream("3.pdf"));
> > ...which (obviously) writes to file.
> > Can you give me an example of creating a document as a byte 
> > array in memory. Apologies if this is trivial - I do not 
> > normally work in java
> > 
> > Many thanks.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:44:46 +0100, Paulo Soares wrote:
> > > Create your cover page in memory. Now you can concatenate 
> > two documents:
> > > one created with PdfReader(byte[]) and the other from 
> > PdfReader(String).
> > > 
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Paulo Soares 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> > > > Behalf Of Richard Corfield
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:00 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: [iText-questions] Concatenating an existing PDF with 
> > > > a new document in a servlet.
> > > > 
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > I am trying to create a cover sheet dynamically to existing 
> > > > PDFs using a servlet.
> > > > All I want to do is put an extra page at the front of the PDF 
> > > > with some simple text and then stream directly to the browser.
> > > > 
> > > > I can concatenate existing files and then print then to the 
> > > > browser. And I can create new documents, but I'm having 
> > > > trouble doing both at once.
> > > > 
> > > > Would it be possible for someone to post a very simple 
> > > > example of this in action?
> > > > 
> > > > Many thanks
> > > > 
> > > > Richard


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