Appreciate the quick response.  Is there any option within iText to flatten
the PDF file.  These are simple view and print PDF's only.

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paulo
Soares
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 3:33 AM
To: Bill Sanders; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [iText-questions] PDF Flattening

That's life. If you have opacity the page has to be flattened before
printing. It's not an iText thing, any PDF with opacity behaves the same
way. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill 
> Sanders
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 6:01 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] PDF Flattening
> 
> I've written this application using Jython to take multiple TIFF's in 
> a source directory and create a PDF document and then apply a TIFF as 
> a watermark.
> 
> The assembled PDF looks fine within Acrobat Pro, but when printing 
> from Acrobat under Windows to a file, the message "Flattening"
> apears and causes
> the whole print process to crawl.  If I remove the setFillOpacity(.5), 
> the TIFF being applied as a watermark overlays the page, which is 
> expected and the printing message "Flattening" does not appear and the 
> job RIP's to PostScript very quickly.
> 
> The source PDF with the concatenated TIFF's prints fine also without 
> the overlay.  This problem only appears when using the setFillOpacity 
> method.
> 
> Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> <Jython code>
>       iTotalPages = reader.getNumberOfPages()
>       
>       # Creation of a document-object
>       document = Document(PageSize.LETTER, 0, 0, 0, 0)
>       writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
> FileOutputStream(strPdfTemp))
>       
>       document.open()
>       gs1 = PdfGState()
>                       
>       # Set the opacity to 50
>       gs1.setFillOpacity(0.5)
>               
>       for i in range(iTotalPages):
>               cb = writer.getDirectContent()                  
>               cb.setGState(gs1)
>               cb.addImage(watermark)
>                       
>               page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, i+1)
>                       
>               cb.addTemplate(page, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0)
>                       
>               document.newPage()
>       document.close()
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill Sanders
> NearStar, Inc.
> www.nearstar.com
> Office: (972) 355-2236 x206
> NearStar Technical Support: (972) 355-2236 x202
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Paulo Soares
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:04 AM
> To: Franck JACOB; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] font file .lst
> 
> You need files that end in .pfb, .ttf or .otf. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Franck JACOB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:01 PM
> > To: Paulo Soares; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] font file .lst
> > 
> > 
> > yes, but font files associated with this list doesn't work...
> > 
> > 
> > FontFactory.register("/fonts/GOTHIC.TTF");
> > Font font = FontFactory.getFont("Century Gothic", BaseFont.CP1252, 
> > BaseFont.EMBEDDED, 12);
> > --> ok
> > 
> > 
> > FontFactory.register("/fonts/Eurostile/._Eurostile");
> > Font font = FontFactory.getFont("Eurostile", BaseFont.CP1252, 
> > BaseFont.EMBEDDED, 12);
> > --> not ok
> > 
> > Eurostile is in the Acrobat list 'AdobeFnt.lst'
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Le Jeudi 02 Juin 2005 16:44, Paulo Soares a �crit :
> > > That's a list of Acrobat fonts, not a font.
> > >
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> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have to embed font in my pdf, I have a font file named 
> > > > 'AdobeFnt.lst' ;
> > > >
> > > > is this file format supported by iText ?
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