Weird problem solved ... actually was not iText the problem. It looked like but was the way in which I was streaming out the temp file after creating the PDF - in other words my stupidity :)
BTW .. any idea if iText will ever support PDF linearization ? That will be a very useful feature especially for cases like this when you generate the PDF on the fly from a servlet. And many thanks to Bruno and all .. This lib rocks. I am generating monster PDF's with it - over 10K pages - only text but still it works like a charm ... unless you don't do a beginner mistake as I did today and not observe the thing :) .. At least I have an excuse .. was Monday :) Calin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Morar, Calin (IT) Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 4:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [iText-questions] Incomplete PDF Hello all, I am experiencing a very weird behavior when I am creating a PDF document using iText 1.4 (latest release). I use the API in a servlet to generate PDF on the fly with very good results but now I've hit a problem which is driving me nuts - I write the PDF directly in the servlet output stream the PDF is created OK with no problems (all content is present) if I write the same PDF (using the same exact code) but in a FileOutputStream the last pages of the PDF get created with size 0x0 points ( I mean a very tiny page) and no content while the beginning of the PDF is OK up to a certain page. Even more odd I have this showing up in PDF's that are generating 60+ pages while some PDF's with over 1K pages are OK. I posted bellow the code in both cases: 1) Using the servlet output stream Document doc = new Document(PageSize.LETTER, ...margins ...); PDFWriter writer = PDFWriter.getInstance(doc, response.getOutputStream()); doc.open() .. add PDF content here ... doc.close(); writer.flush() writer.close() 2) Using file output stream Document doc = new Document(PageSize.LETTER, ...margins ...); FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("/file/name/file.pdf") PDFWriter writer = PDFWriter.getInstance(doc, fos); doc.open() .. add PDF content here ... doc.close(); writer.flush() writer.close() Like I said version 2) seems to not write the last pages in the file. >From whet I've seen in the code and in docs the Document.close() method forces writing/flushing of the PDF content in the output stream. I tried all kind of things even delays (Thread.sleep() :) ) before Flush and close. No matter what I do the last pages are all created but they have 0x0 points and no content, and I am sure 100% the pages/content are being added because it works when I user the servlet output stream and I have tons of logging to catch where the problem appears. Any ideas are welcome. Thanks Calin -------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions -------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
