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----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Nolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:33 PM Subject: [iText-questions] Question relating to appending a PDF using iText > Hi, Is it possible to open a PDF document and append some text (or update > field) to the original PDF document. I see that there is loads of examples > of writing new PDF document using PdfWriter and adding a document using a > new Paragraph object. > > > I have tried to use; > > PdfWriter.getInstance(document, > new FileOutputStream("HelloWorld.pdf", true)); > > using the append option in FileOutputStream (ie. append ) > > *FileOutputStream<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/FileOutputStream.html#FileOutputStream%28java.io.File,%20boolean%29> > *(File <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html> file, > boolean append) > > but the api seems to ignore this. > > I know I could create another pdf and then delete the previous one, and > then > rename the new one to the original file name but this will take some time > which I'm not sure I will have in very big PDF documents. > > Any help will be appreciated, > Thanks Karl > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
