You are best to supply PdfWriter with the Response.OutputStream anyway, otherwise you need to buffer the entire PDF in memory.
Why do you want to do this? On Dec 29, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Daniel Essin wrote: > It's not different English, it's just a snapshot into the evolving > state > of my confusion. > > My original post was confused because I was confused. I was reading a > hex dump of the stream buffer and I did 2 things that were both wrong: > - I misinterpreted the first character in the buffer as a 7 instead of > what it was, a % > - I assumed that the buffer was reaching acrobat via the web page > which > it is apparently not. > > Since then I have tried every permutation that I can think of and > ended > up thus - I can generate and send a page by supplying PdfWriter > with the > Response.OutputStream, I can write a valid pdf file by supplying > PdfWriter with an open FileStream but if I try to supply PdfWriter > with > a MemoryStream and then try to feed the MemoryStream to the > HttpResponse > object I get 0 bytes transmitted but since the response nas the > ContentType set to "application/pdf", Acrobat generates an error > message > upon being invoked with no bytes in the stream. > > I don't know why, and I don't know how to fix it. That's why I have > been > pestering this thread. > > I appreciate your taking the time to respond. > > Any bright ideas or correction of my limited understanding of this > subject would be greatly appreciated, > Dan > > robert engels wrote: >> We must be using different english... >> >> On Dec 29, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Daniel Essin wrote: >> >>>>>>> OK let me start over again. I was reading the dump incorrectly >>>>>>> >>>>>>> and the >>>>>>> >>>>>>> first byte is a % >>>>>>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to >> share your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn >> cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php? >> page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> iText-questions mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
