First thing to do is to save the pdf to a file in the server instead of
sending it to browser. If it works it's a problem in the way you sending
it to browser. If it still doesn't work post a link to one of those
files for inspection. Your code looks good.
Paulo
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:50 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] adding several pdfs causes
> problems (broken,corrupt?)
>
> Hello list,
>
> i am using itext to combine several pdfs to one result pdf.
> The pdf generation is done by a service that
> returns a byte stream back to the browser that requested the
> pdf. From here the user can decide to save
> the pdf or to open it right away.
>
> The service looks like:
> ByteArrayOutputStream generatePDF(params)
>
> My problem is that the resulting pdf is corrupt. Some acrobat
> readers cannot open the file, on my
> mac i can open the file with acrobat8 that flashes a pop up
> for a very short period saying "repairing.." or
> something, with the preview mac-application opening the pdf
> is not possible.
>
> The pdf is composed of 5 separate pdfs. One is "dynamic" as
> it fields are filled with values programatically,
> the other parts are static as they exist already and are
> simply "pasted" after the first dynamic one.
>
> This is how the static pdfs are attached to the result pdf
> (outStream):
> void combinePDFs(OutputStream outStream, InputStream ...
> pdfStreams) throws IOException, DocumentException
> {
> PdfCopyFields copy = new PdfCopyFields(outStream);
> for(InputStream in : pdfStreams)
> {
> if(in == null)
> continue;
> PdfReader r = new PdfReader(in);
> copy.addDocument(r);
> }
> copy.close();
> }
>
> I am using itext2.0.5 and jdk1.5. The static source pdfs
> already exist, generated by any kind of software in any version,
> the only thing I know is they are pdfs and can be opened by
> acrobat reader.
>
> I attached the whole class that handles the pdf generation,
> maybe someone can
> see a mistake in using the itext api.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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