> My god, you speak PDF! Think I'm going to have to learn to do > likewise.
Correct on both counts: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf Enjoy. > Did you use a tool to 'look into' the PDF to help you diagnose > this? When I look at the PDF in a text editor, everything is > compressed, so I can't see the underlying operators. I did indeed. There are several similar tools available: 1) Acrobat can save a PDF with no compression. Heck, you could write an iText app to do that. 2) RUPS is an iText-based PDF object browser. 3) PDF Can Opener is an Acrobat plugin that is RUPS-like with a bajillion spiffy features. Free 10-day trial, $195. I am in no way affiliated with them, I just happen to know that a tool like that is invaluable. http://www.windjack.com/products/pdfcanopener.html > Feels like I need to poke around in the PDF streams and remove any > rectangles that look like they cover the whole background. Pretty much, yeah. You'll want to check out the org.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser package. I don't know that there are any examples that use it yet. Bruno? --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com import legalese.Disclaimer; Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null; > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Russell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 11:07 PM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Problems with super-imposing one > PDFonanother: White background? > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Mark Storer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Bad news. They are indeed drawing a white box (among other things... > > yuck) on their background. > > > Yuck. Had a horrible feeling this was a white background issue :( > > Can you share any pointers as to how best to tackle this? > > Feels like I need to poke around in the PDF streams and remove any > rectangles that look like they cover the whole background? Given my > current level of skill with PDF etc, that's a heck of a challenge for > me at the moment - can you give me any pointers as to where to start? > In particular, it'd be good to understand which APIs to use to 'crack > open' the relevant content stream in the PDF? I can see that I'd > probably need to get hold of - and then filter - an instance of > PDFStream, but it's not totally clear to me how to find the right > stream in the first place. > > Thanks very much for your help with this... > > > Paul > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: > http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.839 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3009 - Release Date: 07/18/10 > 23:36:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
