Re: [iText-questions] Search & replace in iText

2010-07-05 Thread Cameron Laird
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Lu, Tao (MOH) wrote: > Hi, Guys, > > I have an existing PDF doc, I need to replace all occurrence of "USA" to > "CANADA". Any idea how to do that in iText? > ... No. That is, although many newcomers to iText imagine that a task such as you describe is likely a g

Re: [iText-questions] Insert text at bookmark

2010-06-25 Thread Cameron Laird
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:12 AM, jpcoder wrote: > > Is it possible with iText to find a bookmark in an existing PDF document, > insert text at that bookmark and then save out the modified PDF? If so, > can > I get a code snippet? > > >... > No. Well, yes and no. Yes, but it's very unlikel

Re: [iText-questions] SVG Salamander does not support "data" URI schemein SVG images?

2010-06-24 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Mark Storer wrote: > The "spam" is just our idiot firewall jumping to incorrect conclusions. > > As for an SVG mailing list... > > http://tinyurl.com/24mqb9a > > It was trivially easy to find. > ... I have a feeling that you, Mark, see different results t

Re: [iText-questions] Query regarding feasibility

2010-06-22 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Mark Storer wrote: > In theory, yeah. In practice? Ouch. > >... > > If you can limit your PDF inputs (say they're all coming from the same > program), then you can safely ignore the OCR stuff. This'll cover a > good 80-90% of the random PDFs out there in th

Re: [iText-questions] MS Word to PDF (2)

2010-06-22 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:37 AM, OmegaZiv wrote: > > Excellent answer. Exactly what I was looking for. Kudos. > > Unfortunately, my manager refuses to move to Open Office. No. Only Word. > MS Word is missing the functionality of "Create PDF Form", existing in OO. > Word only publish to PDF, witho

Re: [iText-questions] MS Word to PDF (2)

2010-06-21 Thread Cameron Laird
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:12 AM, OmegaZiv wrote: > > Hi, > The latest message of this topic was from 2007. I hope there is new > information. > I was given a task to: > 1) create a document template with dynamic fields, using a high-level > editor, such as Word > 2) Convert that template to PDF (

Re: [iText-questions] MalformedByteSequenceException

2010-06-12 Thread Cameron Laird
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Mike Marchywka wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > > From: kishore.chitt...@tcs.com > > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:30:36 +0530 > > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] MalformedByteSequenceException > >

Re: [iText-questions] MalformedByteSequenceException

2010-06-12 Thread Cameron Laird
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Cameron Laird wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Mike Marchywka wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.n

Re: [iText-questions] iText Read Chuncks of PDF into java

2010-05-30 Thread Cameron Laird
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 8:57 AM, crimeunit wrote: > > Thx both of you for replying on my answer. > > What I can show you all is the both (I tried with debugging on PDFOne > library [as in the picture]) > ..but I want to do it with the iText library!!! but I don't can take out > the > names of the

Re: [iText-questions] Question about converting HTML to PDF

2010-05-26 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Mike Marchywka wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 18:30:42 +0300 > > From: dhryvas...@serena.com > > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [iText-questions] Question about converting HTML to PD

Re: [iText-questions] Create a PDF from submission of a web form?

2010-05-25 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Brandon Kaminsky wrote: > I didn’t want to bore the thread with our intended solution but if it > will help set the context that you need to be able to answer to the question > then here you are: > > > > 1.)We are serving a web form to students who may or may not

Re: [iText-questions] iText - nameddest over specified content

2010-05-23 Thread Cameron Laird
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:28 AM, 1T3XT BVBA wrote: > On 05/22/2010 05:05 PM, noemie wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to add content to an existing pdf file in order to be able to > open > > it with the 'nameddest' option. > > > > For example, I have a string in my document, let say "Note" and

Re: [iText-questions] iText-questions Digest, Vol 48, Issue 66

2010-05-21 Thread Cameron Laird
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Victor Badic wrote: > Thank you guys! > > You have been helpful. It's now clearer what my approach should be. > >... > Victor, a particularly meaningful way to show thanks might be to report back on your implementation, once you're successful, so that others m

Re: [iText-questions] text searching + opening a document directly to the search result location

2010-05-20 Thread Cameron Laird
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mike Marchywka wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 05:27:32 -0700 > > From: victor_ba...@yahoo.com > > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] text searching + opening a docu

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple PDF documents

2010-05-19 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Gabe Calabro wrote: > I am trying to create a PDF that merges a PDF with multiple instances. > > Basically, I would like to do this in memory, and iterate thru a list of > people. I would like to populate the PDF for each unique person and merge > them into one

Re: [iText-questions] Iterate through existing bookmarks in a PDF doc using iTextSharp with .Net

2010-05-19 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:12 PM, hLalit wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an existing pdf doc. I want to iterate through existing bookamarks > in > the pdf doc & collapse the bookmark where there is a parent child relation. > For e.g > > -1.0 > - 1.1 > - 1.1.1 > - 1.1.2 > - 1.2 >- 1.2.1 >

Re: [iText-questions] text searching + opening a document directly to the search result location

2010-05-19 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Mike Marchywka wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 04:30:48 -0700 > > From: victor_ba...@yahoo.com > > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [iText-questions] text searching + opening a document

Re: [iText-questions] iText Read Chuncks of PDF into java

2010-05-19 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:52 AM, 1T3XT info wrote: > crimeunit wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Does somebody else know maybe that I can use another library where I can > > specially read out the links of content (to another pdf file) into a pdf? > > Reading out the "links" is a completely different

Re: [iText-questions] URGENT - iText - Print Total Number of pages at Runtime in PDF File

2010-05-19 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:23 AM, 1T3XT info wrote: > Viswanathan Puthucode Mahadevan wrote: > > Question : When opening the PDF file in Adobe Reader, how to get the > > 'Page n of m', because when generating the PDF file, it is not possible > > to know the Total number. > > There are two ways to

Re: [iText-questions] To go to a particular page in PDF

2010-05-04 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:32 AM, SRI!0! wrote: > > Hi, >I have a small problem. Iam having a PDF sitting on the file system. I > need to read the this file and I get the page number from some other > source. > Now depending on the page number I need to stream the file and go to that > particul

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-23 Thread Cameron Laird
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:45 PM, David Hoffer wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I feel your pain, I am in similar situation. The commercial side of > the licensing is geared for very big projects only, nothing small. I > had no choice but to use 2.x and FOP will be next if I need more. > Again I don't n

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-22 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Paulo Soares wrote: > If you're using it in an intranet you don't have to do anything. If > you're exposing the service to the exterior either you provide the source > code of your application or you buy a commercial license. > >... > What does "intranet" m

Re: [iText-questions] Send PDF to printer without Acrobat

2010-04-17 Thread Cameron Laird
ntel-sw-dev > ___ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > Check the site with examp

Re: [iText-questions] Extracting a page as an Image

2010-02-26 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Mike Marchywka wrote: > > > > Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:31:51 +0100 > > From: jmr...@gmail.com > > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Extracting a page as an Image > > > > Hello, > > > > I d

Re: [iText-questions] Conversion of Excel !

2010-02-05 Thread Cameron Laird
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Ashwath Krishna < ashwath.krishna.iyen...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Exactly !! That IS my requirement. I want an exact photocopy of my excel in > a > pdf file. Regardless of what data i have in my Excel. > > And by the way , i would like to do it using iText . The rea

Re: [iText-questions] Conversion of Excel !

2010-02-04 Thread Cameron Laird
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Ashwath Krishna < ashwath.krishna.iyen...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Well , i know it isnt possible to directly convert an excel sheet to a pdf > file. What i wanna know is , " How to create a pdf using the data from an > excel sheet parsed using POI . ! " . How can i c

Re: [iText-questions] "Unknown Source" is such a bad thing?

2010-01-27 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Mark Storer wrote: > I suggest you try that tool commad with a more recent version of iText. > 1.4.5 is a bit long in the tooth. > > > ... > 1.4.5 seems to be the one currently packaged for Ubuntu. I appreciate your suggestion that an update might be in order.

[iText-questions] "Unknown Source" is such a bad thing?

2010-01-27 Thread Cameron Laird
After considerable effort, we narrowed down a symptom in a much larger system to this traceback: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.lowagie.text.pdf.SimpleBookmark.bookmarkDepth(Unknown Source) at com.lowagie.text.pdf.SimpleBookmark.getBookmark(Unknown Source) at com.low

Re: [iText-questions] How to Detect doubles in PDF using iText

2010-01-07 Thread Cameron Laird
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > I wouldn’t use iText. I would write a script around something like > GraphicsMagick that can rasterize each page into a bitmap image and then > compare the bitmaps for you. > > > ... > I've had occasions where the nature of the pages w

Re: [iText-questions] What's the opposite of "annotate or comment"?

2009-11-30 Thread Cameron Laird
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > PDF/A (ISO 19005-1), the standard for long term archiving of PDF > documents, FULLY SUPPORTS live annotations. There is no reason to strip > them out. > >... > I've confused you. The request is not--NOT--to strip out annotations.

Re: [iText-questions] What's the opposite of "annotate or comment"?

2009-11-30 Thread Cameron Laird
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Fabrizio Arosio wrote: > If you need to copy a PDF with annotations to a new PDF without > annotations, you can use PdfWriter to create a new pdf with all pages > imported from the source pdf. PdfImportedPage with PdfWriter does not > preserve annotations. > Someth

Re: [iText-questions] What's the opposite of "annotate or comment"?

2009-11-30 Thread Cameron Laird
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > Why would you want to do that? You use all the usefulness of the > comments – including information about who made them, when they made them, > and any associated notes that they added to go along with them… > >... > *In order* to "

[iText-questions] What's the opposite of "annotate or comment"?

2009-11-29 Thread Cameron Laird
How do I "flatten" comments and annotations? I doubt that my question has much to do with iText; however, after looking through The Book and The Standard, I still don't even know how to phrase my question well, so I ask the indulgence of the list: please help me figure out at least the right keyw

Re: [iText-questions] convertions to pdf

2009-11-10 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Alexis Pigeon wrote: > 2009/11/10 popprem > >> >>... >> > > That's ok, but try to do a bit af investigation before rushing to the > mailing lists... > > I need to write an java application to convert various file formats to >> PDF. Is there any libraries whi

Re: [iText-questions] Hello from Boston, USA ;-) and Question

2009-10-01 Thread Cameron Laird
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jason Berk wrote: > This would be awesome. I use java / iText for bank statement production > and enjoy the power of Java in that case, but I have "on the fly" cases > I would love to create a "simplistic" PDF straight from PERLwhich I > use like a swiss army

Re: [iText-questions] how to convert pdf to text data using i-text api?

2009-09-30 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Bejawada, Madhusudhan Rao (US - Costa Mesa) wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have a requirement of converting pdf data to text data. > >... > http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net/msg32127.html> --

Re: [iText-questions] Re ad pdf content and store it in a text file

2009-09-19 Thread Cameron Laird
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Alexis Pigeon wrote: > Hi satheeshsamiappan, > > 2009/9/19 satheeshsamiappan > >> >> Hi all, >> I have a situation where i need to read pdf content and store it in text >> file. >>.. > > Long answer : have a look at the FAQ in the iText website, and/or search

Re: [iText-questions] RTF to PDF

2009-09-15 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:32 AM, donanik duck wrote: > HOWEVER, there are quite a few RTF->PDF converters, several available at no > charge. > > I guess you' re talking about tools and not APIs. I already have mentioned > the conversion has to be made programmaticaly. I also have mentioned my > a

Re: [iText-questions] RTF to PDF

2009-09-15 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:55 AM, donanik duck wrote: > Finally, openOffice is not an option at all. It turned out that we don' t > want to couple our application with another one (openOffice.org). Therefore, > I am lost. After searching everything that can be searched in the web I find > no solut

Re: [iText-questions] RTF to PDF

2009-09-14 Thread Cameron Laird
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:37 AM, donanik duck wrote: >...<< Is your host likely to be Linux, Mac OS, Win* ...>> > > We are not aware of the system that will host the app, therefore it should > be as portable as Java can be. >... > So, it seems that I need to find out how to programmatical

Re: [iText-questions] RTF to PDF

2009-09-11 Thread Cameron Laird
Howard Shank has already answered this. I'll add a few words. Are you sure you want to concatenate the RTFs first, *then* convert to PDF? In my own work, I find it more appropriate to convert all the RTFs to PDF, then concatenate PDFs (often, though not always, with iText). An abundance of tools

Re: [iText-questions] itext - 64bit windows server 2008 OS

2009-09-08 Thread Cameron Laird
I see many instances in the archives of what appears to me to be the same confusion. While I certainly don't know how to eliminate it, I'll say a few words of my own:A. iText is a well-managed Java project, with all that implies. All the questions about the host--32-bit, 64-bit, 64-bit-running-3

[iText-questions] iText and Portfolios

2009-08-21 Thread Cameron Laird
I will need several Portfolio-related capabilities. A great start would simply be a method which reports whether a PDF is a Portfolio or not. Where can I read what iText knows about Portfolios? I've read through the archives of the mailing list, with no satisfaction.

Re: [iText-questions] Reading

2009-08-18 Thread Cameron Laird
ceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > 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

[iText-questions] Self-help facilities (was: Help needed)

2009-08-18 Thread Cameron Laird
Maybe you can help me; this thread has *me* confused. I certainly believe "[t]here are numerous messages ..." about, for example, "how to get* XY* coordinates for any string in a PDF". I have the feeling that Mr. Nagarajaiah has been unable to locate even one; I know I've found it difficult. Mr.