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) tao...@ontario.ca 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 good one for iText, it's not.  The textual substitution
you describe is almost certainly infeasible.  It's very, very likely that
the most satisfying solution to your problem is to return to the original
text formatted as PDF, replace its USA-s, and write it out again as PDF.
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Re: [iText-questions] Insert text at bookmark

2010-06-25 Thread Cameron Laird
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:12 AM, jpcoder jonp...@houseofjones.com 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 unlikely you'll get what you think you
want.  What *do* you want?  Are you expecting the text which follows to
flow to the end of the document?  If the bookmark is just before, Andrew
Jackson's documented disputes with banks and bankers began ..., and you
insert, According to Peter Styron, , do you expect to see

According to Peter Styron, Andrew Jackson's documented ...

?
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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 msto...@autonomy.com 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 there than I do, or
than the original questioner is likely to understand.

Rather than debate how easy something was, I'll relate the little I know:
*)  Batik URL: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik  has its own mailing
list;
*)  Salamander has an active mailing list URL:
https://svgsalamander.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMailingListList ;
*)   There are several SVG mailing lists; URL:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-ig/  is the likeliest
starting point.
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Re: [iText-questions] MS Word to PDF (2)

2010-06-22 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:37 AM, OmegaZiv ziv991...@yahoo.com 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, without fields. Which is why I tried the trick of
 using bookmarks to identify fields location. A trick that didn't work.

 If you happen to know how to Create PDF Form in Word, please let me know.
 ...


Several commercial products render Word documents to PDF.  If you're not
allowed access to Open Office ... well, that makes me think you have
constraints we don't yet fully understand.  If it'll help, I'm willing to
productize OO into a supported utility that simply automates .DOC-.PDF.
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Re: [iText-questions] Query regarding feasibility

2010-06-22 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Mark Storer msto...@autonomy.com 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 the world anyway.

 On the other hand, if you want to recognize anything from anyone, you
 have a very thorny problem to work through.  You HAVE to do OCR.

...
... and if you *can* limit your PDF inputs, you might very well be in a
position to go directly to some underlying datasource, as previous
conversations in this mailing list and elsewhere have noted before.  PLEASE
be aware that managers often don't, to put it bluntly, know what they're
talking about URL:
http://www.itworld.com/software/102862/friends-dont-let-friends-extract-pdf-content.
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Re: [iText-questions] MS Word to PDF (2)

2010-06-21 Thread Cameron Laird
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:12 AM, OmegaZiv ziv991...@yahoo.com 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 (maybe FDF), including the dynamic fields
 3) Use iText to edit the PDF and put actual values in the dynamic fields.

 When Word 2007 and Open Office publish PDF I can't find the fields. I only
 find the field value.
 * Is there an editor that can publish the PDF with the fields?
 * Can iText find the fields?

 Then I tried to wrap the fields with bookmarks, which are converted to the
 PDF. But I am unable to match bookmark information to a specific (wrapped)
 string in the PDF body.
 * Am I missing some method in iText that can match a bookmark to the
 bookmarked string?
...


I believe you are accurately reporting what you were told to do.  I think
what you were told to do is ... confused.

What does Use iText to edit the fields mean?  Is there any user input, or
is this an entirely automated process?  If the latter, why bother with
templating, entry fields, and so on?  In what way is, construct a finished
PDF from given data not a complete solution to the requirements?

I suspect you might be best off to have a PDF-experienced developer
interview your manager or customer.
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Re: [iText-questions] MalformedByteSequenceException

2010-06-12 Thread Cameron Laird
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Cameron Laird
claird.visipr...@gmail.comwrote:



 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Mike Marchywka marchy...@hotmail.comwrote:









 
  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
 
 
 
  Hi,
 
  Can you please guide me how to resolve
  this issue. Even though it is not related with itext.
 

 The fact that it isn't related to itext doesn't stop people from
 responding, however
 you are likely to get responses like hire a programmer at this point :)
 Know one here knows what your input data looks like, you need to validate
 it in any case for a real app - never assume another server returns good
 stuff.



...


 I'm a candidate for hiring.  I work daily with XML and PDF, and can handle
 even erratic situations such as this one appears to be.


It occurs to me I should use less culturally-ambiguous language:  it would
be better to write that my company is available for *contracting* to solve
specific problems such as the one at hand.  I'm not particularly advertising
my availability for full-time employment, only for specialized, temporary
consulting.
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Re: [iText-questions] MalformedByteSequenceException

2010-06-12 Thread Cameron Laird
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Mike Marchywka marchy...@hotmail.comwrote:









 
  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
 
 
 
  Hi,
 
  Can you please guide me how to resolve
  this issue. Even though it is not related with itext.
 

 The fact that it isn't related to itext doesn't stop people from
 responding, however
 you are likely to get responses like hire a programmer at this point :)
 Know one here knows what your input data looks like, you need to validate
 it in any case for a real app - never assume another server returns good
 stuff.



...


I'm a candidate for hiring.  I work daily with XML and PDF, and can handle
even erratic situations such as this one appears to be.
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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 nielspauwel...@gmail.com 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 links. (the pictures will explain a lot more..)  [what I need
 with iText is this (as in pdfone debugging screen showed up:
 m1\m1-toc.pdf)]

 m1-toc.pdf = directory of m1\m1-toc.pdf ..\m1\.. is the folder.


 Root pdf-file by PDFReader function (the content- links m1-toc.pdf 
 m2-toc.pdf I need!!)

 http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/file/n2236285/pdf-file_of_pdfreader.jpg



 PDFOne analyse

 http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/file/n2236285/analyse_-_PDFOneJava.jpg



 also this i tried, but I can't call the method: 'getAllAnnotations' (or do
 I
 don't need to use this?)
 http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/file/n2236285/iText_example.jpg



 can somebody help me out, thx?!


...

I'm lost.  I appreciate that you have provided more detail, and gone to
significant trouble to inform us with pertinent screenshots.  I really don't
know what it's all about, though.  The best I can offer is to point you to
Chapter 7 of the book URL: http://itextpdf.com/book/toc.php ; I suspect
your interest has to do with what PDF calls actions.
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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 marchy...@hotmail.comwrote:











 
  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 PDF
...
  The question that I have is: does iText support converting HTML which
 includes css references and JavaScript to PDF? If I have JavaScript embedded
 in my HTML will it work in the generated PDF? Is it a way to do this?

 There is a webkit app that does this,

 http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

...


I answer the original question more directly:  Flying Saucer is a project
that uses iText to render HTML *and* CSS as PDF.
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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 bkami...@broward.eduwrote:

  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 have Adobe
 Acrobat - hence the need for a web-based form.

 2.)We need a  complete “snapshot” of the form along with the student
 answers stored in our imaging system for government-required record keeping.

 3.)The form has graphics, logos, etc and is formatted in a fairly precise
 manner.

 4.)Our imaging system requires files to be in PDF or TIFF format.



 Based on your response, I’m guessing that we’d capture the data from the
 form submission and use it to populate a pre-built PDF using itext? Is that
 how it would function? Thank you.

 ...

*I* certainly manage Web forms that capture data for government operations,
and render the results to PDF for statutory requirements of one form or
another.  Sometimes, but not always, I rely on iText.  In that sense, then,
I suppose, yes, I constitute an existence proof that it *could* function
that way for you.  I don't understand your precise requirements, though, and
certainly am not in a position to judge whether iText is the *best*
solution.

I'll tangentially speculate, though, based on my own experience, that there
might be *no* solution:  that is, this talk about precise graphics and
exact layouts makes me wonder whether, once again, the agencies involved
have specified an impossible target.  I know there are plenty of times when
I've had to figure out what makes sense, then go back to the decision-makers
to ask them to change their specs to match reality.

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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 i...@1t3xt.info 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 I'd like
 to
  add the property which will be understood by nameddest option over this
  String.
 
  Is it possible ?
 Yes, but probably not the way you expect it.
Does somebody knows how to do it ?
 
 You have a String somewhere on a page in a PDF file.
 This String is part of the page content.

 Now you want to add a named destination.
 This is NOT part of the page content.
 Named destinations are stored in a different structure and they are not
 aware of the content of the page.

 So what you need to do, is to find the position of the String on the page.
 This is not impossible, but it can be very difficult.
 You need to read AND UNDERSTAND chapter 15 of the second edition of
 iText in Action very well.
 It's not something that can be explained in a simple mail.

 Once you have the coordinates of the String, it's very easy to add the
 named destination.
 That's explained in chapter 7.
...


Indeed, though, it can be quite easy to add the nameddest to, for example,
the top of the known page.  In many practical cases, this meets the real
requirements of the task just as well as adding the nameddest to the exact
location of the string in question on that same page.
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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 victor_ba...@yahoo.comwrote:

 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 might learn
from it.
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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 marchy...@hotmail.comwrote:











 
  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 document
 directly to the search result location
 
 
 
  Hello again!
 
  Ok, I'll try to make it a bit clearer. Imagine this table:
 
  Property Name | Blah 1 |  Blah n | HELP_BUTTON
  property 1 | | | btnHelp
  propery 2 | | |btnHelp


 Is this in a browser or your own app?


 
  It the user presses the btnHelp, the Pdf help-file should appear on the
 screen.
  This document has the explanations for all the properties. For example:
 
  1. Property 1
  blahblah and more blah.
 
  2. Property 2
  blh (tables, diagrams...)
 

 are the properties and help responses relatively static and known apriori
 or quite dyanmic?


  Because the help is amassed in one file, the client would want this
 behavior:
  -user clicks on property n btnHelp
  -pdf document opens scrolled directly to n. Property n. - much like
 the bookmark behavior

 Well, everyone gets requests like this you may want to get a better idea of
 what the actual end product should be from the user's view point. If the
 concern
 is general quality of the help text or there is some unique facility
 provided by
 pdf it may make sense but for users who want information for an immediate
 need they may not need lots of pictures. You probably don't want a tutorial
 as you are getting ready to submit a form to trade securities, launch a
 missile, or land a plane.


 
  I found the SetOpenAction method.
  It executes when the document opens. But it needs some parameters. It
 needs a LocalDestination. And here i thought that the text searching would
 come in. I was thinking that:
  - get Property Name from the table
  - search n. property n string in the PDF
  - get the coordinates, location of the string occurrence

 presumably the search is being done by the viewer or do you want itext to
 do this?


  - set the Open Action
  would to the trick.
 
  But can I do that? Any other suggestions or solutions would be welcomed.

 Get a better idea of what the user is supposed to experience and write
 scripts to parse
 the source pdf into a suitable format unless pdf is the right choice.


 
  Thank you for your time  patience.

 It is easier now than to find out later you have designed a system that I
 need to use
 to do something simple- many agencies have been sold on pdf and probably
 try to do stuff
 like this all the time.  There are some very good pdf products generated
 each week
 by govt agencies that have pictorical information, but then there are many
 submissions
 from people forced to make public declarations that use pdf as a big way to
 hide data from
 automated processing etc etc etc.

 ...


To my surprise, Mike, this time I think *I* understand what Victor is after.
 Victor imagines he's asking for a simple operation, and, in the first
place, just wants to know if iText can be part of the solution.  The answer,
unfortunately, is yes and no (as so often happens).

If I'm correct, Mike, this is all about browser-oriented work.

Victor expected iText would have some sort of method whose input is a
textual string, like a piece of text found in the content, and whose
output is something like (page number, x-coordinate, y-coordinate).  No,
iText does *not* have that; Victor, textual extraction remains a hard
problem URL:
http://www.itworld.com/software/102862/friends-dont-let-friends-extract-pdf-content.

HOWEVER, Victor, it might be that you're in a position to decorate your PDFs
with named destinations; at that point, your solution is trivial.
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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 i...@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 do this. Both are explained in
 http://itextpdf.com/book

  Question 2 :  In MS Word there is Field 'NUMPAGES' which print the total
  number of pages, is there any similar function in PDF to print the total
  number of pages?

 One of the two ways mentioned above works more or less like that. The
 other way involves creating the document in two passes.

 This is a question that has been answered over and over again, please
 don't use the mailing list for trivial questions.


...

I personally find it extraordinarily difficult to judge what is trivial,
let alone communicate it to newcomers.  I wish I saw this more clearly.

Viswanathan, along with the examples already offered you, a variant of the
two-pass approach appears in  URL:
http://www.itworld.com/development/106575/pdf-pagination-only-takes-a-few-lines.
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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 i...@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 question.

 Links (anchors, hyperlinks, external go to actions,...) are not part of
 the page content stream; they are stored in Link annotations and very
 easy to retrieve.

 Your problem is that you are not using the correct terminology,
 therefore it is impossible for anybody to answer your question.

 I interpreted your question as a request to do something that is
 impossible: you want to extract structure from a PDF that isn't
 structured (a PDF that isn't tagged).

 You won't find any tool that can do that.

 Maybe your question is of a completely different nature. Maybe you're
 asking something that is easy to achieve, but given the poor phrasing,
 we can't be sure.
...


crimeunit, my personal guess is that iText *can* help you achieve what
you're after.  You'll do well to sharpen your question and ask it again,
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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 marchy...@hotmail.comwrote:











 
  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 directly
 to the search result location
 
 
 
  Hello!
 
  In my app. I have a table. On each row there is a help button. The help
 is provided in the form of a large PDF file.
 
  If the user presses the help button on a row, the PDF should open
 directly where the explanation for that row properties is.
 
  Can I do this with iText (actually iTextSharp)? Can I search the document
 (using the property name on that row) and then open the document to the
 user, directly at that location?

 This is a bit like the prior question about ,  how do I use a servlet to
 deal with big pdf files. The first answer
 might be,  why are you using PDF in this setting? Rather than having a
 help button provoke a search,
 wouldn't you be better off doing the search previously or can help point to
 arbitrary locations?
 In the former case, html with fragments may work or just having separate
 pages, in the latter case a DB
 may be more appropriate although I guess you could ask about PDF indexing
 or TOC capabilities.
 Leonard, you care to explain how PDF is a good choice here? Thanks.
 My interest of course is that I end up having to use some of these
 creations that people design...

 


Victor, it occurs to me that URL:
http://www.itworld.com/development/107909/tools-pdf-internal-links  might
bear on your target.
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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 hla...@gmail.com 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
- 1.2.2

 In the above I would like to collapse 1.1  1.2

 I am using ITextSharp dll with .Net.
...

This question was posted (and reposted) months ago.  Even with this delay, I
think it deserves response.

I don't understand the question--that is, I find it ambiguous.  I *think*
hLalit intends a result of
  -1.0
-1.1
-1.2
but I'm unsure.

In any case, yes, iText includes bookmarking capabilities, and should be
able to handle the precise requirements, whatever they are.  I myself don't
work with iTextSharp, so there's probably little value in me speculating on
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Re: [iText-questions] Multiple PDF documents

2010-05-19 Thread Cameron Laird
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Gabe Calabro g...@kahunaworld.com 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 PDF.

 I can get it to work for a single person passing back a MemoryStream. But
 when I loop it, it basically gets overwritten and the final PDF is a single
 page with the last iterations data.



 Here is a question on stackoverflow that gives my exact logic. Please let
 me know if I can do something like this.



 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2866423/populate-multiple-pdfs

 ...


Are you saying that the response of MHinton in stackoverflow three hours ago
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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! srikan...@live.in 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
 particular page in PDF while its opened.

 Please let me know how to do this in itext.

...


Srikanth, what does it mean to you to go to that particular page in PDF?
 Are you saying that you want to extract a specific page programmatically,
or view a particular page as a human reader?
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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 dhoff...@gmail.com 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 need free but I need something manageable.
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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 psoa...@glintt.com 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 mean in this context?  Is a license required if the Web
application is restricted to faculty in a particular department of a
particular university [my speculation:  that is an intranet, and the license
requires nothing further]?  What if such a faculty member reaches the
departmental application from a Web browser at his home off-campus [my
speculation:  that is *not* an intranet, and source-code-or-license is
required]?  What if the departmental application is open to academic
collaborators who might potentially be based anywhere in the (IP-connected)
world [my speculation:  that is even less of an intranet, and
source-code-or-license is required--but it's really not very commercial, as
the purpose is only to promote academic research]?

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

2010-04-17 Thread Cameron Laird
You want to *automate* printing of PDF instances.  I think you'll find
useful ideas with that keyword; if not, write here again, and I will provide
more detailed help.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Jérôme AIRAUDO
jerome.aira...@c2jinfo.comwrote:

  Thank you for your answer.



 What I really want to do is quite simple : I have a lot of existing PDF and
 I want to print it. The biggest problem with using acrobat is that I cannot
 wait until the print job finished. So when I send a lot of PDF with acrobat
 to print (with dde command print) some of PDF are not printed and the order
 is not good. So I’m looking for printing a PDF document and wait until it’s
 finished.

 It seems to be very simple but I did not find anything in google to help
 me.

 If you have some idea, I’ll be very interesting.



 Cheers,



 Jérôme AIRAUDO

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 *De :* wasegraves [mailto:wasegra...@bellsouth.net]
 *Envoyé :* jeudi 15 avril 2010 15:23
 *À :* Post all your questions about iText here
 *Objet :* Re: [iText-questions] Send PDF to printer without Acrobat



 Short answer = NO. There is no way to print a PDF without a reader.



 Of course, you really could send a PDF directly to ANY printer; but you
 wouldn't like the behavior of said printer when it is unable to process some
 of the strange commands. ;-)



 Leonard has already pointed out to you that what you want can only be done
 with a printer that understands PDF natively. That said, even a PDF printer
 must read your PDF in order to be able to print it.



 Perhaps you should let us know what your real requirements are.



 If your question is about printing without a viewer, you may wish to look
 into the use of AFPL Ghostscript.



 Cheers,

 Bill Segraves


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 *To:* itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
 *Sent:* Thu, April 15, 2010 5:45:33 AM
 *Subject:* [iText-questions] Send PDF to printer without Acrobat

 Hello everybody,



 I’d like to know if, from itextsharp or dotnet, it is possible to print a
 PDF file without using Acrobat or any reader. May be using BytesArray ? I
 really need your help.



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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 marchy...@hotmail.comwrote:


 
  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 did this some years ago:
 
  Use pdftk (based on itext) to extract the page(s) and then convert it to
 image using ghostscript.
 
  pdftk is at http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
 
  ghostscript is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/


 Bruno et al I think you could save time with a page of tools somewhere on
 itext
 site similar to faq and an acrynum list ( THNTDWI- this has nothing to do
 with itext for example).
...


iText and its mailing list certainly could support beefier or multiplied
FAQs; I agree with that.  I also recognize how many commitments everyone
involved already has.

In the meantime, I'm collecting such references in URL:
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.text.pdf/PDF_converters.html , although my
updates to it are rather erratic. Look for another rewrite in about a week.
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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 reason being this
 is part of an application developed using Java..


...


On a paid basis, several of us can help you meet what you've presented as
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if you insist.  In a technical sense, though, your project is outside the
 scope of the iText mailing list, as a couple of others have already
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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 capture the data and create
 the pdf ?
...


'Depends.  Is URL: http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/  sufficient to
your requirements?

How are data parsed using POI different from any other data?  Are you
making the point that you know how to deal with the numeric data, but you
want your PDF result to have the same visual appearance as the original
Excel instance, and you don't know how to do that styling with iText?
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[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.lowagie.tools.concat_pdf.main(Unknown Source)
from, in effect, an invocation of
 java -cp /usr/share/java/itext.jar com.lowagie.tools.concat_pdf L1.pdf
O1.pdf
This is 1.4.5 of iText.

What are my prospects?  L1.pdf is a 52-page instance that *looks* OK at a
casual glance. It's probable that L1.pdf is the output from HTMLDOC
operations.  I suspect I can cut L1.pdf down more to probably just a few
crucial pages that yield the NullPointerException.  I'm open to advice,
though:
A.  Is there any reason to think that someone else is already working on
this fault?
B.  Is there any way I can pre-process L1.pdf or invoke iText differently so
that the two get along better?
C.  Is there someone else who'd like to tackle this?  Pay is possible, if
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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 msto...@autonomy.com 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.

I've installed 5.0.0, but it'll be tomorrow before I can recompile
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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 lrose...@adobe.comwrote:

  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 was such that comparison of
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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 lrose...@adobe.comwrote:

  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 lose all the usefulness of the comments:  the manager
*wants* to strip out all those other potentials, and simply freeze the
visual image at a certain point for archiving.
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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 devlst-it...@yahoo.itwrote:

 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.
 Something similar to:

 Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
 PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
 FileOutputStream(output.pdf));
 PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(source.pdf);
 document.open();
 PdfContentByte canvas = writer.getDirectContent();
 for (int i = 1; i = reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) {
 canvas.addTemplate(writer.getImportedPage(reader, i), 0, 0);
 document.newPage();
 }
 document.close();

 you should also consider source page size and rotation.
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Thank you; there might also be a need eventually to strip out annotations.
 My current requirement, though, is to render the annotations so they
become part of the page images.
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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 lrose...@adobe.comwrote:

  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.  As I
first wrote, I don't know what word to use to describe this requirement.
 The manager wants to render the annotations so they are no longer
annotations, but have an indistinguishable visual image when, for example,
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[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 keywords to use in investigating this matter.

Quite a few applications decorate a PDF instance with annotations,
comments, sticky notes, ...  How can I flatten (I recognize that's a
misnomer, with a specific meaning related to FDFs) an annotated PDF into an
integral PDF with the same appearance?  The Preview application supplied
with Mac OS does what I want:  print as PDF produces just the flattened
form I want, in which the comments are visible, but appear as part of the
document, and are no longer comments.  While I suspect that iText or perhaps
other libraries give me programmatic access to the same operation, I haven't
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Re: [iText-questions] convertions to pdf

2009-11-10 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Alexis Pigeon pigeon.ale...@gmail.comwrote:

 2009/11/10 popprem popp...@gmail.com


...


 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 which i can use for  this??? Please forward
 your
 suggestions.

  The formats i wanted to convert are :

  .rtf Rich Text Format File
  .wpd - WordPerfect Document
  .wps - Microsoft Works Document
  .odt - Open Office Document
  .odp - Open Office Presentation
  .xps - Microsoft's PDFformat
  .svg - Scalable Vector Graphics File
  .wri - Microsoft Write
  .wst / .wsd - Word Star
  .drw - Drawing File
  .eps - Encapsulated PostScript File
  .ps - PostScript File
  .fnt - Windows Font File
  .fon - Generic Font File
  .otf - OpenType Font


 Wow... That's an impressive list you have here...
 First thing I would do is to refuse the assignment: that's a huge workload,
 and in no way it could be achieved by a single person, specially on a
 short-term basis.
 Secondly I would suggest your client to use a PDF printer, such as
 PDFCreator for example.
...


There *are* commercial applications which advertise a substantial part of
these capabilities. On the whole, though, Alexis correctly summarizes:
 those requirements are infeasible in the short term, particularly for
someone so inexperienced as to speculate that iText might be a big part of
the solution.
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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 jb...@purdueefcu.com 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 knife.
...


I've been a member of PEFCU for over thirty years, by the way.

The descriptions here puzzle me.  I wonder whether those posting to this
thread are aware that Perl can manage Java-coded processes, and also that
PDF::API, PDF::API2, PDF::Reuse, ... are already available.

For myself, I get a lot of satisfaction through scripted generation with
HTMLDOC of PDF from HTML descriptions.
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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)
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  Hi,



 I have a requirement of converting pdf data to text data.

...

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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 pigeon.ale...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi satheeshsamiappan,

 2009/9/19 satheeshsamiappan cssathe...@gmail.com


 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
 the mailing list archive, you'll find exhaustive exlpainations on why this
 is not possible.
 ...


And yet, there are scores of organizations and individuals in the business
of doing exactly that:  rendering PDF into text.

You're of course correct, alexis, that the requirements as expressed are
impossible.  At the same time, it's only fair to satheeshsamiappan to
observe that a slight perturbation of the problem might yield an easy
answer.

In any case, pursuit of the subject belongs outside iText.
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Re: [iText-questions] RTF to PDF

2009-09-15 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:55 AM, donanik duck nald...@yahoo.com 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 solution. Is there really not a solution for my problem???

 I think I saw somewhere talking about XSL-FO ... How could this help me, if
 it could?
...


The suggestion to rely on XSL-FO I don't understand; I'll leave that to
others.

Is there really not a solution ...?  Yes and no; if you need it
open-sourced and coded in Java, well, no, I know of none.  HOWEVER, there
are quite a few RTF-PDF converters, several available at no charge, that
are available specifically for Windows or Linux.  If I understand your
situation, therefore, what's before you is to decide how you feel about
coupl[ing your] application with a combination of other ones.

How else *would* a solution look?  Are you making the point that your
organization rejects an external executable, but would be OK with a library?
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Re: [iText-questions] RTF to PDF

2009-09-15 Thread Cameron Laird
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:32 AM, donanik duck nald...@yahoo.com 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
 application has to be portable and not coupled with a specific OS like
 Windows or Linux. If you are talking about APIs at no charge that can make
 the conversion, please name them I' d be very interested.

 Are you making the point that your organization rejects an external
 executable, but would be OK with a library?

 Well, yes. With a library you just import it to your Project and use it.
 Then it is compiled along with the rest of your project and delivered to
 your customer with no extra actions. Whereas with the openOffice solution,
 our customer will have to install openOffice.org as well in the same machine
 that will host our application and make sure the openOffice.org service is
 always running in order for our application to be functional (Right? Or,
 have I misunderstood something here?).
 Let aside the fact that having a whole project (openOffice.org) running
 just to be able to use a small port of its capabilities (document
 conversion) doesn' t exactly seem so good, at list to me.


I understand your description.  While my own experience makes me chuckle at
[w]ith a library you just import it to your Project and use it ..., I
recognize the ideal.  In any case, I can reasonably confidently report to
you that what you're after isn't available:  there's no nicely-packaged
Java-coded RTF-PDF (or DOC-PDF ...) library.  I know the alternatives are
far less convenient for you.  Similarly, as silly as it is to launch
OpenOffice or Word itself just to achieve such an apparently straightforward
result, I leave it to you to decide whether it's even sillier not to achieve
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Re: [iText-questions] RTF to PDF

2009-09-14 Thread Cameron Laird
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:37 AM, donanik duck nald...@yahoo.com 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 programmatically convert an RTF
 (or DOC) to PDF. The rest is solved. Do you have a suggestion on that? Would
 you suggest a different solution?
...


My own experience in this area has *not* emphasized Java.  URL:
http://www.dancrintea.ro/doc-to-pdf/  and URL:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread130906.html# , though, appear to me to
be feasible.
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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 other than iText is available for the RTF-PDF
transformation.  What other constraints do you face?  Do you want this
operation to be interactive or programmatic?  Is your host likely to be
Linux, Mac OS, Win*, ...?  How many files are involved?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:32 AM, donanik duck nald...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 I have a simple question. Can I convert RTF or DOC files to PDF using
 iText?

 My complete need is to combine many RTF (or DOC. either is fine) documents
 to one single document and then transform the result (the one RTF or DOC
 file) to PDF.
 I had a hard time trying to parse the DOC format so I tried to see if I can
 easily do the merge having many PDF files. This worked fine so my only
 problem now is to transform the RTF or DOC files to PDF so I can do the
 merge using iText.

 Can iText help me with that?


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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-32-bit--are really about Java, and not iText.
B.  iText is a well-managed Java project to the extent that it has quite a
nice test/ tree.  Folks with questions can quickly download all sources,
generate, and exercise the tests themselves.
C.  Requests for official link or work perfectly make me wonder whether
the questioner is simply parroting something he's been asked by a manager.
 This raises all sorts of issues about how one explains Open Source to
decision-makers; these, also, have little content to them specific to iText.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:40 AM, mister bean abinst...@pacificdataworks.com
 wrote:


 This has nothing to do with iText. JSE code that runs on 32-bit JVMs runs
 without modification on 64-bit JVMs.

 ---mr. bean



 Thanikaiarasu wrote:
 
  Thanks for the reply. You mean to say iText wil work any where 32 bit or
  64 bit. I can instal 64 version of JRE in
  windows server 2008 64 bit OS,then iText wil work perfectly.
 
-original message-
  Subject: Re: [iText-questions] itext - 64bit windows server 2008 OS
  From: Paulo Soares psoa...@glintt.com
  Date: 31/08/2009 4:24 pm
 
  If Java works there, iText will also work.
 
  Paulo
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Thanikaiarasu [mailto:than...@ovi.com]
  Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 7:50 AM
  To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
  Subject: [iText-questions] itext - 64bit windows server 2008 OS
 
  Dear All,
  I would like to know whether itext- 2.0.8 will work properly
  in a 64bit windows server 2008 operating system. Kindly reply
  and provide any official link for knowing the same.


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[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.
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[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. Pigeon recommended URL: http://1t3xt.com/docs/index.php  and URL:
http://1t3xt.com/docs/book.php .  The iText book is indeed quite valuable,
and I can only second your recommendation, although I don't know where it
directly answers Mr. Nagarajaiah's question.  The on-line documentation ...
well, I've tried to read it all, and I remember nothing that seems to me to
address Mr. Nagarajaiah's question directly.

Do you use the search facility at URL:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=itext-questions ?
I've tried it. I have *never* found anything useful to me with it, nor have
I figured out any magic formula that makes search of the GMANE, Nabble,
mail-archive, or open-Subscriber lists effective.

Perhaps you can illustrate how you'd go about tracking down the answer
Mr. Nagarajaiah
seeks.  I suspect I, at least, would learn a lot from that.

I also suspect that part of the difficulty here might be that I don't
understand the question as well as you.  Mr. Nagarajaiah of course does
himself no favor in choosing Help needed as his subject, nor does he
detail what steps he's already taken to research his topic.  Perhaps your
existing deep familiarity with the mailing-list corpus helps you decode his
intent.

I have the feeling you know how to use existing resources much more
efficiently than I.  I'd like to learn your techniques.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:46 AM, mister bean abinst...@pacificdataworks.com
 wrote:


 Seconding what Alexis wrote to you. There are numerous messages on this
 list
 and discussions in the docs regarding why what you want to do is not
 possible. --mr.bean



 Hi,

 I would like to know how to get XY coordinates for any string in a PDF and
 it does not associated with any tag.

 Thanks in advance.

 Thanks
 Mahadev



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Re: [iText-questions] Reading

2009-08-18 Thread Cameron Laird
You've already been referred to the FAQ.
It's almost certain that the manager who has assigned you this task actually
wants something different.  In any case,
iText does NOT take on the responsibility of extracting the human prose we
see in a PDF image, so your question might better be addressed in some
different forum.

Maybe URL:
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.text.pdf/PDF_converters.html#pdf2txt  will
also interest you.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Chase Preuninger chasepreunin...@gmail.com
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  I just want to be able to read a PDF file.  This may sound like a simple
 task however there are no tutorials which show how to do this.


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