Re: [iText-questions] Using iText in a Java program rather than a servlet

2002-04-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I want to run a java program that creates and archives PDF files. This > program will be run nightly, triggered by our AS/400. I have successfully > used the package in a servlet but the AS/400 cannot call a servlet. Can I > create a PDF file with a plain java progra

Re: [iText-questions] Bug in PdfGraphics2D (and fix)

2002-04-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Quoting Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There's a bug in PdfGraphics2D that shows the text at the wrong position if > the text is rotated. The fix is: (fix) OK thanks, I uploaded the fix to CVS. ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

[iText-questions] Using iText in a Java program rather than a servlet

2002-04-18 Thread Joseph_Wilk
I want to run a java program that creates and archives PDF files. This program will be run nightly, triggered by our AS/400. I have successfully used the package in a servlet but the AS/400 cannot call a servlet. Can I create a PDF file with a plain java program using iText rather than using a se

[iText-questions] Transparent image not transparent when printed

2002-04-18 Thread Aaron _
I posted this earlier to the sourceforge message board, but it seems pretty quiet over there... Anyway, I have a transparent PNG that sits on top of a TIFF image. It displays wonderfully, but when I go to print, the transparent image is no longer transparent. This is also the case with the

[iText-questions] acro form question

2002-04-18 Thread David Teran
Hi, i successfully create a radiobutton list according to the examples from Paulo, but i was not able to create a radionbutton list which is distributed over multiple pages. This is possible with Acrobat 5 (just tried it to do it manually) I spend now 6 hours ;-( and i tried everythink i coul

Re: [iText-questions] Fonts and BaseFonts

2002-04-18 Thread Matt Benson
The Font was not instantiated using a BaseFont... That's the reason, how to correct it I don't know because I've never messed with BaseFonts... --- Ben Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would cause a valid Font to return null for > Font.getBaseFont()? > > -- > Ben Sinclair > [EMAIL PROT

[iText-questions] Fonts and BaseFonts

2002-04-18 Thread Ben Sinclair
What would cause a valid Font to return null for Font.getBaseFont()? -- Ben Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions

[iText-questions] Bug in PdfGraphics2D (and fix)

2002-04-18 Thread Paulo Soares
There's a bug in PdfGraphics2D that shows the text at the wrong position if the text is rotated. The fix is: public void drawString(String s, float x, float y) { AffineTransform inverse = this.normalizeMatrix(); AffineTransform flipper = AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(1,-1)

Re: [iText-questions] submitting forms

2002-04-18 Thread Frank Caputo
no, in pdf. On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 02:31 PM, Matt Benson wrote: > in HTML? > > --- Frank Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi, >> >> does anyone know how to submit a form to a webserver >> with either get or >> post? >> >> thanks >> >> --- >> Frank M. Capu

[iText-questions] AcroForms

2002-04-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Quoting Jason Essington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just a thought, but if you send a pdf file via get, wouldn't the whole > file(binary file mind you) need to be urlencoded and sent like get form > data? Remark: the discussion is about AcroForms. You don't want to send the complete PDF file, just

Re: [iText-questions] submitting forms

2002-04-18 Thread Jason Essington
Just a thought, but if you send a pdf file via get, wouldn't the whole file(binary file mind you) need to be urlencoded and sent like get form data? I don't belive that is reasonable (or possible for that matter) as the file would be too long (It would be handy to buffer overflow IIS servers t

Re: [iText-questions] submitting forms

2002-04-18 Thread Frank Caputo
Hi, I also got POST working. And not GET. I guess it is no bug in iText, because PdfAction.SUBMIT_HTML_GET has the correct value, so that the following flags should be ok according to the spec: PdfAction.SUBMIT_HTML_GET + PdfAction.SUBMIT_HTML_FORMAT + PdfAction.SUBMIT_INCLUDE_NO_VALUE_FIELDS

Re: [iText-questions] submitting forms

2002-04-18 Thread David Gilbert
On Thursday 18 April 2002 16:07, Paulo Soares wrote: > > As for Graphic2D: > > I didn't integrate you free_chart example, but I took > > an example from the Graphics2D-tutorial by SUN. I think > > it would be better if David Gilbert puts your example > > on his site to demonstrate how iText could

RE: [iText-questions] submitting forms

2002-04-18 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: Bruno Lowagie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 15:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] submitting forms > > Quoting Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Now you know why I don't like forms in PDF. >

RE: [iText-questions] submitting forms

2002-04-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Quoting Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Now you know why I don't like forms in PDF. ;-) By the way: when I refered to 'people who don't read the tutorial (or FAQ)'. I meant the kind of people who keep on asking: what does this error mean "the image separator '0x2c' is not found after readin

[iText-questions] Inches to Points

2002-04-18 Thread Ben Sinclair
I'm adding iText to an older application that uses 1/10ths of inches as a measurement for locating text on a page. I need to convert this to points for locating in my PDF document. This is what I'm doing now. It's expanded out just for my own readability. I'm assuming that an inch is 72 points.

RE: [iText-questions] submitting forms

2002-04-18 Thread Paulo Soares
Now you know why I don't like forms in PDF. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Bruno Lowagie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 14:21 > To: Matt Benson > Cc: Frank Caputo; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] submitting f

RE: [iText-questions] release 0.91

2002-04-18 Thread Paulo Soares
I didn't read the tutorial... Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Bruno Lowagie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 13:27 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] release 0.91 > > Quoting Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: [iText-questions] submitting forms

2002-04-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
> --- Frank Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > > > does anyone know how to submit a form to a webserver > > with either get or > > post? Quoting Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > in HTML? Of course not, in PDF! I tried it and succeeded to get the POST working. GET didn't work, but

RE: [iText-questions] extracting content from a document

2002-04-18 Thread Matt Benson
Yes, a nice tool I have encountered recently that uses ghostscript (gs) behind the scenes is called pstotext http://research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html . I haven't played with it much but so far it seems pretty good for simple PDFs, anyway... -Matt --- Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [iText-questions] submitting forms

2002-04-18 Thread Matt Benson
in HTML? --- Frank Caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > does anyone know how to submit a form to a webserver > with either get or > post? > > thanks > > --- > Frank M. Caputo > cluster9 > > Juedenstrasse 13 > 37073 Goettingen > Germany > > Tel.: +49 (0) 55

RE: [iText-questions] release 0.91

2002-04-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Quoting Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I suspect you are missing the hyphenation patterns. Yes and no. Tools and patterns can be found in the download-section: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/downloads/ I also added a link to the patterns in the tutorial: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/tutoria

RE: [iText-questions] release 0.91

2002-04-18 Thread Paulo Soares
I suspect you are missing the hyphenation patterns. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Bruno Lowagie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 13:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] release 0.91 > > I have just released iTe

[iText-questions] release 0.91

2002-04-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
I have just released iText0.91! ___ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions

[iText-questions] submitting forms

2002-04-18 Thread Frank Caputo
hi, does anyone know how to submit a form to a webserver with either get or post? thanks --- Frank M. Caputo cluster9 Juedenstrasse 13 37073 Goettingen Germany Tel.: +49 (0) 551 4883077 Fax.: +49 (0) 551 4883079 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [iText-questions] extracting content from a document

2002-04-18 Thread Paulo Soares
Not likely in the near future but stranger things have happened. There are tools like gs and xpdf that already do this and are multi-platform. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Da Costa Henrique [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:14 > To:

RE: [iText-questions] Similar Document & PDFWriter classes in .NET

2002-04-18 Thread Paulo Soares
No need to get out of java, see the thread http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/8175/2002/3/250/8076819/. You'll have to use MS jvm for this to work. Use the jdk1.1.x version (at my site) and the collection classes. I've never tried it but if it works with iText I would appreciate some feedback on

[iText-questions] extracting content from a document

2002-04-18 Thread Da Costa Henrique
hello guys, i'd like to know if some development will be done in a near future to handle simple management of the content of a page, like searching for a bunch of text, extract some text from a page... thnx a lot for this marvelous tool i discovered recently, keep up the good work Best regards,