Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Andrew McLaughlin
Woohoo!! :) That would have saved me about 4 days of research and debugging... :) You might also want to consider marking classes as "final" once they have been added to a Document. Since, for example, new cells added to a table that has already been added to a document are ignored. This too w

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Paulo Soares
Yes, I can throw an exception if there's no listener associated. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Andrew McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 1:06 Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates > Ack!! That fixe

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Andrew McLaughlin
Ack!! That fixed it. Can you throw an exception if the writer is created after the document is open?! These timing issues are real development time burners... :( Andrew On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 04:10 PM, Paulo Soares wrote: I was worried that I had goofed up somewhere when I introduced t

[iText-questions] Nested Tables

2003-03-21 Thread Kenny Tong
Hi I have tried to add nested tables to a Document object but keep getting a error (stack trace) Error: null com.lowagie.text.DocumentException com.lowagie.text.DocumentException at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfDocument.add(Unknown Source) at com.lowagie.text.Document.add(Unknown Source) This only hap

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Paulo Soares
I was worried that I had goofed up somewhere when I introduced the generic resources class but the problem is on the other side. The problem is that the document must be opened after creating the writer and not before. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Matt Benson" <[

Re: [iText-questions] Group 3 TIFF compression

2003-03-21 Thread Paulo Soares
Please send me privately the tiff. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Aaron Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Paulo Soares'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 20:33 Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Group 3 TIFF compression > It is a

Re: [iText-questions] how to generate pdf1.3 documents?

2003-03-21 Thread Paulo Soares
As if transparency was the only new thing in 1.4. Thinking better that's probably right. I'm not adding transparency to iText this weekend, though. iText does a few 1.4 bits but you'll have to look hard to find them. Most of the times the PDF is compatible with 1.2 and I use it to generate PDFs to

Re: [iText-questions] Setup for margins

2003-03-21 Thread Paulo Soares
That's probably the printer limits. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "K. Allan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 21:09 Subject: [iText-questions] Setup for margins > I am using the line: > > >> Document document = ne

[iText-questions] Re: Can you have a second, HTML, stream going to one browser

2003-03-21 Thread Tuan H. Le
Hi, I just tried Bruno's example code classes (PleaseWaitServlet.java and MyPdfGenerator.java), but my IE browser couldn't open the response file. I modified the servlet code by adding these statement into my Struts action class PDFGenerator generator = (PDFGenerator) session.getAttribu

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
Wow, I have no explanation for that! Wiser heads than mine will have to address this. Sorry for my earlier doubt but you can understand my reasoning... -Matt --- Andrew McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran the thing under debug and know for a fact that > it is prs which is > null and

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Andrew McLaughlin
I ran the thing under debug and know for a fact that it is prs which is null and not template. :) Keep in mind the template is the one I created from the get go... :) Here's a screen shot showing the state of the debugger right before it executes that line. Note that prs is null whereas templat

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
Still, according to that section of code, there are two places where the NPE could be thrown: one, at prs.addXObject() and the other at template.getIndirectReference(). It looks as though the PageResources object should have been initialized down the chain when you called Document.open(). This a

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Andrew McLaughlin
The PDF's, all three, are definitely not null as I can view them elsewhere. If I change the filename and rerun, I get a FileNotFoundException so I know I'm hooking up the right PDF's. According to that section of code, it appears that the PageResources has not been initialized, to wit: pu

Re: [iText-questions] Setup for margins

2003-03-21 Thread QJian
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[iText-questions] Setup for margins

2003-03-21 Thread K. Allan Wilson
I am using the line: >>  Document document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER, 0, 0, 10, 10); and it seems that I still have about a one inch margin on the left and right. Is there any way to get rid of that. Thanks for the help on formatting column width. I used your template Kenny. Thanks f

Re: [iText-questions] Does anyone have the "HTMLParser" class?

2003-03-21 Thread Bruno
It's in a separate jar: iTextXML.jar (or if you need the source: iTextXML.zip or iTextXML.tar.gz) Bruno --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Does your code think in ink? You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing.

RE: [iText-questions] Group 3 TIFF compression

2003-03-21 Thread Aaron Kelley
It is a multi-strip image and my code handles multi-strip images of Group 4 compression fine. In fact, that link you sent was a response to an older question I had (to get the multi-strip Group 4 compression working). I was able to figure everything out from what you provided last time. I now ha

[iText-questions] horizontal alignment on keepTogether Paragraphs

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
Never got an answer on this, I apparently had a patch to PdfDocument that transferred the horizontal alignment of a keepTogether Paragraph to the wrapping Table. Does this work in some other automagic fashion or does the change need to go into the codebase? Thanks, Matt --- Matt Benson <[EMAIL P

Re: [iText-questions] how to generate pdf1.3 documents?

2003-03-21 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 6:07 PM +0100 3/21/03, Carsten Hammer wrote: What should I do to generate a PDF 1.3 conforming file using itext? Since iText doesn't support any of the PDF 1.4 features - it would be pretty hard to generate anything BUT 1.3 (well, possibly earlier, but...) Leonard --

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
Code looks good to me; however judging from the stack trace I would say that whichever imported page you tried to add at line 36 of your code was null. If so, your problem is not here, but with that PDF. -Matt --- Andrew McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I've been taking a stab at tr

[iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Andrew McLaughlin
Okay, I've been taking a stab at trying to make the templated PDF work. However, I'm running into resistance. I'm not completely certain that I have set it up properly as I am getting a NullPointerException (indicated below). Can someone take a gander at this code fragment? Docum

Re: [iText-questions] How to make cell heights smaller than font size allows

2003-03-21 Thread Kenny G. Dubuisson, Jr.
I answered my own questions. Here is what I discovered: first, on using setFixedHeight, the height of the row will be the largest height of any cell. When I used smaller numbers they didn't take affect because I hadn't set it on every cell in the row (just for the first cell). Though that works

[iText-questions] How to make cell heights smaller than font size allows

2003-03-21 Thread Kenny G. Dubuisson, Jr.
Hello all. I've run into a little problem. I have a PdfPTable with PdfPCells that I need to "squish up". I want to make the cell height very tight on the text in the cell. To make the cell height smaller I used PdfPCell.setFixedHeight but it seems not to want to make the cell smaller than what

Re: [iText-questions] pdf file in IE

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
I think there are two problems: One, IE wants to know the size of the PDF as you send it. This means you can't write your PDF directly to your ServletOutputStream. You have to write to a ByteArrayOutputStream so that you can set the stream size on your ServletOutputStream. The second problem is

Re: [iText-questions] spacing my columns

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
For Tables, you can use something like setWidths(float[]) or setWidths(int[]). These are relative, which is nice. PdfPTable has the same methods or you can construct it with the same type of relative-width float array. -Matt --- "K. Allan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying create

[iText-questions] how to generate pdf1.3 documents?

2003-03-21 Thread Carsten Hammer
Hi, What should I do to generate a PDF 1.3 conforming file using itext? Is this possible? Best regards, Carsten Hammer --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun

[iText-questions] spacing my columns

2003-03-21 Thread K. Allan Wilson
I am trying create a report with 7 columns per row.  Two of my columns don't have enough room so the text is taking up two lines. Some columns have more than enough room. How do I specify the width of my columns manually? Thanks for pointing me toward tables I plead temporary insanity for forge

[iText-questions] Paragraph and IndentationLeft

2003-03-21 Thread Damjan Ekert
Hello all, I have some problems with the paragraph and the IndentationLeft. As I understood theIndentationLeft should move the paragraph from the left margin? If this is not the case what method should I use? I want that the first paragraph is 2cm from the left margin, the second 4cm etc. Heres t

[iText-questions] Graphics into pdf

2003-03-21 Thread Dimitri Vettenburg
Hi, I am new to iText, an have a basic question : I have written programs that implement the Printable interface. As such, the text is drawn into a Graphics canvas. What I am having problems with is to have the graphics2D object create by the template.createGraphics to point to the same referenc

Re: [iText-questions] New feature request

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
iText already tries to avoid widows in PDF rendering of Paragraphs. Also, the Paragraph class has a setKeepTogether(boolean) method whose purpose should be evident based on its name. Neither of these specifically fulfills your request, which has its own merit, but these might suffice in the absen

[iText-questions] New feature request

2003-03-21 Thread Jaladurgam, Ramana
Hi Paulo/Bruno, Is it possible to add a new feature of iText through which we can specify the number of lines need for a paragraph to start in the current page. Putting it in more elaborate terms: Paragaph p = new Paragraph(); p.needLines(); Means that if n lines of the paragraph can

[iText-questions] pdf file in IE

2003-03-21 Thread David Thielen
Hi;   I know this has been asked & answered before but I never looked at those e-mails before.   What's the scoop on the problem with IE displaying a pdf file and what's the work-around?   thanks - dave

RE: [iText-questions] Text and Image on one Line

2003-03-21 Thread Jaladurgam, Ramana
Title: Message Use a table. A cell can contain the image.   Ramana. -Original Message-From: K. Allan Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:20 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [iText-questions] Text and Image on one LineI am trying to create a r

[iText-questions] Text and Image on one Line

2003-03-21 Thread K. Allan Wilson
I am trying to create a report that shows: FirstName, LastName, Date, Time, and Signature(jpeg image) This line will be repeated over and over until it goes through the list of people that has to be printed, for my testing I am using 45 times. How can I put the text and the jpeg image on

RE: [iText-questions] Setting the width of pdfptable in JSP

2003-03-21 Thread Paulo Soares
setTotalWidth() does nothing if used with Document.add(PdfPTable). Use setWidthPercentage() instead. Next version has the option of also using absolute values in this case. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Sridhar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 20

RE: [iText-questions] FDF Problem

2003-03-21 Thread Paulo Soares
PdfAcroForm has problems due to the renaming of fonts. It will be fixed in the next version. Meanwhile use TextField to generate text, list and combo. As a bonus is also has more options. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: inVader [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Frida

[iText-questions] Setting the width of pdfptable in JSP

2003-03-21 Thread Sridhar
Hi How to set the width of the PdfPTable in JSP. When I use  pdfptable.setTotalWidth(500); its working fine when I execute the example.. but whereas when I use this in my JSP the width is not setting the width is always fixed though I increase or decrease.. could you plz help me in this.     PdfPT

[iText-questions] FDF Problem

2003-03-21 Thread inVader
Hello, itext-questions. Tools: iText 0.97, Acrobat Reader 4, Acrobat Reader 5. I use Fdf and Pdf files together. First, I generate Pdf file with AcroForm. Next, I generate Fdf file width form data. 1. When I try to open Fdf in Acrobat Reader it loads Pdf file with data from Fdf. That's right. But

RE: [iText-questions] Error with itext0.97

2003-03-21 Thread Paulo Soares
Download the jar from www.lowagie.com not from sourceforge. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Kübler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 6:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] Error with itext0.97 > > Good Morning,

Re: [iText-questions] Error with itext0.97

2003-03-21 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Thomas Kübler wrote: Good Morning, i changed from the itext0.94 version to the new one itext0.97. i get then a error with my xml-application. after i initialized the pdf-document and open the PDFWriter a get the error. what can i do? Recompile the iTextXML.jar with JDK1.3. I recompiled the iTe

[iText-questions] Error with itext0.97

2003-03-21 Thread Thomas Kübler
Good Morning,   i changed from the itext0.94 version to the new one itext0.97. i get then a error with my xml-application. after i initialized the pdf-document and open the PDFWriter a get the error. what can i do?   thank you.   thomas kübler   java.lang.NoSuchMethodError  at com.lowagie.te

[iText-questions] HTML to PDF with SAXmyHtmlHandler problem

2003-03-21 Thread Philippe Van Der Gucht
Hello, I am trying to work out a HTML to PDF converter with the help of JTidy (http://lempinen.net/sami/jtidy/). For that I am using SAXmyHtmlHandler as suggested in the tutorial. All is fine except that whenever I use the font tag to set a size for a particular text the size in the PDF is ridicu

[iText-questions] HTML to PDF with SAXmyHtmlHandler problem

2003-03-21 Thread Philippe Van Der Gucht
Hello, I am trying to work out a HTML to PDF converter with the help of JTidy (http://lempinen.net/sami/jtidy/). For that I am using SAXmyHtmlHandler as suggested in the tutorial. All is fine except that whenever I use the font tag to set a size for a particular text the size in the PDF is ridicu

[iText-questions] New page event in RTF

2003-03-21 Thread Pablo Collazos Fernandez
Hi! Does anybody know how i can detect a new page event in RTF informs? Another question: How i can know the page number? I have tried with document.getPageNumber() but always it´s returns 0. Thanks for any help Greetings, Pablo ___ Yahoo! M