Re: [iText-questions] Printing takes way too long

2004-11-12 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 12:45 PM 11/12/2004, Joseph Chakkungal wrote: I used iText to generate a PDF that has many nested tables populated with data from a database. The PDF file is then inserted between two other PDFs (again using iText) to produce one document that has 220 pages with almost 2 Mb size. Now the prob

[iText-questions] Printing takes way too long

2004-11-12 Thread Joseph Chakkungal
Hi, First of all let me thank the people behind iText who did a great job in creating such an extensive java library. I used iText to generate a PDF that has many nested tables populated with data from a database. The PDF file is then inserted between two other PDFs (again using iText) to produ

RE: [iText-questions] Can I embed Movies, Flash, etc using iText?

2004-11-12 Thread Paulo Soares
Title: Re: [iText-questions] Can I embed Movies, Flash, etc using iText? The size problem is also solved, I've just embedded a 700M avi without any problems.   Best Regards, Paulo Soares From: Tom Groves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 9:31 AMTo: Paulo S

[iText-questions] Document not found error. Is it memory??

2004-11-12 Thread Audrey White
Hello, I have had great success on my local box reading in a directory of PDFs adding CLOB data that belongs at the end of each file. However, when I push the code up to our remote version of tomcat (both my desktop and the remote version are on tomcat 4) I get a document not found error. At fir

RE: [iText-questions] UTF-8 Characters from XML to PDF

2004-11-12 Thread Paulo Soares
You don't need to convert anything, that the job of the parser and that's why you must specify the encoding in the XML. Whe you get a String it already has the right char. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Richard Corfield > Sent:

Re: [iText-questions] Will iText support the watermark feature in RTF files in the future? Or is there any way somehow to achieve the same appearance?

2004-11-12 Thread Mark Hall
Currently there are no plans to support this feature. The only other way I am aware of is to insert the necessary data into the file yourself. Greetings, Mark -- My GPG public key is available at: http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~mhall/data/security/MarkHall.asc pgp1jSGZGYgGH.pgp Description: PGP

[iText-questions] UTF-8 Characters from XML to PDF

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Corfield
Hi I have a problem getting UTF-8 encoded characters from XML to PDF. I have searched the archives and managed to learn a lot from that, so I understand that my font in general does not support special characters. However since most of my special characters are in fact greek symbols and iText

RE: [iText-questions] Problems with articles in pdf documents

2004-11-12 Thread Paulo Soares
No attempt is made to keep the articles. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] Problems with articles in pdf documents >

[iText-questions] Will iText support the watermark feature in RTF files in the future? Or is there any way somehow to achieve the same appearance?

2004-11-12 Thread Ken Wang
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[iText-questions] Re: CropBox does not work

2004-11-12 Thread Sven Henckel
As far as I know you have to set the crop box size before opening the document. Best regards Sven --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for bes

[iText-questions] Problems with articles in pdf documents

2004-11-12 Thread meier_daniel
Hello guys I use the com.lowagie.tools.concat_pdf application to merge two pdf documents. Everything works fine until I open the merged pdf with the Acrobat reader, I get the error message "Invalid article object" if I click with the "hand" tool on the document. In the original pdf I see the def

Re: [iText-questions] Size of flattened PDFs

2004-11-12 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 04:40 AM 11/12/2004, Peter Soelter wrote: after flattening a PDF with lots of Fields (in our case 1200) the resulting PDF is quite big. That's not uncommon for flattened PDFs to be large - esp when you have an enormous amount of fields. If you save a sample flattened PDF (1200 Fields,

RE: [iText-questions] (no subject)

2004-11-12 Thread Paulo Soares
Use PdfStamper. See the example stamped.java. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dirk Wellmann > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] (no subject) > > Hi Vankat, > > oh,

Re: [iText-questions] (no subject)

2004-11-12 Thread Dirk Wellmann
Hi Vankat, oh, just take a closer look at the java-Docs. I build that application with iText 0.97 until now the API of this has been changed. So it worked that way in the past, for now the API seems to be different, I just looked at the new javadoc and found many differences. The tutorial at iTex

RE: [iText-questions] Size of flattened PDFs

2004-11-12 Thread Paulo Soares
Flattening only moves the field appearances from the acroform to the page content as xobjects. The pdf doesn't get bigger nor smaller. iText can't do more than this. To do what postscript does would require a content parser to insert the xobject with the appearances inside the content stream with a

RE: [iText-questions] Absolute positioning of lists

2004-11-12 Thread Paulo Soares
You need the version at http://itextpaulo.sf.net and ColumnText/PdfPCell.addElement(). > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Martin Resch (adaptions GmbH) > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 9:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iT

[iText-questions] Absolute positioning of lists

2004-11-12 Thread Martin Resch (adaptions GmbH)
Hello, is it possible to position a list absolutly on a page? I tried it this way: List->Paragraph->PdfPCell->PdfPTable and positioned the table, but this doesn't work, the content of the ListItems are placed in one line without a ListSymbol. Thanks a lot, Martin --

[iText-questions] Size of flattened PDFs

2004-11-12 Thread Peter Soelter
Hi to all, after flattening a PDF with lots of Fields (in our case 1200) the resulting PDF is quite big. For every flattened field something like this is generated by iText: 1414 0 obj <>/ProcSet [/PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC /ImageI]>>/Subtype/Form/Filter/FlateDecode/Length 84/FormType 1/

Re: [iText-questions] Can I embed Movies, Flash, etc using iText?

2004-11-12 Thread Tom Groves
Title: Re: [iText-questions] Can I embed Movies, Flash, etc using iText? Paulo, FYI, I got itext-paulo-141 down and it worked a treat – thanks very much for the help! Just to let you know as well, from the very few movies that I’ve been toying with, mainly quicktime, it seems that there’s a ‘r