RE: [iText-questions] Adobe Reader v6, v7, and Arabic Text

2005-05-17 Thread Youssef Eldakar
Leonard, By logical as opposed to visual order, do you mean the order in which the characters would be pronounced, or do you mean the order in which they are painted to the output device according to a left-handed coordinate space? "Youssef" in Arabic is spelled ya-waw-sin-fa, but it must be w

[iText-questions] Relative text position

2005-05-17 Thread fabian andres gutierrez
Hi,   can you tell me if itext has a way to write some text in a direct position. eg: 5 cms from the left and 3 cms from the top of the paper.   I cant find anything like that in the faq. Thanks in advance.   regards   Fabian

RE: [iText-questions] Adobe Reader v6, v7, and Arabic Text

2005-05-17 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 07:05 AM 5/17/2005, Youssef Eldakar wrote: Are these developer notes publicly available? No. They were made available by Adobe to developers during the beta period. But you can ask me stuff and I can answer it - I just can't give you the prewritten material. Leonard -

Re: [iText-questions] multiple output types

2005-05-17 Thread Mark Hall
On Monday 16 May 2005 14:13, Doug James wrote: > I was trying to use the base objects, like Table and Cell, in my > document so I could use either a PDFWriter, RTFWriter, or a HTMLWriter. > Make sense? If you stick to the base objects, you should get similar looking documents in each of the format

RE: [iText-questions] UGH! I give up! Blue backgrounds are driving me crazy

2005-05-17 Thread A. Gautier
Yes, iText can definatly make changes to existing documents. I have added fields, moved them around, renamed them and set the /MaxLen property. Also, using PdfContentByte I have been able to change just about anything I have wanted. I just don't understand what you are saying since I can also lo

RE: [iText-questions] Table et hauteur

2005-05-17 Thread Paulo Soares
Table ou PdfPTable? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:14 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [iText-questions] Table et hauteur > > > > Bonjour, > > j'aime

RE: [iText-questions] fill in form question

2005-05-17 Thread Paulo Soares
You must know the field names. It's possible to list the field names but you still have to know what to do with them. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mikhalsky Stanislav > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:20 PM > To: itext-questions

RE: [iText-questions] iText

2005-05-17 Thread Paulo Soares
PdfCopy.setViewerPreferences(). See the javadocs for PdfWriter. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Sri ram Murthy > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:41 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [iText-questions] iText >

[iText-questions] fill in form question

2005-05-17 Thread Mikhalsky Stanislav
Title: fill in form question Hello! I'm trying to use your examples from iText software. Everything looks great. I just have one question -- you have a Register.java class to show how to fill out the form. However, for PDF file, how do I find exact field names? For example, you're using "na

[iText-questions] Table et hauteur

2005-05-17 Thread christophe . canou
Bonjour, j'aimerais mettre une hauteur de ligne spécifique à chacune de mes lignes de mon tableau. Comment puis-je procéder ? PS: excellente librairie --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first softw

[iText-questions] iText

2005-05-17 Thread Sri ram Murthy
Hi All, I am using the class "com.lowagie.tools.concat_pdf " for merging two pdfs. But the output pdf if opened is not showing Bookmarks by default, but clicking on the Bookmarks will show me all the bookmarks. Is there any way to open the pdf with the bookmarks by default. If you requ

[iText-questions] iText - print existing PDF file

2005-05-17 Thread Behnken, Andree
Title: iText - print existing PDF file Hi, I have a question regarding iText and printing: Is there a way to print a pdf-file which exists as a byte[] or a ByteArrayOutputStream from a java program without using servlets (as in the SilentPrinting example) and also without using AcrobatRead

Re: [iText-questions] Paragraphs and Chunks and Graphics2D

2005-05-17 Thread Nederhof M.J.
Dear Bruno, Thanks very much for your help. > Nederhof M.J. wrote: > >Some advice would be appreciated with the following problem. > > > >1) I have a method that generates Egyptian hieroglyphs written to > >Graphics2D, in such a way that no pixelization results. I.e. I write > > curves, not pixel

Re: [iText-questions] Paragraphs and Chunks and Graphics2D

2005-05-17 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Nederhof M.J. wrote: Some advice would be appreciated with the following problem. 1) I have a method that generates Egyptian hieroglyphs written to Graphics2D, in such a way that no pixelization results. I.e. I write curves, not pixels. This has been applied to PdfGraphics2D as well, which works fi

[iText-questions] Paragraphs and Chunks and Graphics2D

2005-05-17 Thread Nederhof M.J.
Some advice would be appreciated with the following problem. 1) I have a method that generates Egyptian hieroglyphs written to Graphics2D, in such a way that no pixelization results. I.e. I write curves, not pixels. This has been applied to PdfGraphics2D as well, which works fine provided I know t

Re: [iText-questions] SimpleTextColumn that flows to next page

2005-05-17 Thread Steve Appling
Try using MultiColumnText. Isabelle Ulfsdotter wrote: Hello, How can I implement a simple ColumnText that automatically flows to the next page when full? What I am looking to do is similar to the ColumnObjects example with multiple columns and a title at the top, but ensure that the columns cont

RE: [iText-questions] Adobe Reader v6, v7, and Arabic Text

2005-05-17 Thread Youssef Eldakar
Are these developer notes publicly available? Thank you so much for the information. Youssef Eldakar Bibliotheca Alexandrina -Original Message- From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 5/17/2005 1:55 PM To: Youssef Eldakar; itext-qu

Re: [iText-questions] Adobe Reader v6, v7, and Arabic Text

2005-05-17 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 04:07 AM 5/17/2005, Youssef Eldakar wrote: It appears that Adobe changed the way Adobe Reader handles Arabic text in v7. Yes, they did. They made it so that the English ("normal") version of Acrobat is ME aware - no longer do users need a separate version of Acrobat when working with

RE: [iText-questions] UGH! I give up! Blue backgrounds are driving me crazy

2005-05-17 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 05:14 PM 5/16/2005, A. Gautier wrote: I need to know how to turn off background and hovor colors using itext, does anyone know how to do that? iText can't modify existing PDF documents. Also, that sort of functionality is usually written into the JavaScripts of the document. Le

[iText-questions] PDFContentByte toPDF()

2005-05-17 Thread Krunoslav Požega
Hi, One question: I have PDFContentByte object (passed to method as parameter). How can I create a PDF document from this PDFContentByte object ? I presume that this is done with the toPDF() method ? But how ? Kruno To sporočilo in vse njegove morebitne priloge lahko vsebujejo zaupne inform

[iText-questions] Plz tell me which jar(s) file I should add to the classpath to compilesource code at my desktop for iText.

2005-05-17 Thread b . laxminarayana
Hi, I am unable to understand how compile the files, which one I found in your site. Please give in detial which jar files are required to add class file, and where from can I get them as early as possible. Thanks n Regards Laxminarayana Boojjewar 91-40-23407500 Ext 605 This e-Mail may co

Re: [iText-questions] trying to download iText 1.3

2005-05-17 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Christopher Spiller wrote: Hello I just tried to download the jar of 1.3, but it only downloaded 15KB! I'll keep trying in case it is an issue on my end, but you may want to double check the link at: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/download.html The 15 kbyte is a webpage provided by SF that redirec

[iText-questions] Split Table or Columns and Create an Appendix

2005-05-17 Thread Janne Berg
Hi ! I have following dilemma: I want to add som content to a PDF say a table, after the table i need to have 2 columns of text that only have limited space to reside in. If this text fills the determined area i need to replace the text with "see appendix" and the move all of the text to anothe

[iText-questions] trying to download iText 1.3

2005-05-17 Thread Christopher Spiller
Hello I just tried to download the jar of 1.3, but it only downloaded 15KB! I'll keep trying in case it is an issue on my end, but you may want to double check the link at: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/download.html Thanks, Chris Spiller --- Th

[iText-questions] Combine Multiple PDF files with master table of contents

2005-05-17 Thread Jared Davis
Hi, I have 200+ existing pdf documents that I would like to combine into one pdf file. The first couple of pages should be a table of contents that would allow the user to click on a name and go to the correct page. My plan was to use PdfStamper on each pdf file to place a new page number on e

[iText-questions] SimpleTextColumn that flows to next page

2005-05-17 Thread Isabelle Ulfsdotter
Hello, How can I implement a simple ColumnText that automatically flows to the next page when full? What I am looking to do is similar to the ColumnObjects example with multiple columns and a title at the top, but ensure that the columns continue on the next page if necessary.   Regards,

RE: [iText-questions] Font class - is it thread-safe?

2005-05-17 Thread Paulo Soares
Yes. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Biker Conrad > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:21 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [iText-questions] Font class - is it thread-safe? > > Is it ok to access an object of

[iText-questions] Adobe Reader v6, v7, and Arabic Text

2005-05-17 Thread Youssef Eldakar
It appears that Adobe changed the way Adobe Reader handles Arabic text in v7. In v6, it used to be that Arabic characters had to be written in normal character order in order to copy-and-paste and search properly, while in v6 ME (Middle Eastern), they had to be written in reverse order. Now, it