[iText-questions] ERROR OPENING A PDF DOCUMENT

2006-01-18 Thread satya chowdary
Hi,     I'm using the following code to merge two pdf Documents to form a single pdf document. My pgm runs well and the output also generated. But when i try to open the output pdf i get the following error msg   "There is an error opening the document. There is a problem reading the documen

Re: [iText-questions] Re: PDF optimization

2006-01-18 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 09:09 AM 1/18/2006, Bruno Lowagie wrote: You can't compress a PDF beyond what is possible according to the PDF Reference, That is true... HOWEVER there are many things that can be done to keep the PDF size down (sometimes significantly) using advanced imaging and compressi

[iText-questions] Get the default value of a PDF field

2006-01-18 Thread Luis Catalino
Hello. How do I get the default value of a PDF field? I reached here: PdfStamper stp = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(tmpfile)); AcroFields af = stp.getAcroFields(); String fieldName = ...; ((PdfDictionary) af.getFieldItem("NumOptimus").merged.get(0))                     .get

Re: [iText-questions] Generate Dynamic table when using XML to PDF

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
John Pacino wrote: I do not see how the properties object will help me in this situation. I need to create a table in a java class and then send it to the XMLParser so it can be rendered in the PDF, similiar to the way XmlPeer is used for string objects. I didn't understand the question. I t

Re: [iText-questions] Generate Dynamic table when using XML to PDF

2006-01-18 Thread John Pacino
I do not see how the properties object will help me in this situation. I need to create a table in a java class and then send it to the XMLParser so it can be rendered in the PDF, similiar to the way XmlPeer is used for string objects. John Bruno Lowagie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Pacino wrot

[iText-questions] Re: PDF optimization

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
David Woosley wrote: I used stamper.setFullCompression() just before stamper.close() and I got the same file size. I noticed there are several classes with the setFullCompression() method. Was I using the correct one? If you are creating a document from scratch, you need the method in PdfW

Re: [iText-questions] cyrillic characters overlapping

2006-01-18 Thread Paulo Soares
Just the ones used. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bruno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] cyrillic characters overlapping Excellent - thanks a lot Just a quick query - when you say that the glyph

Re: [iText-questions] cyrillic characters overlapping

2006-01-18 Thread Kieran
Excellent - thanks a lot Just a quick query - when you say that the glyph outlines I need will be emebedded in the PDF, will that be all the outlines from the font, or just the ones that actually get used? Doesn't make a lot of difference to me (other than the file size as you say) - I'm just c

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: XFDF writer

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Luis Catalino wrote: No, there's nothing special about XML. A XML can be parsed using SAX, for example. In itext threre is XmlWriter. But, if there is a XfdfReader, why no a XfdfWriter? If someone wants to modify a xfdf, it has to make a new class to write to the xfdf. I think it makes all s

[iText-questions] Fwd: XFDF writer

2006-01-18 Thread Luis Catalino
-- Forwarded message --From: catchall < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: 18/01/2006 08:44 Subject: Re: XFDF writerTo: Luis Catalino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luis Catalino wrote:> Hi to you all.>> I need to change the value of a field in a xfdf. How do I do that> using itext?

Re: [iText-questions] iText performance vs. pdflib

2006-01-18 Thread Paulo Soares
It's no secret that pdflib is a lot faster and has a smaller memory footprint. That's not only because it's written in C but also because it doesn't attempt to be flexible. It does very well what's in the user's guide but it's not extendable. For example, you don't have dictionaries but structu

RE: [iText-questions] Form with nested tables

2006-01-18 Thread M 501
I have found a solution for my problem which is so simple that I first didn't thought about it. I simply added an additional row to table (t2). So my form looks like this: | --- --- | | |xx|| x | label| | | ---

RE: [iText-questions] Add an entire document to a document... SOLVED

2006-01-18 Thread Paulo Soares
That's a very old example that uses another technique. > -Original Message- > From: michelle jeffreys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:23 AM > To: Paulo Soares; Bruno Lowagie > Cc: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Add a

Re: [iText-questions] Generate Dynamic table when using XML to PDF

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
John Pacino wrote: Is there a way generate a table using dynamic data from a database and inserting it into a template XML. I am currently using the XmlPeer to generate custom taglibs which are passed to the parser in a HashMap XmlParser.parse(document, "unauthTx.xml", taglibs); I need to g

Re: [iText-questions] Fw: using PageEvents with PdfCopy class?

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Aaron J Weber wrote: Is this a known issue? You can't use PdfCopy to CHANGE a document, use PdfStamper instead. Or if you really want to use PageEvents, use PdfWriter and copy the original document using PdfImportedPage. br, Bruno --- This

[iText-questions] Re: PDF optimization

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
David Woosley wrote: Bruno, You want to recommend a PDF optimization/compression Java library? I think I remember seeing a question/answer that said iText doesn't do that. You could use iText with setFullCompression. This will make the file size smaller because it compresses not only the c

Re: [iText-questions] help please

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Tirado Olaya Sandro Javier wrote: hello a would like to know if there is a way to create a pdf file that reproduces the exact design of a html page Your question is all wrong: there is no such thing as the exact design of an HTML page, because HTML can't be used to define the layout of a page.

Re: [iText-questions] Image size in PDF

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
David Woosley wrote: This is somewhat related to my posting from 30 minutes ago. When an image is scaled to 10% of its original size and then drawn into a PDF, will the space required to store the smaller image in the PDF also be reduced by the mathematically-appropriate amount? No, the nu

RE: [iText-questions] Add an entire document to a document... SOLVED

2006-01-18 Thread michelle jeffreys
Thanks Paul, I also found a C# version of the concat class here for anyone interested: http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/examples/Concat.csPaulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's a bug in your conversion. Instead of master.Add(bookmarks) usemaster.AddRange(bookmarks). > -Original Messa

Re: [iText-questions] Image units of measurement

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
David Woosley wrote: That is really, really confusing. To me. Pixels aren't points, I know that. But for the initial dimensions of the image, we say that 1 pixel = 1 user unit and 1 user unit = 1 point by default. iText won't change the number of pixels in an image, but you can change the rel

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [iText-questions] HowTo: send an event on the pdfPage, conditionaly from a text token]]

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Rumen Varbanov wrote: Thank you Bruno! Yes! "newPage" is an existing text! I am reading now the iText tutorial/"Manipulating existing PDF Docs"/Introduction and I am not sure can the iText help to me.. I will write an (event oriented) parser for splitting from pdf datastream.

Re: [iText-questions] Tables and new pages

2006-01-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Please stay on the mailing list instead of replying to me personally.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno, Cheers for getting back to me, I changed to the PdfPTable and alot of the options were gone, but it sovled the issue. Is there anyway to set the cellpadding/defaultcellborder etc like in the