[iText-questions] Tagged PDF

2006-02-20 Thread Ralf-Klaus Mueller
Hi. I try to create a tagged PDF and am struggling to find out a couple of things using Paulo's 1.55 version of iText: * How can you set a language for the document/StructureElement * How can you define a tabbing order * How can I set alternative text to an image that can be read out loud by Acr

[iText-questions] help regarding filling multiple Acroforms and combining/flattening them

2006-02-20 Thread jeph luna
hi all, i'm a newbie java programmer and i'm also new in using iText. i have this problem : I have 2 pdf's namely (1) SMR.pdf and (2) HasWaste.pdf SMR.pdf has the following fields :facility_name and street  HasWaste.pdf has the following fields :hw_no what i want to achieve is to fill-up SMR.pdf an

[iText-questions] help regarding filling multiple Acroforms and combining/flattening them

2006-02-20 Thread jeph luna
hi all,   i'm a newbie java programmer and i'm also new in using iText. i have this problem :   I have 2 pdf's namely (1) SMR.pdf and (2) HasWaste.pdf   SMR.pdf has the following fields : facility_name and street   HasWaste.pdf has the following fields : hw_no   what i want to achieve is to fill-up

RE: [iText-questions] Downloading iText

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Braman
I don't use Eclipse, I use NetBeans. In netbeans you simply create a new project, click on the libraries tab and do add Add Jar, select the jar you want to add, and then proceed developing. The process must be similar in Eclipse. Start off with a fresh project and try again. I don't think this i

RE: [iText-questions] Problem when filling a form

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Braman
Nicolas, Even many of the commercial products have this problem. I was using ActivePDF a few months back and when you tried to fill in a form created by deginer, everything went bust. The easiest thing to do it to open the file in Acrobat 6.0, save it in that format, and then use iText to fill i

FW: [iText-questions] Downloading iText

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Braman
iText 1.3.6.jar is not a GUI, You add it to your Java Project and it functions as a library, which you can use to call all of the functions it supports. You don't have to comile it with ant, just download the jar to your favorite directory and include the jar as a library or reference in your p

[iText-questions] Downloading iText

2006-02-20 Thread Tim
I want to download the iText.jar file. I downloaded the iText-1.3.jar file but it is a GUI. I want the API that I can use with my own GUI. I don't want to compile it myself with Ant. Is there anyone that can give me the iText.jar for a Windows XP computer? Thanks Tim

Re: [iText-questions] about pdf syntax

2006-02-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
>> can u also tell other languages in which pdfs' can be manipulaed. > All. ;-) That's a good one. (Not that it isn't true...) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the

Re: [iText-questions] Problem when filling a form

2006-02-20 Thread Nicolas Vahlas
Thanks a lot I will try something more traditional Bruno Lowagie wrote: > Nicolas Vahlas wrote: > >> Thanks for this quick answer ... but what do you really mean by Designer >> is not supported? >> Is Adobe Designer producing pdf that iText cannot read? >> >> > It's producing a different type

Re: [iText-questions] about pdf syntax

2006-02-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
saurabh akshekar wrote: Hi all! my name is saurabh. can tell me what is pdf syntax and how it works. I'm trying with itext java api but i also want to study core syntax. Search for 'PDF REFERENCE 1.6' with Google. Take your time. It's a document with about 1200 pages and you'll need some e

Re: [iText-questions] Problem when filling a form

2006-02-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Nicolas Vahlas wrote: Thanks for this quick answer ... but what do you really mean by Designer is not supported? Is Adobe Designer producing pdf that iText cannot read? It's producing a different type of forms (XFA) that isn't supported by any free tool (for the moment). Only traditional Ac

RE: [iText-questions] about pdf syntax

2006-02-20 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of saurabh akshekar > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 4:28 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [iText-questions] about pdf syntax > > Hi all! > my name is saurabh. > can te

RE: [iText-questions] Problem when filling a form

2006-02-20 Thread Paulo Soares
Designer is not supported. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Nicolas Vahlas > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 4:16 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [iText-questions] Problem when filling a form > > It is

RE: [iText-questions] Problem when filling a form

2006-02-20 Thread Paulo Soares
If you produce the form fields with Designer then iText cannot fill them. If the form fields are produced in Acrobat then iText can fill them > -Original Message- > From: Nicolas Vahlas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 4:25 PM > To: Paulo Soares > Cc: itext-qu

[iText-questions] about pdf syntax

2006-02-20 Thread saurabh akshekar
Hi all! my name is saurabh.     can tell me what is pdf syntax and how it works. I'm trying with itext java api but i also want to study core syntax.       can u also tell other languages in which pdfs' can be manipulaed.     regards saurabh Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get

Re: [iText-questions] Problem when filling a form

2006-02-20 Thread Nicolas Vahlas
Thanks for this quick answer ... but what do you really mean by Designer is not supported? Is Adobe Designer producing pdf that iText cannot read? Thanks Paulo Soares wrote: > Designer is not supported. > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF

2006-02-20 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 04:35 AM 2/20/2006, Richard Braman wrote: This is standard tabular data, I am sure you must have seen the likes of it before. Check the attached PDF. I just want to parse the table and put the contents into XML. I would recommend that since you need only do this one (or once per y

[iText-questions] barcode417 questions.

2006-02-20 Thread Albert Liu
I am working on a project that involves creating barcode417. Once I generated using setText(UUID) then I store the raw code in db with uuid. But the question is how people can regenerate the barcode using the raw cdoe which I got from barcode.getOutBits();?   The raw code is generated thi

Re: [iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF

2006-02-20 Thread Udo Rader
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 11:51 +0100, Bruno Lowagie wrote: > Udo Rader wrote: > > > Can't you simply use a formula to calculate the values? Might be a lot > > easier than to extract data from a PDF ... > > That's also my idea. > Also I get the impression we are asked to write a tax program. well,

Re: [iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF

2006-02-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Udo Rader wrote: Can't you simply use a formula to calculate the values? Might be a lot easier than to extract data from a PDF ... That's also my idea. Also I get the impression we are asked to write a tax program. That's not exactly the purpose of this mailing list. br, Bruno --

Re: [iText-questions] How to set font for entire document or table

2006-02-20 Thread Dinesh Mahadevan
>Sublassing Paragraph could make your code more elegant. How do i do that? sorry for seeming noobish or naive..any tutorials or example? Bruno Lowagie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/20/2006 03:31 PM To Dinesh Mahadevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net'" cc Subje

Re: [iText-questions] How to set font for entire document or table

2006-02-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Dinesh Mahadevan wrote: >Sublassing Paragraph could make your code more elegant. How do i do that? sorry for seeming noobish or naive..any tutorials or example? The iText tutorial doesn't want to replace any Java manual discussing the most elementary OO techniques. So you won't find any e

RE: [iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF

2006-02-20 Thread Udo Rader
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 04:35 -0500, Richard Braman wrote: > Bruno > > This is standard tabular data, I am sure you must have seen the likes of > it before. Check the attached PDF. I just want to parse the table and > put the contents into XML. > > Richard Can't you simply use a formula to calcu

Re: [iText-questions] How to set font for entire document or table

2006-02-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Dinesh Mahadevan wrote: so, everytime i have to do this? Font normalFont = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.TIMES, 12); Define the fonts you plan to use in a separate class. Paragraph t2p1 = *new* Paragraph(*new* Chunk("This is my first paragraph. ",normalFont)); Use, construct the Para

RE: [iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Braman
Bruno This is standard tabular data, I am sure you must have seen the likes of it before. Check the attached PDF. I just want to parse the table and put the contents into XML. Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Lowagie Sen

Re: [iText-questions] How to set font for entire document or table

2006-02-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Dinesh Mahadevan wrote: Hi.. I was wondering .. how to set/change font for entire document or a table. The default font is Helvetica. There's no way to change this. You can subclass some objects so that they use another font by default; but it's a better idea always to set the font instead o

RE: [iText-questions] Replacing placeholder value in PDF

2006-02-20 Thread shailesh.raj
ThanksOne more info required:)I want to add 2 Phrase and there should some blank space between 2 phrases ..Here is code samplePhrase phrase = new Phrase(text.toString(), normalFont);phrase.add(new Phrase(30, new Chunk("2/12/2005", boldFont)));Paragraph par = new Paragraph(phrase); But in ou

[iText-questions] How to set font for entire document or table

2006-02-20 Thread Dinesh Mahadevan
Hi.. I was wondering .. how to set/change font for entire document or a table. Regards -Dinesh __

Re: [iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF

2006-02-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Richard Braman wrote: I would appreciate anyones help ith coming up with code using iText, JPedal, or PDFBox for parsing the tax tables, Most of the iText developers live in Europe, so they are not familiar with these IRS forms. br, Bruno -

Re: [iText-questions] Replacing placeholder value in PDF

2006-02-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks One more info required:) I want to add 2 Phrase and there should some blank space between 2 phrases .. Here is code sample *Phrase phrase = new Phrase(text.toString(), normalFont); phrase.add(new Phrase(30, new Chunk("2/12/2005", boldFont))); Paragraph par = n