Re: [iText-questions] Problem with Embedded fonts

2006-08-10 Thread porcupine
I would embed fonts this way (java): FontFactory.registerDirectories(); Font fnormal = FontFactory.getFont("Verdana", BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.EMBEDDED, 10); Font fbold = FontFactory.getFont("Verdana Bold", BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.EMBEDDED, 10); Note the font Face name is used, therefore no n

Re: [iText-questions] Stamp Annotation from image...

2006-08-10 Thread Alan
Thanks Paulo, I'll try it without the popup and reply to the list so there is a record. Cheers AlanK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paulo Soares Sent: Friday, 11 August 2006 10:30 AM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: R

Re: [iText-questions] Stamp Annotation from image...

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
Create the stamp with PdfAnnotation.createStamp(). Create the FormXObject with writer.getDirectContent().createTemplate() with the dimensions you gave in createStamp(). Pute image inside the template. Set the template with PdfAnnotation.setAppearance(PdfAnnotation.APPEARANCE_NORMAL, template). Y

Re: [iText-questions] Stamp Annotation from image...

2006-08-10 Thread Alan
Thanks Paulo, What I can't work out is do I create the FormXObject (somehow) and set that as the /N value OR can I just create the text.Image and set that as the /N Value Also - Is it okay to leave the PopUp Annot off or does it have to be there? Cheers AlanK -Original Messa

Re: [iText-questions] GetFieldPositions

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
It's in 3.1.3. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Abhishek Srivastava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:46 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] GetFieldPositions > Thanks Paulo, > > Is this fix available in itextsharp 3.

Re: [iText-questions] SetSimpleColumn Question

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
llx is "lower left x" and urx is "upper right x". ColumnText will normalize the values so that they represent a rectangle. About the alignments check your rectangle values, a good exercise is to actually draw a rectangle using the same coordinates to make sure that the rectangle is really where

Re: [iText-questions] strange effects in itext-pdfs

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
We'll have to look at the PDFs. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Stefan Burkard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 2:03 PM Subject: [iText-questions] strange effects in itext-pdfs > hello itext-list > > i am currently concatenating some pdf-files to one new file

Re: [iText-questions] Can An Existing PDF-document Be Read And Output?

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
iText doesn't extract text. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Mike Graziano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:39 PM Subject: [iText-questions] Can An Existing PDF-document Be Read And Output? To all, I recently became aware of iText and have successfully used

Re: [iText-questions] Quick Question

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
There's a plug-in called com.lowagie.tools.plugins.Bookmarks2XML that does the trick. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Brian C. Flynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 6:04 PM Subject: [iText-questions] Quick Question I'm just trying to get all the bookmarks/c

Re: [iText-questions] Mixing text and lines

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
The cb.moveTo(50,50) shouldn't be there, you are starting a path and not ending it before you add the text. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Glen Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:35 PM Subject: [iText-questions] Mixing text and lines >I am doing someth

Re: [iText-questions] PLease help!!! I need an example of usingHTMLWorker

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
HTMLWorker creates PDF from HTML. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Michael Gantman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:34 PM Subject: [iText-questions] PLease help!!! I need an example of usingHTMLWorker Hello All. I need to see a basic sample that demonstrat

Re: [iText-questions] Graphic page spanning

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
The pagination is up to you. Paulo - Original Message - From: "J Fletcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:30 PM Subject: [iText-questions] Graphic page spanning >I am working on a project that involves drawing a chart (manually) on a > Graphics object. It wi

Re: [iText-questions] Problem with Embedded fonts

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
I use the gsviewer for testing and I never get any warnings about TT fonts. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Jeff Mogielnicki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Problem with Embedde

Re: [iText-questions] Exception while getting the revision

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
Use the latest iText release and if it still doesn't we'll see. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Wahaj Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:34 PM Subject: [iText-questions] Exception while getting the revision > Hi, > > I am trying to get a revision from a

Re: [iText-questions] concatenation example

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
- Original Message - From: "Stefan Burkard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 2:52 PM Subject: [iText-questions] concatenation example > of course i can easily use a plain new document as target Yes, you should. Paulo -

Re: [iText-questions] Can An Existing PDF-document Be Read And Output?

2006-08-10 Thread Abhishek Srivastava
Kindly check if http://www.pdfbox.org/ helps you.   regards, Abhishek.  On 8/11/06, Mike Graziano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To all,   I recently became aware of iText and have successfully used it to write PDF-documents from text.  However, now I need to go the other way.  I'd like to read an

Re: [iText-questions] Quick Question

2006-08-10 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 01:04 PM 8/10/2006, Brian C. Flynn wrote: >I'm just trying to get all the bookmarks/chapters that may exist in >a PDF document. Well bookmarks are easy - they exist in a specific data structure in the PDF and there is some excellent high level APIs in iText to parse them. Check out

[iText-questions] Can An Existing PDF-document Be Read And Output?

2006-08-10 Thread Mike Graziano
To all,   I recently became aware of iText and have successfully used it to write PDF-documents from text.  However, now I need to go the other way.  I'd like to read an existing PDF-document and create output.  The FAQ page answers the question   Is it possible to parse an existing PDF-doc

[iText-questions] Quick Question

2006-08-10 Thread Brian C. Flynn
I’m just trying to get all the bookmarks/chapters that may exist in a PDF document. How do I extract those bookmarks/chapter text from a PDF document if they are present? - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need

[iText-questions] jsp to pdf

2006-08-10 Thread TFrench
OK I tried asking this before and received a rather curt answer, so I will try again rephrasing my question History. I currently use JSP and Scriptx to generate my print. The dilemma is; Scriptx does not work 100% of the time so I want to use my JSP pages that are in reality a print page d

[iText-questions] Graphic page spanning

2006-08-10 Thread J Fletcher
I am working on a project that involves drawing a chart (manually) on a Graphics object. It will be too large for one page and will likely span multiple pages, both horizontally and vertically. Does iText handle automatic pagination for a single graphic that spans pages or is the something we c

[iText-questions] Mixing text and lines

2006-08-10 Thread Glen Self
I am doing something wrong with mixing boxes and lines with my text. I keep getting the error "Illegal operation inside a path." from acroreader7. I am attempting to replicate a form that needs to be emailed to people that has lines and check boxes intermixed with hard text and text from a database

Re: [iText-questions] SetSimpleColumn Question

2006-08-10 Thread Abhishek Srivastava
If I change my code to   float[] pos1 = new float[] { 205, 426, 400, 20 }; float[] pos2 = new float[] { 205, 375, 400, 50 }; float[] pos3 = new float[] { 205, 354, 400, 20 };   then I get the result I want. But this is confusing because the api says that setSimpleColumn(llx, lly, urx, ury).  

Re: [iText-questions] Problem with Embedded fonts

2006-08-10 Thread Jeff Mogielnicki
I found the fonts that the program was using and not embedding. (Thank you Paulo). I removed them. Ghostscript was upgraded to 8.54. Now I get a better error message from pdf2ps: " Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. The file has been damaged. This may have bee

[iText-questions] SetSimpleColumn Question

2006-08-10 Thread Abhishek Srivastava
I have written the following code BaseFont arial = BaseFont.CreateFont(@"C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\ARIAL.TTF" , BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED); Font f = new Font(arial, 10f, Font .NORMAL);Document doc = new Document (PageSize.A4.Rotate());PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter .GetInstance(doc, new FileStre

[iText-questions] Exception while getting the revision

2006-08-10 Thread Wahaj Khan
Hi, I am trying to get a revision from a signature. When I use JDK 1.3 or 1.4 it works fine but when I use JDK 1.5+ I get the following exceptions java.io.EOFException at com.lowagie.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray.readFully(RandomAccessFileOrArr ay.java:223) at com.lowagie.text.pdf.AcroFields$R

[iText-questions] Exception while getting the revision

2006-08-10 Thread Wahaj Khan
Hi, I am trying to get a revision from a signature. When I use JDK 1.3 or 1.4 it works fine but when I use JDK 1.5+ I get the following exceptions java.io.EOFException at com.lowagie.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray.readFully(RandomAccessFileOrArr ay.java:223) at com.lowagie.text.pdf.AcroFields$R

Re: [iText-questions] Usage of BaseFont

2006-08-10 Thread porcupine
As Paulo mentions, FontFactory is there to helps us. Think of font Family and font Face, FontFactory.RegisteredFamilies will deliver us a hashtable of families containing each face, in its simplest form (c#): FontFactory.RegisterDirectories(); //always start here ArrayList fontfamilies = new A

[iText-questions] concatenation example

2006-08-10 Thread Stefan Burkard
hello if i run the example code for pdf-file-concatenation from here: http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/examples/com/lowagie/examples/general/copystamp/Concatenate.java the original content of the target-pdf is lost. let's say you want to concatenate pdf1, pdf2 and pdf3 and use pdf3 as concatenated p

[iText-questions] strange effects in itext-pdfs

2006-08-10 Thread Stefan Burkard
hello itext-list i am currently concatenating some pdf-files to one new file with itext and it works fine. the only problem is that the commenting functions of acrobat produce strange effects in pdfs created by itext. i can use for example the highlighter in the source pdfs without problems. i

Re: [iText-questions] GetFieldPositions

2006-08-10 Thread Abhishek Srivastava
Thanks Paulo,   Is this fix available in itextsharp 3.1.3 posted on July 31st this year. on the itextsharp web site? or the fix is in a even later version?   regards, Abhishek.  On 8/10/06, Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's fixed in the latest release.Paulo- Original Message -F

Re: [iText-questions] GetFieldPositions

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
That's fixed in the latest release. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Abhishek Srivastava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:54 PM Subject: [iText-questions] GetFieldPositions >I am reading an PDFDocument which conta

Re: [iText-questions] GetFieldPositions

2006-08-10 Thread Abhishek Srivastava
On the PdfReader I called the following api   Rectangle rect = reader.getPageSize(0); System.out.println("PAGE SIZE {0} {1} {2} {3}", rect.left(), rect.bottom(), rect.right(), rect.top ());   The output is: PAGE SIZE 0 0 595.22 842Yes I know that the Lower left corner or page is the origin. by that

Re: [iText-questions] GetFieldPositions

2006-08-10 Thread Christoph Engelhardt
I too are doing this and it works perfectly well.   Did you recognize, that the PDF coordinate system has its origin in the lower left corner of the document where as most GUI implementations have their origin in the upper left corner? Did you check the page format returned by iText? Is

[iText-questions] GetFieldPositions

2006-08-10 Thread Abhishek Srivastava
I am reading an PDFDocument which contains AcroForm fields. This Acroform was designed for A4 landscape page.   when I read the co-ordinates of the Acrofield using itext, I feel it is not reading the right co-ordinates. It seems as if the co-ordinates which are being reported by GetFieldPositions m

Re: [iText-questions] Stamp Annotation from image...

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
- Original Message - From: "Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Post all your questions about iText here'" Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 6:35 AM Subject: [iText-questions] Stamp Annotation from image... > In Acrobat 7 I can copy an image to the clipboard and then use the "Paste > Clipbo

Re: [iText-questions] Text position problem when inserting text to PDF.

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
The media box doesn't start at 0,0. There's nothing wrong with it but you must adjust the position. Paulo - Original Message - From: "SeungHyun Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:46 AM Subject: [iText-questions] Text position problem when inserting text to

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Generated with data values as Bookmarks!

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
That's a question to the BIRT folks. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Tyrone Hed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:21 AM Subject: [iText-questions] PDF Generated with data values as Bookmarks! > > > Folks, >I am using BIRT (which uses itext interna

Re: [iText-questions] Usage of BaseFont

2006-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
Each file is a style. You may use FontFactory that will simulate a style if it doesn't exist. Use ColumnText to write that font. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Martin Spek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:23 AM Subject: [iText-questions] Usage of BaseFont

[iText-questions] Usage of BaseFont

2006-08-10 Thread Martin Spek
Hello   We are using iText's Direct Content facility.   To define the font to be used, we use the BaseFont class:   BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(font, BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.EMBEDDED); cb.beginText();cb.setFontAndSize(bf, 12);   The variable font is a String containing

[iText-questions] PDF Generated with data values as Bookmarks!

2006-08-10 Thread Tyrone Hed
Folks, I am using BIRT (which uses itext internally to create PDFs) to create a PDF document. I have 16 reports that I generate using the same code but in 4 of them I get this problem. The report looks perfect--all the headers are there, etc. but the data values that should be in th