Re: [iText-questions] Document coordinate system

2006-10-17 Thread John Duff
Thanks Mark, I started into implementing #3 just before getting your reply, thanks for all the input though, -John Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:42:21 -0700 From: "Mark Storer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Document coordinate system To: "Post all your questions about iText here

[iText-questions] Question about How to install the product

2006-10-17 Thread Carlos Nunura Caldas
Hello I want to know more about the Itext software to use it in one of my projects. I have downloaded all the files that appeared in the web page (tar or zip) but what is the process to install those libraries? And what I have to do to use this libraries in one JAVA Program … what kind of sent

Re: [iText-questions] Document coordinate system

2006-10-17 Thread Mark Storer
Several things come to mind: 1) Use a PdfGraphics2D from your PdfContentByte. Java's "Graphics" classes use the same sort of coordinate system, and PdfGraphics2D irons out all that for you. Warning: PdfGraphics2D isn't terribly efficient... by necessity. It takes some extra effort to iron ou

[iText-questions] Document coordinate system

2006-10-17 Thread John Duff
I'm trying to print some objects I have, but the work on a coordinate system that starts in the upper left, not lower left as the pdfWriter does by default. I've looked at the docs and there is an example of inverting the coordinates: PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent(); c

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question

2006-10-17 Thread Mick Collins
I think you're correct - our files rarely exceed 40 MB M >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: Post all your questions about iText here > >To: Post all your questions about iText here > >Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question >Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:27:50 -0500 > >Let me clarify one

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question

2006-10-17 Thread Mick Collins
I purposefully limit the pdfs we use to about 10,000 becasue our printers will not print files any larger. Below this limit we're are having good success. M >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: Post all your questions about iText here > >To: Post all your questions about iText here > >Subject: R

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question

2006-10-17 Thread billsanders
Let me clarify one point regarding this post. It's not the number of pages, but I believe it's the size of the PDF. The average size on disk for these PDFs can be 700MB or larger for 27,000 pages. This is due to the method in which the PDF's are generated (Xerox MetaCode to PDF conversion). So

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question

2006-10-17 Thread billsanders
Paulo, This is all local storage. May be my implementation is causing some of the problems. First of all, I'm using iText via Jython, which seems to work well for PdfReader(String file). When I switch to PdfReader(RandomAccessFileOrArray(strPdfFile), None) the performance drops off significantly

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question

2006-10-17 Thread billsanders
The PDF's are ranging from 27,000 pages and up. I've played with various forms of jvm settings-Xms512m -Xmx1024m with no results with the out of memory using PdfReader(String file). It was recommended to use the PdfReader(RandomAccessFileOrArray raf), which causes reading pages and writing them to

Re: [iText-questions] Is there any solution concerning problem withButton text?

2006-10-17 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:33 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [iText-questions] Is there any solution concerning > problem withButton text? >

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question

2006-10-17 Thread Paulo Soares
If you're using a file in a network disk it will take forever. If it's a local disk it will be slower but not that slower if using PdfCopy. Paulo > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bill Sanders > Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:5

Re: [iText-questions] sign a PDF with a crypto USB token and iText

2006-10-17 Thread Paulo Soares
It's always possible to sign with an external signature. Your USB token will have an API that will most probably return a PKCS#7 that you can include in the PDF. Paulo > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Whitney Geldermann > Sent: M

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader question

2006-10-17 Thread Mick Collins
What size pdfs are you dealing with? what are you doing -m reading and copying pdf? I'm processing thousands of pdfs in very short periods of time- minutes. I copy pages from one pdf to another, add blank pages, take blank pages out, stamp images using pdfStamper, count number of pages and concate

[iText-questions] PdfReader question

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Sanders
In a prior post I had out of memory issues reading large PDF's. I changed over to RandomAccessFileOrArray and the memory errors were replaced with extremely slow process. Small PDF's take hours to process. Is there anything that can be done to improve the overall performance. Bill ---

[iText-questions] Is there any solution concerning problem with Button text?

2006-10-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Hi, I found this question in the mailing list archive. Today I got the same problem. My Button is only gray. Is there any solution? Thanks for your answers! slforms Beate* *Niendorf* *wrote*: >Hi :) > >I've got a problem to set text on a button. I'm sure it's a simple >problem because this i

Re: [iText-questions] Dashed table cell border

2006-10-17 Thread Paulo Soares
http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/objects/tables/pdfptable/index.html#cellevents Paulo - Original Message - From: "vislavti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:12 AM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Dashed table cell border > > Hi YOUSUFI, > Please share the c

Re: [iText-questions] embedding video files

2006-10-17 Thread Paulo Soares
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/18056 Paulo - Original Message - From: "jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:36 AM Subject: [iText-questions] embedding video files > hi, > > How to embed a video file into an existing pdf file.I wi

Re: [iText-questions] hello, fop, and file size...

2006-10-17 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 9:25 PM -0400 10/16/06, Chris Markiewicz wrote: >Hello. I've been using Apache's FOP to build dynamic PDF generation >utilities for several years. I've decided to look for an >alternative for a handful of reasons. Most recently, I've gotten >some complaints from a client about the size of

[iText-questions] embedding video files

2006-10-17 Thread jerry
hi, How to embed a video file into an existing pdf file.I will be very much thankful to u if u provide me a sample code to do the above task Thanks and Regards, jerry - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support w