Re: [iText-questions] Transparancy Issue for showing Text on Image

2006-11-13 Thread pranav pandya
Hi Paulo, Thanks for your prompt reply. Yes, I used PDFReader to get Document object. I am pasting my whole code for your reference. Even I tested with PDFGSate and with over.setGState(gs)...could  not get result. --Code                  Documen

[iText-questions] Saving PDF files with Reader Extension

2006-11-13 Thread Sendhil Dhakshinamoorthy
I am trying to read existing PDF file and fill it with values and display the modified PDF to user.  All the PDF files have Acrobat Reader Extensions applied to them and are modifyable and savable locally. I am using PdfStamper to fill the values and flush the ByteArrayOutputStream to the client. 

Re: [iText-questions] Extract PDF

2006-11-13 Thread S3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the link: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars That sounds exactly like what I wanted. Is there a pdf2mars and mars2pdf utilities for Linux? I could really use that! The page only says about a plugin, which wouldn't be useful to me. >

Re: [iText-questions] Extract PDF

2006-11-13 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 7:36 PM -0600 11/13/06, S3 wrote: >I realize that there are plenty of strange things that >it could potentially do, but I bet in most common circumstances >it is not an issue. You'd lose that bet - sorry! Anytime you have a subset font, there is LOTS of work to do... >Since y

Re: [iText-questions] Extract PDF

2006-11-13 Thread S3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I realize that there are plenty of strange things that it could potentially do, but I bet in most common circumstances it is not an issue. I _DON'T_ want it in a format like what the PDF was made from (like turning it into LaTeX for example). I just w

Re: [iText-questions] Extract PDF

2006-11-13 Thread Mark Storer
How do you expect to manipulate the PDF? Text in particular can be unlike anything you might expect: Custom encodings (byte values may have nothing to do with ASCII, Unicode, or anything else... encodings are often whipped up on the fly) Absent encodings (raw glyph indexes into a font with no c

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple signatures (was: why don't they work ? )

2006-11-13 Thread antonio
... > * Within the appended-revision section, there is a dictionary object > (66 0) with /Type/catalog > What is it for ? It is a dangling (not referenced) object. bug fixed :) ... > I'd like to know more about difficulties and limits of your > experiment, so please aswer to my last question:

[iText-questions] Extract PDF

2006-11-13 Thread S3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any standard utility to extract everything in a PDF to an XML file (and images and fonts in separate files) for easy manipulation? (If not, I should write one!) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple signatures (was: why don't they work ? )

2006-11-13 Thread aiacono
... > * Within the appended-revision section, there is a dictionary object > (66 0) with /Type/catalog > What is it for ? It is a dangling (not referenced) object. bug fixed :):) ... > I'd like to know more about difficulties and limits of your > experiment, so please aswer to my last questio

Re: [iText-questions] Searching Fields and Watermarks on Images.

2006-11-13 Thread Mark Storer
Question: Does it have to be form fields? Can you use regular text instead? With a PdfStamper, you could get the page's "under content" and write your text there. If you're stuck with a form field, I've got some good news, and some bad news. Bad News: Form fields can't be underneath anythin

[iText-questions] Searching Fields and Watermarks on Images.

2006-11-13 Thread Phanindra Mankale
Hello, I am creating a PDF document using a Tiff Image. and this is okay. I now need to mark certain parts of this image drawing lines. This is also okay. I could do this easily using itextSharp ( many thanks!) I now need to have hidden form fields with some words under these marked parts How

Re: [iText-questions] Transparancy Issue for showing Text on Image

2006-11-13 Thread Carsten Hammer
Whats wrong with the watermark toolbox plugin? pranav pandya schrieb: > Hi, > > I am a new member to this forum. I want to display a Text as watermark > on each page of iText. I have developed the code for the same which > shows things well for major pdfs. However I am having one PDF which >

Re: [iText-questions] encoding problem with accent

2006-11-13 Thread Paulo Soares
The servlet use encoding UTF-8 and you are probably using ISO-8859-1 or the default platform one. Use the appropriate String constructor. Paulo > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Clement Honore > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 4:4

[iText-questions] encoding problem with accent

2006-11-13 Thread Clement Honore
Hello, I have a problem with accents when I generate a pdf from a servlet. Special haracters like accents or "'" are replaces by some bad characters. For example "é" becomes "é". I haven't the problem when I generate the pdf from a standalone application, only when I am in a servlet. It is the sa

Re: [iText-questions] Transparancy Issue for showing Text on Image

2006-11-13 Thread Paulo Soares
You need over.setGState(gs) to set the opacity but that's not the problem. Where do you get "document" from? PdfStamper doesn't have any. You should use PdfReader.getPageSize(). Paulo > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of pranav pandy

[iText-questions] Transparancy Issue for showing Text on Image

2006-11-13 Thread pranav pandya
Hi,I am a new member to this forum. I want to display a Text as watermark on each page of iText. I have developed the code for the same which shows things well for major pdfs. However I am having one PDF which contains scan images only, no text.When I apply my code to generate the watermark to it,

Re: [iText-questions] Merging PDF/A documents to output also PDF/A

2006-11-13 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 8:41 AM +0100 11/13/06, Beck Julien wrote: >Thanks for your answer. I think we'll then use some PDF/A converter >tool in our workflow to work around this issue. > Although that will get you a PDF/A compliant file out the back end of your system - it really doesn't solve the problems A

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple signatures (was: why don't they work ? )

2006-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Great job Antonio! It is a really promising experiment. I can confirm that your resulting document is correct. Althoug I'm not an expert of pdf-core internals, I noted some strange things within your generated-pdf [3]: * Within the appended-revision section, there is a dictionary object (66 0)

Re: [iText-questions] HTMLWorker working with html fragments

2006-11-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Michael Kottmann wrote: > What I'm trying to do > is create a pdf which takes fragmented html text from > a DB and outputs it into groups. OK. > I initially tried to use the > ColumnText, but I wasn't sure what to set the size to > because I don't know how big each of the lists are > going to b