[iText-questions] iText programmer wanted - Good pay - Simple straighforward project

2009-02-01 Thread kpenner
Use iText to extract the XFA data from a Livecycle Dynamic PDF, insert text data into some text fields, and then write the changed version back. iText to be used to read & write in the XFA. You will also need to use the XML libraries native to Java to do the specific changes. This application w

Re: [iText-questions] ColumnText Grouping/KeepTogether

2009-02-01 Thread ApolloX
Thanks, although more detail than "read that book" would have been appreciated. Besides, the solution of using a nested table with the outer table disabling works just fine. I just find the syntax a little ugly. It would be nice if grouping was natively supported for elements of ColumnText. --

[iText-questions] iText programmer wanted - Good pay - Simple straighforward project

2009-02-01 Thread Jackie Penner
Use iText to extract the XFA data from a Livecycle Dynamic PDF, insert text data into some text fields, and then write the changed version back.  iText to be used to read & write in the XFA.  You will also need to use the XML libraries native to Java to do the specific changes. This applicatio

[iText-questions] Can we determine the type of pdf using iText ??

2009-02-01 Thread prasannabale
Hello Leonard, Thanks for the reply. I am trying to read the PDF Reference ( http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf ) which I have found on internet. I am not clear when you say keys. Can you be more elaborate on this?? Thanks in advance, bale Leonard Rosenthol

Re: [iText-questions] ColumnText Grouping/KeepTogether

2009-02-01 Thread mister bean
This problem and its solution are discussed in detail in Chapter 7 of the iText book. ( http://is.gd/7Wib ) ---mr. bean ApolloX wrote: > > As a follow-up, I initially tried using Paragraph.setKeepTogether(true) > which worked for single-paragraphs with the same alignment, but did not > work if

Re: [iText-questions] ColumnText Grouping/KeepTogether

2009-02-01 Thread ApolloX
As a follow-up, I initially tried using Paragraph.setKeepTogether(true) which worked for single-paragraphs with the same alignment, but did not work if I had a set of elements with different paragraphs and/or alignments. The solution that worked the best was to add a single outer table, set PdfPT

Re: [iText-questions] setMoreInfo() and Acrobat 7 & 8

2009-02-01 Thread ppiman
Thank you again. I check out and the sample again and I see now where you do the XMP writer. That seems to have fixed my problem. On a side note it looks like the subject is being appended on the end of the keywords field with a ";". Is that by design or is there an option (boolean) to not have i

[iText-questions] ColumnText Grouping/KeepTogether

2009-02-01 Thread ApolloX
Is there a way to prevent elements in an iText column from being split across multiple columns? For example, Paragraph has http://www.1t3xt.info/api/com/lowagie/text/Paragraph.html#keeptogether keeptogether attribute which prevents text within a paragraph from being split across two pages. Is

Re: [iText-questions] I'm having trouble with setting the vertical of a cell

2009-02-01 Thread 1T3XT info
Lopes, James wrote: > I have upgraded to version 2.1.3 and still have the same problem Works for me: See row 9, column 2 in this example: http://1t3xt.info/examples/results/in_action/chapter06/pdfptable_cell_alignment.pdf http://1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=example&id=98 -- This answer is pro

Re: [iText-questions] Getter naming consistency in Paragraph.java

2009-02-01 Thread 1T3XT info
mister bean wrote: > Almost all the getters in Paragraph.java begin with the word get... (as > expected) except for spacingAfter() and spacingBefore(). Can these getters' > names be normalized, so that they start with get? OK, done. Plenty of methods were normalized for iText 2.0, but these must

Re: [iText-questions] "Unknown encryption type (4)"

2009-02-01 Thread 1T3XT info
Ike Okafo wrote: > I am using the IText library in .NET. A call to Dim reader As PdfReader > = New PdfReader(Server.MapPath(strPath & strfileName)) > works ok for an old pdf but when I try opening a newer version of the > pdf. I get the following error. > > "Unknown encryption type (4)" > > Thi

Re: [iText-questions] setMoreInfo() and Acrobat 7 & 8

2009-02-01 Thread 1T3XT info
ppiman wrote: > I left my Itext in Action book at work and > I'm trying to play with this a little. But the book examples are available online: http://1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=example&id=273 -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info

Re: [iText-questions] Tooltips

2009-02-01 Thread 1T3XT info
Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > You don't need to add any actions to get tooltips!! > > The string in the /TU value of the Widget annotation controls the > automatic tooltips... Ow, in iText, this can be set using the method PdfFormField.setUserName(String s); I looked in the PDF Reference for "tool

[iText-questions] Getter naming consistency in Paragraph.java

2009-02-01 Thread mister bean
Almost all the getters in Paragraph.java begin with the word get... (as expected) except for spacingAfter() and spacingBefore(). Can these getters' names be normalized, so that they start with get? Note that both functions' setters start with set..., which makes the getter names even more peculi