Re: [iText-questions] Remove table or stamp from pdf File

2010-01-20 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
I believe we answered this question for you by explaining that it was a difficult problem and that it would require you to learn the internals of PDF in order to make it work. I recommend that you look into “marked content” and the use of the content parser. Leonard From: Rahul Soni [mailto:r

[iText-questions] Remove table or stamp from pdf File

2010-01-20 Thread Rahul Soni
Hello All, I have one problem with PdfPTable Requirement is such like I have to stamp pdf file with some text like TEST within the rectangle box. So for this requirement I have used PdfPTable and created one table with once column and added once cell in it and in the cell i have written TEST. T

Re: [iText-questions] iText 5.0 documentation

2010-01-20 Thread Peter B. West
Xavier, Does this pom.xml simply provide access to the pre-built jars? I see nothing that seems to refer to the process of building (but that could be just my ignorance of maven.) Peter On 20/01/2010, at 10:51 PM, Xavier Le Vourch wrote: > As I'm the one who added the maven pom.xml file and t

[iText-questions] PDF Form size

2010-01-20 Thread Sean Parsons
Now that I've done a bit more playing, here is what I've seemed to come across. I can do the following: public void processLetter2( String pdfLetter ) { try { //-- create a new file, removing the directory /letters from the file name String sub = Stri

Re: [iText-questions] Spam: Adding text to an existing PDF

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Storer
Absolutely. Check out PdfStamper.getOverContent(). You might end up composing your text-etc in a separate Document, saving it to a ByteArrayOutputStream and importing those pages as templates onto the existing page content. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com #include t

Re: [iText-questions] Rotate Page After Adding Text to Document

2010-01-20 Thread trumpetinc
I went through *exactly* the same source review last month when I started hitting it. I was quite happy to see that iText actually sets the rotation in the page dictionary (I needed it for constructing unit tests), but I agree that the way it happens is a bit hard to follow. If you think about i

Re: [iText-questions] Rotate Page After Adding Text to Document

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Storer
Looking through the Rectangle.rotate() -> Pdf-structures-in-the-output code, I think we might have An Issue. Woah woah woah... let me check the trunk instead of my red-headed-stepchild-branch of 2.0.whatever-it-was. Rectangle.rotate() { // yep, no changes Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(

[iText-questions] Set visible signature on multiple/all pages

2010-01-20 Thread Carles Barrobés
Hi all, I wonder whether it is possible to make one signature visible on more than one location. In my specific case I would like to make it visible on all pages. But if I call the setVisibleSignature more than once for one PdfSignatureAppearance, it ends up showing up only once at the last lo

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Form size

2010-01-20 Thread Mark Storer
Show us your PDF. We'll poke around and see what we can see. You might be building the form inefficiently, in which case a code change on your end may produce similar results. Might not, too... but we can't tell unless we see a PDF. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com #

[iText-questions] Barcode128 PDF start and stop ch aracters don´t appear

2010-01-20 Thread Claudia Murialdo
Hello, could anyone download the ttf font?. Any help would be very appreciated since It seems that a Barcode 128 can´t be generated using fonts. Regards, Claudia. On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Claudia Murialdo wrote: > Sorry about the previous link it doesn't work, I uploaded the barcode here

Re: [iText-questions] iText 5.0 documentation

2010-01-20 Thread Xavier Le Vourch
As I'm the one who added the maven pom.xml file and the automatic sync to the maven repositories, I'll have a look at it and update the group identifier to reflect the package name change. This should not be too difficult to implement so Maven users can also get iText 5.0. Best Regards, Xavier L

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple signatures do not work with signatures on pages other than the first one

2010-01-20 Thread alexrait
I've found a solution thanx to Michael. In the post of the here http://old.nabble.com/Problem-with-PdfReader.eliminateSharedStreams%28%29-in-concert-with-appending-PdfStamper-to26734822.html He says that if he works with RandomAccessFileOrArray then everything goes OK. Hence, I did this change

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple signatures do not work with signatures on pages other than the first one

2010-01-20 Thread mkl
alexrait, alexrait wrote: > Is there any way to manually fix the pdf, like reading it as a text file, > finding and replacing the incorrect content? You can fix it quite easily by replacing the false references in the /Contents array by the original ones. Unfortunately this way you invalidate t

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple signatures do not work with signatures on pages other than the first one

2010-01-20 Thread alexrait
Is there any way to manually fix the pdf, like reading it as a text file, finding and replacing the incorrect content? Now, I've noticed that even if I sign first time on the last page with "append" flag turned on, it won't show the signature mkl wrote: > > alexrait, > > > alexrait wrote:

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple signatures do not work with signatures on pages other than the first one

2010-01-20 Thread mkl
alexrait, alexrait wrote: > Here is the full function that signs. > > public static void SignPDF(Stream instream, Stream outstream, > X509Certificate2 xcer, bool IsVisible, > string imageLocation, int[] rectangle, int page) > { > [...] > Rect

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple signatures do not work with signatures on pages other than the first one

2010-01-20 Thread alexrait
It happens with any file... Here is the full function that signs. public static void SignPDF(Stream instream, Stream outstream, X509Certificate2 xcer, bool IsVisible, string imageLocation, int[] rectangle, int page) { Org.BouncyCastle.X509.X509Certificate[] chain

Re: [iText-questions] iText 5.0 documentation

2010-01-20 Thread mkl
1T3XT info wrote: > mkl wrote: >> That wont be too big a problem. As iText changes substantially, it would >> be >> very much ok to publish the new iText artifacts using a different group >> identifier which may very well be com.itextpdf instead of the former >> com.lowagie. Additionally the main

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple signatures do not work with signatures on pages other than the first one

2010-01-20 Thread mkl
alexrait, alexrait wrote: > First I create a PdfStamper with the append parameter set to true. > I use the SetVisibleSignature method with the page parameter set to "1". > It works as expected if I sign the document once or more. > > Setting the page to "2" or any other page shows the signature

Re: [iText-questions] iText 5.0 documentation

2010-01-20 Thread 1T3XT info
mkl wrote: >> We'll update the POM if necessary, but we expect the Maven >> users to tell us what they need. > > That wont be too big a problem. As iText changes substantially, it would be > very much ok to publish the new iText artifacts using a different group > identifier which may very well be

Re: [iText-questions] iText 5.0 documentation

2010-01-20 Thread mkl
Bruno, 1T3XT info wrote: > We can't have Maven update from the old versions to 5.0 > because that would break everything. > > What we need, is a new project at Maven that no longer > uses the com.lowagie packages, but the com.itextpdf packages. > > I'm not a Maven user (I've followed a course,

Re: [iText-questions] Adding text to an existing PDF

2010-01-20 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Yes, use the importPage and page template features. Details in the iText book. -Original Message- From: ra...@libero.it [mailto:ra...@libero.it] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:25 AM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [iText-questions] Adding text to an existing PDF

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Form size

2010-01-20 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
No, iText doesn't have the full complement of features in the PDF Optimizer in Adobe Acrobat. I would, however, beware of any PDF that small since it would imply that you have NOT embedded any fonts - and that may be an issue... Leonard From: sean_pars...@bcbsok.com [mailto:sean_pars...@bcbsok

Re: [iText-questions] Adding text to an existing PDF

2010-01-20 Thread 1T3XT info
ra...@libero.it wrote: > Is it possible to use an existing PDF like it was a blank sheet and add the > text and graphical components to it? It's called superimposing, and iText is used to achieve this in many projects. > I'm looking around since some days now You probably overlooked the obviou

Re: [iText-questions] iText 5.0 documentation

2010-01-20 Thread 1T3XT info
mkl wrote: > Peter, > > > Peter B. West wrote: >> Now, maybe you can tell me why there is a pom.xml file in there? > > While not being built the Maven way, iText is published in Maven > repositories for use by Maven projects. And being helpfull, the iText > developers already maintain a pom file

[iText-questions] Adding text to an existing PDF

2010-01-20 Thread ra...@libero.it
Hello list I have this problem, I've been given one PDF with just a background image on it and I have to write on it some text. The first solutions I adopted had been to get the image they originally used for the PDF, and use it to compose a brand new PDF with the content I need in it. It near

[iText-questions] PDF Form size

2010-01-20 Thread Sean_Parsons
Is there any way to reduce the size of these files? The file I'm generating winds up being anywhere from 250 to 300K in size. I can open the file in Acrobat, and select Optimize, and it shrinks it to ~32K. Does iText have a way to do this that I'm missing? I've set writer.setFullCompression

[iText-questions] Multiple signatures do not work with signatures on pages other than the first one

2010-01-20 Thread alexrait
First I create a PdfStamper with the append parameter set to true. I use the SetVisibleSignature method with the page parameter set to "1". It works as expected if I sign the document once or more. Setting the page to "2" or any other page shows the signature at the signatures tab on the left, bu

Re: [iText-questions] iText 5.0 documentation

2010-01-20 Thread mkl
Peter, Peter B. West wrote: > Now, maybe you can tell me why there is a pom.xml file in there? While not being built the Maven way, iText is published in Maven repositories for use by Maven projects. And being helpfull, the iText developers already maintain a pom file for the iText artifacts co

Re: [iText-questions] Spam: Re: PDF/A conformance check: Widths in embedded font are inconsistent with /Widths entry in the font dictionary

2010-01-20 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Mark asked me to write up a little something... Font formats (TrueType, Type 1 and OpenType) each have their own way of specifying font width information. These values are in EM's (the theoretically width of an 'M') and vary between the formats - but there are standard conversions between em's