Re: [iText-questions] invalid strings when doing textextract.

2010-09-22 Thread mp
Is that something you might handle in a future version ? // Magnus -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/invalid-strings-when-doing-textextract-tp2543790p2551483.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---

Re: [iText-questions] v2.x continuity

2010-09-22 Thread 1T3XT info
On 22/09/2010 22:25, Ricardo Andre Redder Junior wrote: > is it legal to continue the development of version v2.x, > keeping the same license, even though you guys hold the IP? You could find a lawyer who says it's legal, but I asked a lawyer and he said it's not. The court will decide when the s

Re: [iText-questions] Problem getting fields values after signing PDF

2010-09-22 Thread 1T3XT info
On 22/09/2010 18:55, Pura Mihai wrote: > Hello! > > I want to get some fields' values from a PDF. > The PDF has two forms, each with some text fields and a signature field. > If the PDF is not signed, I am able to get the values of the fields. > If the PDF is signed (signature field from the first

Re: [iText-questions] v2.x continuity

2010-09-22 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 22/09/2010 21:03, John Hurst wrote: > The amount of effort put into iText by the core developers > is surely impressive. Thanks, it always hurts when I hear somebody yell "let's create a fork!" It's sounds like an insult and a complete lack of respect. Also: why on earth would somebody do that?

Re: [iText-questions] v2.x continuity

2010-09-22 Thread Ricardo Andre Redder Junior
1T3xt, A few comments about your reply: > You are talking about creating a fork. > The reason why iText moved from MPL/LGPL was because the company supporting the project, writing documentation, stimulating development could no longer afford the effort: there had to be revenue or the projec

Re: [iText-questions] v2.x continuity

2010-09-22 Thread John Hurst
Hello. I'm also interested in 2.x continuity. As far as I can see it would be legal to fork the 2.x branch. Similar situations have occurred previously when projects have changed their licences. For example, InterBase went open source and then promptly changed its mind back to closed source, but

Re: [iText-questions] Extract text content between two Outline elements

2010-09-22 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
You can use them as guide(line)s for the text, sure. Of course, you'll need to compare positional values of the text with the destination information. -Original Message- From: Alexander Enrique Urieles Nieto [mailto:aeuriel...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:38 PM To: P

Re: [iText-questions] Extract text content between two Outline elements

2010-09-22 Thread Alexander Enrique Urieles Nieto
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > In addition, each Outline item can have ANY action associated with - run > script, play movie, etc. > It doesn't have to go to a particular page (or section) of a document. I'm interested in those outline items whose actually go to a pa

Re: [iText-questions] v2.x continuity

2010-09-22 Thread 1T3XT info
On 22/09/2010 19:46, Ricardo Andre Redder Junior wrote: > would it be OK for the community to continue the > development of this version? I mean, would there be any legal issue > continuing the development of this version, keeping the same license? > For instance, submitting patches, adding feature

[iText-questions] v2.x continuity

2010-09-22 Thread Ricardo Andre Redder Junior
Hi, I am new to the list, so I'm sorry if this question has already been answered... I made a quick search and haven't found anything, if this is the case, please just point me to the answer and I will be glad to read there. As far as I understood, the version 2 is under MPL/LGPL license which in

Re: [iText-questions] Extract text content between two Outline elements

2010-09-22 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
In most PDF documents, there is NO structural relationship between the "bookmarks" (called Outlines in the PDF standard) and the actual page content. They can be in any order, etc. In addition, each Outline item can have ANY action associated with - run script, play movie, etc. It doesn't hav

[iText-questions] Extract text content between two Outline elements

2010-09-22 Thread Alexander Enrique Urieles Nieto
Hello, I'm trying to extract the Outline of a PDF file and the text content between its elements. So far, I've been able to extract the Outline through the Bookmarks, which I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not. However, I have not been able to figure out how to way to extract the text content

Re: [iText-questions] Dynamicaly show row, depending on page break

2010-09-22 Thread Ernst Plüss
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Re: [iText-questions] invalid strings when doing textextract.

2010-09-22 Thread Paulo Soares
Looks like iText isn't looking at the Differences array. Paulo From: mp [mailto:m...@speedledger.se] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:47 PM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [iText-questions] invalid strings when doing textextract. Did y

Re: [iText-questions] invalid strings when doing textextract.

2010-09-22 Thread mp
Did you read my reply ? I said that jpedal was able to parse err.pdf and correctly extract the text. It is not using OCR. I think itext should handle it as well. Best regards, Magnus -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/invalid-strings-when-doing-textext

Re: [iText-questions] rotationg page contents

2010-09-22 Thread Paulo Soares
Wahtever you use for further processing is badly broken, the rotation is not a hint it's to be respected. As we don't live in a perfect world here's what you can do: - create a new document - set the page size for whatever size you require - import the page from the existing pdf as an Image. - r

Re: [iText-questions] rotationg page contents

2010-09-22 Thread Markus B.
Thanks for your quick answer! Unfortunately that's not exactly what I meant. I'm sorry if I didn't wrote it clearly. 1. I have pages with height > width that are shown in portrait having rotation 0 2. I have pages with width > height that are shown in landscape having rotation 0 I need to rotat

Re: [iText-questions] rotationg page contents

2010-09-22 Thread 1T3XT info
On 22/09/2010 10:42, Markus Bauer wrote: > > Hello, > > Could you help or give me advice with the following problem? If I understand correctly (but you've used so many words that I'm not sure, so don't shoot me if I'm wrong): 1. You have pages with the width < height - that are shown in portra

[iText-questions] rotationg page contents

2010-09-22 Thread Markus Bauer
Hello, Could you help or give me advice with the following problem? I have a PDF sourcefile with multiple pages created by a scanning program. This program automatically rotates the pages. Most time this is working fine but somtimes it happens that single pages have a wrong rotation. The correct