Re: [iText-questions] New XmlWorker port to c#?

2011-08-10 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 10/08/2011 23:34, ToddV wrote: > Was this work ever completed? It was, but the release was postponed because the API of the Java XML Worker hasn't been finalized yet. For instance: working with pipelines, byte[] vs char[],... The C# port of XML Worker will be released at the same time as the ne

Re: [iText-questions] New XmlWorker port to c#?

2011-08-10 Thread ToddV
Was this work ever completed? -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/New-XmlWorker-port-to-c-tp3528240p3734370.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [iText-questions] SubForm and Field Additions

2011-08-10 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 10/08/2011 22:45, Sanjeev Sharma wrote: > I want to be able to add the Data Field (hidden) as above so that my PDF > has a data field that I can set data and display. I'm a little bit confused because you're mixing XFA and AcroForm technology. I'm also not sure if you're talking about creating a

[iText-questions] SubForm and Field Additions

2011-08-10 Thread Sanjeev Sharma
This worked perfect - thanks - very much. Now I have a different issue. The PDF template that was originally there had a hidden field to which data was set using the following calls: PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, outputStream); AcroFields form = stamper.getAcroFields(); form.setFiel

Re: [iText-questions] Add summary page

2011-08-10 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 10/08/2011 16:54, d3d3 wrote: > After some searches, I'm able to find any sample with the creation of a > summary page. Which example are you referring to? > Is it possible to add a summary page containing each objects "Chapter" and > "Section" of the document ? I don't understand the questio

Re: [iText-questions] No SAXiTextHandler.java in itextpdf-5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 10/08/2011 16:11, Singh, Udit wrote: SAXiTextHandler is not present. It has been replaced with http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlworker/ but the API is completely different. By the way: you didn't subscribe to the list. Please read http://lowagie.com/rule1 --

Re: [iText-questions] Signature validation bug in iText 5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread Paulo Soares
Signatures are being redone to use higher level bouncycastle CMS classes. This will also include pades 4 ltv. Paulo -Original Message- From: Stefan Santesson [mailto:ste...@aaa-sec.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 5:18 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here; mkl Subject: R

Re: [iText-questions] No SAXiTextHandler.java in itextpdf-5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread Balder VC
On 10/08/2011 16:11, Singh, Udit wrote: Hi, I was using itext-1.3.7 jar That's mighty old, you can't expect everything to be the same and currently I got a requirement to add attachments to the pdf. The latest version available is itextpdf-5.1.7 which gives me the flexibility of attachment but

[iText-questions] No SAXiTextHandler.java in itextpdf-5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread Singh, Udit
Hi, I was using itext-1.3.7 jar and currently I got a requirement to add attachments to the pdf. The latest version available is itextpdf-5.1.7 which gives me the flexibility of attachment but SAXiTextHandler is not present. Can you please help? Thanks, Udit ---

Re: [iText-questions] Error message

2011-08-10 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 10/08/2011 18:10, Brenda S. Lippens wrote: I purchased a license for the iTextSharp Professional desktop license to download pdf files through our data processor, CU*Answers. CU*Answers has helped me load the software into the proper file but when I try to download a pdf I get an error me

Re: [iText-questions] Error message

2011-08-10 Thread Balder VC
Hi If CU*Answers made software that uses itext and let you pay for the license then you or CU*Answers is still responsible for the piece of software that they wrote. We cannot know in what way they use itext. If they are pointing you to this list they are unfair to you and don't want to help y

Re: [iText-questions] Signature validation bug in iText 5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread Stefan Santesson
Just looked into it and concluded that it is not as easy as I first thought. That change would affect all signature modes and hence you would have to alter all constructors and make sure it's backwards compatible. It would take some effort to make sure that the code is not messed up after the fix.

[iText-questions] Error message

2011-08-10 Thread Brenda S. Lippens
I purchased a license for the iTextSharp Professional desktop license to download pdf files through our data processor, CU*Answers. CU*Answers has helped me load the software into the proper file but when I try to download a pdf I get an error message: CU*Base GOLD could not complete the reque

Re: [iText-questions] Signature validation bug in iText 5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread mkl
Stefan, Stefan Santesson wrote: > If my approach is acceptable, then I could easily provide a backwards > compatible patch for this. If I recall correctly, a completely overhauled signature api for itext currently is being created. Therefore, I think that it is more important that such problems a

Re: [iText-questions] Signature validation bug in iText 5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread Stefan Santesson
Michael, OK, I see now where you are coming from. If the signer used another hash to calculate the hash of the PDF content (stored in encContentInfo) than was used to create the signature, then current iText code will fail. Not sure why the signer would choose to do that, but if happen for some r

[iText-questions] Add summary page

2011-08-10 Thread d3d3
Hello, After some searches, I'm able to find any sample with the creation of a summary page.. Is it possible to add a summary page containing each objects "Chapter" and "Section" of the document ? Does anybody can point me to a sample? Thanks in advance, -- View this message in context: http:/

Re: [iText-questions] Signature validation bug in iText 5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread mkl
Stefan, Stefan Santesson wrote: > I think the fix is right. I think so, too. My remark was about additional issues to fix in the code. I think that your fix does use the correct algorithm for encContDigest, but the original code in some cases doesn't for messageDigest! When handling a adbe.pkcs

Re: [iText-questions] Unable to extract Tiff Image

2011-08-10 Thread Kevin Day
oooh! I like the flogging idea ;-) seriously, though - if the OP sends me a patch, I'll review it and get it incorporated. Or we can wait until I run into the problem on our production systems, then I'll take a look at it. What I'm not interested in doing is spending a lot of my time trying to

Re: [iText-questions] URGENT: itext problem - opening a PDF requires installing unnecessary font packs

2011-08-10 Thread Balder VC
response:"You should embed the fonts in the PDF (provided that you have the fonts, if you don't have the fonts you can't display i, read cmap_info.txt" On 10/08/2011 14:31, Attar, Diana wrote: Hey, I'm using iText to generate PDF reports. I use a FontSelector object which is initialized wit

Re: [iText-questions] URGENT: itext problem - opening a PDF requires installing unnecessary font packs

2011-08-10 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
Using the word URGENT is considered rude and it's forbidden on this list: http://lowagie.com/rule1 Also it is advised to read the documentation before posting a question: http://itextpdf.com/book/ On 10/08/2011 14:31, Attar, Diana wrote: > How can I initialize the FontSelector object with all th

[iText-questions] URGENT: itext problem - opening a PDF requires installing unnecessary font packs

2011-08-10 Thread Attar, Diana
Hey, I'm using iText to generate PDF reports. I use a FontSelector object which is initialized with CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts. Of course I also have iTextAsian.jar installed. I created a PDF that contains only 2 words in Japanese, but the problem is when I try to open it I get a

Re: [iText-questions] Signature validation bug in iText 5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread Stefan Santesson
Hi Michael, I think the fix is right. The digest algorithm to use when calculating the hash of the encapsulated content info is the signers hash algorithm (RFC 5652 section 5). The signers hash algorithm is extracted from SigenrInfo (index 2 in the sequence) This is extracted from signerInfo in

[iText-questions] Fwd: Fwd: FW: Retrieving settings from PDF files using iText

2011-08-10 Thread John Renfrew
Surely it's a licence thing too If you want #your# project to be open source then itext costs nothing, support is free but on the condition that you take what you get. Again, because it appears free there is NO obligation on anyone to answer any of your questions. I work as a major supplier to

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: FW: Retrieving settings from PDF files using iText

2011-08-10 Thread William Bell
Keith, Thank you for your reply, which I must say was polite, professional, mature and basically well said. I take your point at looking at the situation from a different view. I have and yes perhaps my outburst was somewhat irrational. I am sure that Bruno is in fact a nice guy trying to help.

Re: [iText-questions] Signature validation bug in iText 5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 10/08/2011 12:05, mkl wrote: > I am not too deep into this use case. Same here. I wasn't sure if the fix solves "all" problems (and your mail confirms my doubt), but it seems to solve "a" problem without breaking anything. Hence it was accepted. --

Re: [iText-questions] ICC profile for PDF/A issue..

2011-08-10 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 10/08/2011 10:44, myworld.amol wrote: > But from where should i get this ICC profile? You need an ICC file: http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/icc Which one? We don't know: that depends on the colors you're using and on the output intents you want. Where to find them? Google told me I could do

Re: [iText-questions] Signature validation bug in iText 5.1.1

2011-08-10 Thread mkl
Stefan, Bruno, Stefan Santesson wrote: > The consequence is that iText fails validation of perfectly valid signed > PDF documents containing encapsulated content info (as when using the > adbe.pkcs7.sha1 subfilter). > > [...] > messageDigest = > MessageDigest.getInstance(getHa

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: FW: Retrieving settings from PDF files using iText

2011-08-10 Thread Balder VC
On 10/08/2011 11:33, William Bell wrote: Tom, 1. My name is William NOT Bill and I would appreciate it if you would respect that. Mistakes can happen, I'm sure Tom meant William 2. Initially, Bruno did not answer my latest question - he complained about the length and then asked for my corpor

Re: [iText-questions] Android problem Itext and BouncyCastle

2011-08-10 Thread alfonso fortunato
where can I find itext light version for Android ? -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers u

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: FW: Retrieving settings from PDF files using iText

2011-08-10 Thread Balder VC
On 10/08/2011 11:23, 1T3XT BVBA wrote: The second question (about the stack overflow) is worth taking a look at. Yes, that was my 'daily what the flak' of yesterday. I was almost planning to create a submission for http://thedailywtf.com/ but compiling a decent post out of the whole mail threa

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: FW: Retrieving settings from PDF files using iText

2011-08-10 Thread William Bell
Tom, 1. My name is William NOT Bill and I would appreciate it if you would respect that. 2. Initially, Bruno did not answer my latest question - he complained about the length and then asked for my corporate address so he could send an invoice! 3. Previously, Bruno had suggested that I hadn't pr

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: FW: Retrieving settings from PDF files using iText

2011-08-10 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 10/08/2011 10:18, Keith O wrote: > Not only that, but according to the blog post he gave you the answer I already started looking up the specific section in ISO-32000-1, and I had almost finished writing the mail with the answers when I saw that William "made sure" a new potential iText user o

[iText-questions] ICC profile for PDF/A issue..

2011-08-10 Thread myworld.amol
Hello Support, Hi All, I am trying to create PDF/A file with iText 2.1.7 jar. I know it is older version,but due to some reasons we need to use this version only for PDF/A . writer.setPDFXConformance(PdfWriter.PDFA1B); writer.createXmpMetadata(); when i use these statements and generate PDF/A

Re: [iText-questions] Sign a PDF/A

2011-08-10 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 29/06/2011 15:33, mkl wrote: > I'm afraid, XmpReader (and its callers) have to be fixed or replaced. Finally found the time to look at this bug that was on the development white board since June: http://itext.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/itext?view=revision&revision=4935 The fix was tested with t

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: FW: Retrieving settings from PDF files using iText

2011-08-10 Thread Keith O
Hi William, > From: wrb...@btinternet.com > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 23:18:20 +0100 > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: FW: Retrieving settings from PDF > files using iText Before I start, just want to note that I'm

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: FW: Retrieving settings from PDF files using iText

2011-08-10 Thread TvT
Hey Bill, >The tone Bruno uses in ALL his replies is gruff, rude and with a considerable >air of arrogance.  He has never made me feel that > he actually wants to help.  In fact, he has never actually made me feel that > he even wants me to use his baby as you call it.  If > he is indeed trying