Re: [iText-questions] Using iText to analyze PDF for distilling issues

2011-12-19 Thread Rick . Wellman
I can't thank you enough for a response like that. Definitely increases my knowledge of what's going on! From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:lrose...@adobe.com] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 3:34 PM To: Post here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Using iText to analyze PDF for distilling issues Yes,

Re: [iText-questions] Using iText to analyze PDF for distilling issues

2011-12-19 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Yes, it most certainly CAN include visual data! Consider the following: * Postscript doesn't support JBIG2 or JPEG2000 compressions, so that in order to convert a PDF that uses those to Postscript, the image data must be decompressed and recompressed. If the new compression choice is lossy

Re: [iText-questions] Using iText to analyze PDF for distilling issues

2011-12-19 Thread Rick . Wellman
Well, yes, you are preaching to the choir. We are definitely pursuing another vendor and are thankfully 50%+ done with converting to their tool. Admittedly, PDF format/issues are not my strength... definitely in the learning stage and I appreciate your candid responses. They have, at a minimum

Re: [iText-questions] Using iText to analyze PDF for distilling issues

2011-12-19 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
If I had a "vendor supplied PDF tool" that wasn't handling valid PDF files – I'd go find myself a new vendor and/or tool. The process of "refrying" a PDF (PDF->PS->PDF) is HUGELY lossy. You are throwing away SO MUCH information that can NEVER be recovered. You might as well just poke yourself

Re: [iText-questions] external signing with using mobile signing api::itextsharp

2011-12-19 Thread subasi
Hi Michael, About api, yes it is correct. Because of cleaning some part of the code,i mistyped some functions. Sorry for that. Api is a mssp(mobile signature service provider) client that generates a mssp message to be sent to the operator and then return raw base64 signature to us. So you are ri

Re: [iText-questions] Using iText to analyze PDF for distilling issues

2011-12-19 Thread Rick . Wellman
Thank you Leonard, you have actually given me some ideas for my next step/troubleshooting process. See responses to individual questions below: From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:lrose...@adobe.com] Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:05 AM To: Post here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Using iText to

Re: [iText-questions] PDF signature fails in Adobe Reader

2011-12-19 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Verifyier isn't your problem – it's the signer. Did you write the code that signed this PDF? Was it originally an XFA-based PDF and you tried to sign it as a regular PDF? Leonard From: "Marco Barbi (SATA)" mailto:m.ba...@satanet.it>> Reply-To: Post here mailto:itext-questions@lists.sourceforg

Re: [iText-questions] external signing with using mobile signing api::itextsharp

2011-12-19 Thread mkl
Hasan, subasi wrote > I enclosed the out.pdf also.. > > MobileSignAPI msa= new MobileSignAPI(); > msa.Sign("053", "sign", encodeTo64(hash), "pdf signing", 120); > pk = base64DecodeToByteArr(msa.getSignatureValue)); I just counted the bytes from this return as copied into the

Re: [iText-questions] external signing with using mobile signing api::itextsharp

2011-12-19 Thread mkl
Hasan, ah, good, now on the mailing list. subasi wrote > I reviewed the forum answers and generated a code as below. But the > signed pdf gives an error while verification.Please show me what is wrong > on that. > > I enclosed the out.pdf also.. I looked at that document, and the problem is th

[iText-questions] external signing with using mobile signing api::itextsharp

2011-12-19 Thread Hasan Subasi
Hi, I reviewed the forum answers and generated a code as below. But the signed pdf gives an error while verification.Please show me what is wrong on that. I enclosed the out.pdf also.. ps: I have got the certificate after signing so i used that code sample getting from forum answers. Regards,