Re: [iText-questions] extract Text from PdfPTable, Cell, Row, Column, ...

2010-09-10 Thread fhomasp
nt. If you go through > ColumnText.goComposite(), you might be able to find a way to trick it > into calling writeSelected rows for each row, thus giving you what > you're after. > > Good hunting. > > --Mark Storer > Senior Software Engineer > Cardiff.com > &

[iText-questions] extract Text from PdfPTable, Cell, Row, Column, ...

2010-09-09 Thread fhomasp
Hey, I've got another unusual question... I've been asked to extract content from a PdfPTable when it's being written. The problem with that is that the objects representing the original data have been garbage collected. So the only objects left to retrieve the data that is being written is th

Re: [iText-questions] PdfContentByteInst.addImage messes up jpg

2010-08-20 Thread fhomasp
Right.. I have "a" solution although I'm unsure wheather it's good enough, perhaps you do know :-) Image image = Image.getInstance(url); if(image.isJpeg()){ if (image.hasICCProfile()) { PdfICCBased icc =

Re: [iText-questions] PdfContentByteInst.addImage messes up jpg

2010-08-20 Thread fhomasp
I suspect you have a RGB image with a CMYK color profile, the profile must > match the bytes in the image otherwise you'll have the "insufficient data" > error. Have a look at > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/52049/. > > Paulo > -

[iText-questions] PdfContentByteInst.addImage messes up jpg

2010-08-20 Thread fhomasp
Hey, I seem to have stumbled upon this peculiar problem and eventhough this might easy be a java.awt problem, I am using iText to add pictures and I notice this to be a blocking problem in my project. An image gets placed on a pdfptable using a PdfPCellEvent subclass. The image has to have res

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-10 Thread fhomasp
Right, sorry.. I changed document.add(main); to main.writeSelectedRows(0,main.getRows().size(),0f,main.getTotalHeight(),canvas); cheers ;-) -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/PdfPTable-padding-and-spacing-tp2248510p2250062.html Sent from the iText - G

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
Fair enough, and I'll keep that in mind for next time :-) int value would not have been okay. I get the interval sizes in mm, which needs to be converted to points. And it has to be exact. Oh, Off topic. Watch "Oog in oog" tonight, I'll be there asking a question ^^ -- View this message in c

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
That seems to have done the trick indeed. It's actually all I needed. Here's an example of my output.. Perhaps it'll be more clear as to why I chose to use PfdPTables. http://rapidshare.com/files/397335667/out.rar.html Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
> I've done a similar assignment for "De Persgroep". > It took me less than 2 days ;-) > The code is used in several magazines and in HLN. Linkedin rules? :-) I've been here at this project for one week and a half. The code I have now was finished in one week, except for this problem I'm havin

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
And of course I mean TableInstance.getTotalHeight(); -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/PdfPTable-padding-and-spacing-tp2248510p2248902.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
As addition... Everything works except for the occasional glitch of the size of the table. Somehow when the document is being made the table appears to be larger than it said itself (table.getTotalSize). But that's one my assumptions, I learned not to go too much on those. My problem seems to

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
The document needs to be printed in a newspaper. The maximum is the largest size of the page of the newspaper. The other intervals are the lengths given to me where the document can be cut. So if I have a resulting table of 5cm and the interval is 80mm I need to fill the rest up with whitespace

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
Excuse me but I did the effort of building a JUnit test to show the problem. If you had simply attempted to run it, which takes about 5 secs you would easily have seen what I meant, no offense. But I'll explain in detail. The output document needs to be of a fixed height interval, depending on

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
This is my new cell config: private void applyDefaultCellProps(PdfPCell cell){ cell.setBorder(PdfPCell.NO_BORDER); cell.enableBorderSide(Rectangle.LEFT); cell.enableBorderSide(Rectangle.RIGHT); cell.setPadding(5); cell.setPaddingTop(0); cell.setPad

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
Sorry... I must have missed the ascender descender thing. I'll give that a shot now. But still. A tables size is its size, right? ascending or descending, should it really matter when cutting the document to the size of the table? Really, forgive me for being ignorant but all I can do is ask.

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
For clarification, here's the whole testcase again: As you can see I'm not using negative values anymore for the padding, just the textspacing. The document is still cut wrongly. @Test public void testSizeBug() throws DocumentException, FileNotFoundException { PdfPTable main = new P

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
Well.. It seems that the padding isn't really fixing all of the document cutting problems. These are my cell settings now: private void applyDefaultCellProps(PdfPCell cell){ cell.setBorder(PdfPCell.NO_BORDER); cell.enableBorderSide(Rectangle.LEFT); cell.enableBorderSide(

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
Yes well.. I was attempting to avoid having to know which cell is the first in a bunch. The ad documents contain several headers so there are several first cells. But ok, I'll go about it this way. I do still think the cutting of the document, even when using contradicting padding values and s

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
I need a bit of padding on the bottom of the cells. If I set for example: cell.setPadding(5); cell.setPaddingTop(0); cell.setPaddingBottom(4); Then the space between the cells is still too large. And I do need bottom padding (sounds like fun) otherwise the text in the cell is placed exactly o

Re: [iText-questions] Paragraph negative spacing weirdnessinPdfPTables

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
You're making a habit of answering every thread with a new thread? Not that i'm innocent, far from it but it's the 2nd time you've done this. Right so the use of the tables defaultcell seems to work, partly. There still is whitespace between the left and right borders. I need the whole table t

[iText-questions] PdfPTable padding and spacing

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
Hey, First of all, sorry for the double post but I do need the advice and I do realize that the initial thread got started off on the wrong foot. I made a unit test to show how I encounter the problem. Note that the whole document is cut of exactly at the end of the table, so the table should al

Re: [iText-questions] Paragraph negative spacing weirdness inPdfPTables

2010-06-09 Thread fhomasp
I think it's better to keep everything in one topic? http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Paragraph-negative-spacing-weirdness-in-PdfPTables-td2245863.html#a2245863 How would one remove borders from tables? One can only modify borders in cells using setBorder(int) -- View this message in

Re: [iText-questions] Paragraph negative spacing weirdness in PdfPTables

2010-06-08 Thread fhomasp
I found that disabling the line: " cell.setPaddingTop(-3); " resolves the issue, but then the padding at the top is too high for me. Moreover... I wanted to do the counting of the cellheight to an actual Element being used directly in the main table, so initially I added the PdfPCells to a sub

Re: [iText-questions] Paragraph negative spacing weirdness in PdfPTables

2010-06-08 Thread fhomasp
I realize it must be difficult to reproduce. So I made a JUnit test at home which demonstrates the problem (if it is a problem but I assume so) Please note the line: par2.setSpacingAfter(-1.2f); If one adjusts this to setSpacingAfter(0f); then the tablesize is cut correctly. Now it is spanned o

[iText-questions] Paragraph negative spacing weirdness in PdfPTables

2010-06-07 Thread fhomasp
Hey, I seem to be having another issue using PdfPTables. As always I might just be doing something wrong, we'll see. I'm building a list with PdfPCells which are added to a table as long as the table has enough space. The max space of the table is the max size of the whole document. So basica

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable in PdfPTable border troubles

2010-06-02 Thread fhomasp
addition: I need to calculate the length because if the ladder is too small it needs to be cut off at a certain height. And on the other hand, if it is too large I need to make a 2nd pdf which will include the image (header and footer), the textheader and the last subheader and then the remainin

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable in PdfPTable border troubles

2010-06-02 Thread fhomasp
Yep, that's true sorry 'bout that. The first method adds PdfPTables (with cells) to a list, the 2nd is a convenience method to create the main and dummy table. The last adds the common params to the PdfPCells. All I know is when I stopped using tables as element in a table that my problem went

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable in PdfPTable border troubles

2010-06-02 Thread fhomasp
At any rate... I was using the embedded tables to be able to calculate the height of a cell. Now I created dummy PdfPTables with the same width as the main table, add the cell, get the totalsize from the dummy table and discard it. Now the border problem is also gone. I would however still l

[iText-questions] PdfPTable in PdfPTable border troubles

2010-06-02 Thread fhomasp
Hey, I can't seem to get rid of borders when I use a PdfPTable in a PdfPTable. All cells are set to have no border (cell.setBorder(0)) and this works if I add the cell to a table. But when I add that table to another table it suddenly has, even if all of the tables have their defaultcell set to

Re: [iText-questions] iText 5.0.1 for Maven

2010-05-26 Thread fhomasp
I added the itext repo and the dependency, yet I get this: Unable to get resource 'com.itextpdf:itextpdf:jar:5.0.2' from repository itextpdf.com (http://maven.itextpdf.com): Error retrieving checksum file for com/itextpdf/itextpdf/5.0.2/itextpdf-5.0.2.jar I was thinking about getting 2.1.7 --

Re: [iText-questions] Unable to validate eID signature through iText

2008-10-17 Thread Fhomasp
Some new issues have come to light. I strongly feel the need to post this. I was searching for a way to check Revocation lists programatically, with changing success. Eventually my eye fell on OCSP, as the Belgian Government provides an OCSP Server, so all I needed to do was write a client. Th

Re: [iText-questions] Unable to validate eID signature through iText

2008-10-09 Thread Fhomasp
key); this.voornamen = subjectList.get(0); break; } default: break; } } } Fhomasp wrote: > > Hey all.. > > So I've been able to place an eID signature on a PDF document. But no > matter w

[iText-questions] Unable to validate eID signature through iText

2008-10-07 Thread Fhomasp
Hey all.. So I've been able to place an eID signature on a PDF document. But no matter which certificate I try I cannot seem to validate the signature programatically. Something in the code must be off because using the GoDot test script that comes with its source code the self-signed signature

[iText-questions] AcroFieldsInstance.verifySignature(name) Exception

2008-10-05 Thread Fhomasp
Hey, I've been programmatically signing PDF documents, which is working ok as of today. So I attempted to get the signing info from a document and verifying it following Chapter 16 page 530 in the iText book. I used a .be eID sample card from Certipost. The signing example in the book works wel

Re: [iText-questions] eID external signature "/content didn't reserve space in preClose()"

2008-09-26 Thread Fhomasp
onary(); dic.put(PdfName.CONTENTS,new PdfString(sig.getEncodedPKCS1()).setHexWriting(true)); sap.close(dic); Fhomasp wrote: > > Once again I was too hasty. > > I made a typo in the one of the last lines... > PdfName.CONTENT should be PdfName.CONTENTS.

Re: [iText-questions] eID external signature "/content didn't reserve space in preClose()"

2008-09-26 Thread Fhomasp
Once again I was too hasty. I made a typo in the one of the last lines... PdfName.CONTENT should be PdfName.CONTENTS. That's code completion for you :) Cheers, Thomas Fhomasp wrote: > > Hey, > > Using a sample eID card from Certipost I'm attempting to sign PDF >

[iText-questions] eID external signature "/content didn't reserve space in preClose()"

2008-09-26 Thread Fhomasp
Hey, Using a sample eID card from Certipost I'm attempting to sign PDF documents. I'm using the example from the book. However I keep getting this exception, no matter what kind of document I'm using. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The key /Content didn't reserve space in preClose().

Re: [iText-questions] Proble HTML to PDF with iText

2008-07-11 Thread Fhomasp
For HTML to PDF conversion you should take a look at the flying saucer project. https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/ It uses iText as main framework for this kind of thing. It works best with xhtml though. Howard Shank wrote: > > What version of iText are you using? > > Howard Shank > > >

Re: [iText-questions] Combobox printed, prints undesired value

2008-06-30 Thread Fhomasp
rs him ;-) wasegraves wrote: > > -- Original message ------ > From: Fhomasp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> When calling the method using an extra "" in the vararg works. Although >> it >> does seem more like a worka

Re: [iText-questions] Combobox printed, prints undesired value

2008-06-27 Thread Fhomasp
he user is limited to the choices I provide. But I guess it'll have to do. Thanks m8. I'll see about that donation ;-) wasegraves wrote: > > -- Original message ------ > From: Fhomasp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> What do y

Re: [iText-questions] Combobox printed, prints undesired value

2008-06-27 Thread Fhomasp
the PDF viewer/printer to render the combo box for you, expecting >the iText has some magical powers over viewers/printers. I really don't understand.. I'm not expecting anything out of the ordinary really. wasegraves wrote: > > -- Original message --

[iText-questions] Combobox printed, prints undesired value

2008-06-27 Thread Fhomasp
Hey, My document is getting in the final stages and I'm pretty happy with the result. Lots of code though for a 5 paged document. But now that I am testing the document I encountered a problem when printing the document, more specifially with comboboxes. When I open the generated document ever

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable does not show if nested

2008-06-20 Thread Fhomasp
I found what happened. I define a new Table which exists with 2 columns. If I never add something to the 2nd column, the first will never get drawn. Maybe an exception could be thrown there in the future? Or maybe not, what do I know ^^ ;) Fhomasp wrote: > > I'm pretty sure t

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable does not show if nested

2008-06-20 Thread Fhomasp
uot; never gets called. Normally it gets called when it is added to the document, right? Or at least that's what happens when I debug while I added the supposed nested table directly to the document. 1T3XT info wrote: > > Fhomasp wrote: >> I'm not really seeing what I

[iText-questions] PdfPTable does not show if nested

2008-06-20 Thread Fhomasp
Hey again. I have been trying to get a nested table to show in a document. The idea is for having multiple checkboxes in the nested table. The idea is for a header to be set on the nested table with a bunch of checkboxes, each below the other. I'm not really seeing what I'm doing wrong. If I

Re: [iText-questions] PdfPTable TextField in PdfPCell: questions

2008-06-19 Thread Fhomasp
the field. Thanks already :) Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote: > > Fhomasp wrote: >> Because the TextFields are wrapped in a PdfPCell the font set in the >> TextField doesn't get through. The font is adjusted by the height of the >> cell. For regular fields this is

[iText-questions] PdfPTable TextField in PdfPCell: questions

2008-06-18 Thread Fhomasp
Hey, I need my PDF document to contain several tables. The purpose of the table is for the client to write text in the TextFields and for us to gather the written text in the TextField. All is going rather well except for the following problems. I'll include an image as reference as well as the

Re: [iText-questions] Save typed-in content with Adobe Reader

2008-05-16 Thread Fhomasp
Hey, I learned a few things, one of them being to first check this thread again before giving it all another go :) I noticed that I broke the form by defaultishly opening and filling the document. Something I would have read if I had checked this thread again. My mailbox didn't get updated on n

Re: [iText-questions] Save typed-in content with Adobe Reader

2008-05-15 Thread Fhomasp
Right, thanks for clearing that up. So after creating the AcroForm template, which I can do programatically or by any other means, it doesn't really matter. Perhaps creating it programatically is the best solution because I can name the fields myself and be able to recognize them better. I do h

Re: [iText-questions] Save typed-in content with Adobe Reader

2008-05-15 Thread Fhomasp
Thank you all for the quick responses. I'll clarify the situation. Somehow I need to figure out a solution for the following situation. A User who requires assistance needs to fill in a form but is unsure of all of the required information. For this matter there is an online form which will a

[iText-questions] Save typed-in content with Adobe Reader

2008-05-15 Thread Fhomasp
Hey, I built a DocumentBuilder which builds Pdf Documents using iText. My idea was to couple setter fields from a Bean receiving form data from a JSF page to the documentbuilder class. This allows me to dynamically produce Pdf files, however one of the requirements is for the user to fill in mi