Re: [iText-questions] iText and AcroForms

2006-05-03 Thread Rakesh Patel
or other AppServers. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rakesh Patel Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 9:11 AM To: iText Subject: [iText-questions] iText and AcroForms Hi all, trying to put it all the pieces together and generate pdfs in my web

[iText-questions] iText and AcroForms

2006-05-03 Thread Rakesh Patel
Hi all, trying to put it all the pieces together and generate pdfs in my web app but have run into some issues: 1. Inserting text into the pdf works but setting the checkboxes doesn't. I found a forum entry saying to set the checkbox to "1". Here's what I'm doing: form.setField("Frau", "1"

Re: [iText-questions] Clarification of usage

2006-04-26 Thread Rakesh Patel
that text with PdfStamper. Paulo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rakesh Patel Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:18 AM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Clarification of usage does that mean its not viab

[iText-questions] Confusing classes

2006-04-26 Thread Rakesh Patel
Hi, so far I have been using what i thought was non-specific classes for document generation and then later defining that the doc should be a pdf. From a design perspective this seemed cleaner. However, not all the methods are available at this level. Specifically I cannot set the padding on

Re: [iText-questions] Clarification of usage

2006-04-26 Thread Rakesh Patel
does that mean its not viable? How would i work out where to put the text in a plain pdf? Paulo Soares wrote: It will work with any PDF but the advantage of AcroForms is knowing were to write the new text. Paulo - Original Message - From: "rakesh mailgroups" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: [iText-questions] Question about fonts

2006-04-25 Thread Rakesh Patel
) { mapper.insertDirectory(userdir + "\\fonts"); } It's something like that, Regards, Rakesh Patel wrote: Hi, I'm new to iText so please forgive my question if its obvious. I am developing a pdf that needs to use Arial font. I saw previous postings about finding t

[iText-questions] Question about fonts

2006-04-25 Thread Rakesh Patel
Hi, I'm new to iText so please forgive my question if its obvious. I am developing a pdf that needs to use Arial font. I saw previous postings about finding the ttf file and registering it. However, my app runs on both windows and unix so hard coding a directory path is not easy. Has anyone

Re: [iText-questions] Broken link in tutorial

2006-04-25 Thread Rakesh Patel
also, the download on page:http://www.lowagie.com/iText/download.html for the jar file downloads a corrupt file. CVS was also down when i tried earlier. Cheers Rakesh bruno wrote: Jan Nemec wrote: Hi, i'd like to report a broken link in your tutorial. Thanks! It's fixed now. br, Brun

[iText-questions] Newbie questions

2006-04-23 Thread Rakesh Patel
Hi there, been looking at iText for autogenerating pdf forms for my web app. It looks like an excellent fit. I have manage to get a sample going but i had some general questions about using iText: 1. Is putting content in tables the preferred way to align data? ie just like using html tables