RE: [iText-questions] PdfImportPage Margins

2006-02-25 Thread Richard Braman
Leonardo Rosenthol wrote: >PDF pages have no such concept as a margin. I did a little reading after Carstens pointer to the AdobePress article on Itext. Good articles by the way. According to the 'Class Tour' section of that article, PDF pages do have a concept of a margin. Which sage is right?

RE: [iText-questions] iText is the exception to the rule

2006-02-25 Thread Richard Braman
>most open source software is utter crap - which is unfortunately true. This may well be the most rediculous thing I have ever seen written. Did you really just say that dude? What about Linux, Apache, Open Office, Eclipse, CVS, the list could go on for miles? Whoever wrote that article must hav

RE: [iText-questions] PdfImportPage Margins

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Braman
or at least the classes/methods to use for 1. iterating through all page objects 2. getting bounding box of objects 3. Getting area of pagebox. Or a link to a message someone who has posted this code before :-x Richard Braman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 561.748.4002 (voice)

RE: [iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF

2006-02-22 Thread Richard Braman
What class should I look at? -Original Message- From: Bruno Lowagie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF Richard Braman wrote: >I would like to add s

[iText-questions] RE: [PDFBox-user] Good reading/resarch on PDF text extraction

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Braman
f Of Ben Litchfield Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:27 PM To: Richard Braman Cc: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PDFBox-user] Good reading/resarch on PDF text extraction Richard, Are you saying you want to head this typ

RE: [PDFBox-user] Re: [iText-questions] Good reading/resarch on PDF text extraction

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Braman
PDFBox-user] Re: [iText-questions] Good reading/resarch on PDF text extraction At 10:36 AM 2/21/2006, Richard Braman wrote: >As more and more content gets "pushed" into PDF it looses its >meaning to anyone else other than a human reader or a printer. ONLY IF t

[iText-questions] Good reading/resarch on PDF text extraction

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Braman
Title: Message In 2003, Tamir Hassan wrote a OS program http://www.tamirhassan.com/ to extract text out of PDF tables and columns and put it into HTML as a part of a University research product.  His algorthims were actually quite sophisticated and well documented in http://www.tamirhassan.d

RE: [iText-questions] Downloading iText

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Braman
the main class. Program will exit. Thanks, Tim -Original Message- From: Richard Braman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 2:32 PM To: Tim Curry Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Downloading iText iText 1.3.6.jar is not a GUI, You add it to your Java Project and it

RE: [iText-questions] Problem when filling a form

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Braman
Nicolas, Even many of the commercial products have this problem. I was using ActivePDF a few months back and when you tried to fill in a form created by deginer, everything went bust. The easiest thing to do it to open the file in Acrobat 6.0, save it in that format, and then use iText to fill i

FW: [iText-questions] Downloading iText

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Braman
iText 1.3.6.jar is not a GUI, You add it to your Java Project and it functions as a library, which you can use to call all of the functions it supports. You don't have to comile it with ant, just download the jar to your favorite directory and include the jar as a library or reference in your p

RE: [iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Braman
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 4:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'iText Mail Group' Subject: Re: [iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF Richard Braman wrote: > I would appreciate anyones help ith coming up with code using iText, > JPedal, or PDFBox for parsin

[iText-questions] FW: More on extracting content from PDF

2006-02-19 Thread Richard Braman
Title: Message Thanks to IText/Jpedal, my conversion project is getting a good start, I have used the code provided by Bruno to get me going to parse the fill in forms and Pub 1346 and my thanks goes out to him, as well as Bill Ensley for giving me some tips on JPedal imaging and Mark Storer

RE: [iText-questions] Using Itext to create Thumbnails of PDFS

2006-02-15 Thread Richard Braman
ting-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Richard BramanSent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:54 AMTo: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: FW: [iText-questions] Using Itext to create Thumbnails of PDFS-Original Message-From:

FW: [iText-questions] Using Itext to create Thumbnails of PDFS

2006-02-15 Thread Richard Braman
-Original Message- From: Richard Braman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:52 PM To: 'Leonard Rosenthol' Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Using Itext to create Thumbnails of PDFS Thanks Leaonard for the help. I am bootstrapping for the moment, so

RE: [iText-questions] Using Itext to create Thumbnails of PDFS

2006-02-15 Thread Richard Braman
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard Rosenthol Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Reading and Extracting Text from PDF At 05:39 PM 2/14/2006, Richard Braman wrote: >I have a

RE: [iText-questions] Reading and Extracting Text from PDF

2006-02-15 Thread Richard Braman
ruary 15, 2006 2:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Reading and Extracting Text from PDF Richard Braman wrote: >My guess is that >there is a way to interate thorugh the dictionary and get what I want >(like Bruno showe

[iText-questions] Reading and Extracting Text from PDF

2006-02-14 Thread Richard Braman
contained in IRS fill-in forms. Richard Braman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 561.748.4002 (voice) http://www.taxcodesoftware.org Free Open Source Tax Software --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for

RE: [iText-questions] Reading and Extracting Text from PDF

2006-02-14 Thread Richard Braman
)Tj ET -Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Braman Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:35 PM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [iText-questions] Reading and Extracting Text from PDF I have a open source project that

[iText-questions] Reading and Extracting Text from PDF

2006-02-14 Thread Richard Braman
contained in IRS fill-in forms. Richard Braman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 561.748.4002 (voice) http://www.taxcodesoftware.org Free Open Source Tax Software --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for

[iText-questions] Extracting form field meta data

2006-02-09 Thread Richard Braman
Title: Message I am trying to extract form field meta data out of a PDF form that uses FDF.   I dont want the data, ie what the user filled in   I want the data about the fields on the form including:   name of field type of field (textbox, checkbox, etc) location of field (rectangle) fon

[iText-questions] Grainy images

2006-02-09 Thread Richard Braman
Title: Message SOme of the user (Bill ensley) pointed to Jpedal as a good library for extracting images PDFs.  I managed to get my page xtracted as an image, but when it came out it was clear but has this strange background "fuzz"  I was wondering if any of you had any idea.  here is my java

[iText-questions] Generate PNG of PDF page

2006-01-27 Thread Richard Braman
Title: Message I ham trying to generate png images with 150% zoom for each page in a given form, whihc I have done using Acrobat SDK but want to do with itext.   I am using the dot net port of iText with c#.  I am new to parsing pdfs with iText, allthough I know that I should have to do the

[iText-questions] Generate PNG of PDF page

2006-01-27 Thread Richard Braman
Title: Message I am trying to generate png images with 150% zoom for each page in a given form, whihc I have done using Acrobat SDK but want to do with itext.   I am using the dot net port of iText with c#.  I am new to parsing pdfs with iText, allthough I know that I should have to do the f