Re: [iText-questions] Anyone else notice the large decline in questions

2007-07-31 Thread Udo Rader
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 08:46 -0600, David Thielen wrote: > I think the iText book has drastically reduced the volume of questions > here. /me thinks this is a M$ conspiracy trying to convert everybody to the evil EMF format (AKA codename "summer slump" ;-) -- Udo Rader bes

Re: [iText-questions] PostScript better than iText PDF? iText breaks versioned software?

2007-04-26 Thread Udo Rader
nd recent versions of jasper don't have this issue any more. I have the suspicion that your interviewer is mixing things up ... -- Udo Rader bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part --

Re: [iText-questions] Text not showing up on mac

2007-04-16 Thread Udo Rader
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 15:31 +, Alexander Anikul wrote: > My pdf's show up on Linux and print fine as well. However, on the mac, no text > shows up at all. Any ideas? Thanks for your help :) are the used fonts embedded or available on all involved platforms? -- Udo Rader bestsolu

Re: [iText-questions] Remove me from mailing list

2007-03-09 Thread Udo Rader
lp: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Subscribe: > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions>, > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Udo Rader bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: [iText-questions] Multiple line text in TextField

2007-02-19 Thread Udo Rader
E ); you should really read the documentation & tutorial. -- Udo Rader bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part - Take Surve

Re: [iText-questions] modifying a PDF with interactive elements in it

2007-02-15 Thread Udo Rader
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:04 +0100, Bruno Lowagie wrote: > Udo Rader wrote: > > hi, > > > > I am trying to modify (not edit) an existing PDF by adding some layers > > and some actions. > > As far as I know this isn't supported yet. > I reorganized the cod

[iText-questions] modifying a PDF with interactive elements in it

2007-02-15 Thread Udo Rader
); PdfTemplate contents = cb.createTemplate( 500, 800 ); contents.addTemplate( writer.getImportedPage( base, 1 ), 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0 ); contents.setLayer( layer ); cb.addTemplate( contents, 0, 0 ); [...] // more layers added later on ... -CUT any ideas appreciated :-) -- Udo R

Re: [iText-questions] JSP PAGE GENERATION ERROR

2007-02-07 Thread Udo Rader
ress field and then save the link manually. If browsers make a difference, I can think about some javascript in action that misbehaves under IE at the first run. If you use javascript, you should probably also check this possibility. -- Udo Rader bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bes

Re: [iText-questions] JSP PAGE GENERATION ERROR

2007-02-07 Thread Udo Rader
). I bet that at the end of the file you will find some java exception. AND PLEASE DON'T WRITE UPPERCASE SUBJECTS IT MAKES THEM HARD TO READ. -- Udo Rader bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [iText-questions] Itext for Word Document from JSP Web application

2007-02-06 Thread Udo Rader
en better http://www.joeschmidt.com/img/211820.jpg ... could not resist, sorry :-) -- Udo Rader bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sign

Re: [iText-questions] my kid nominated for a movie award

2007-01-26 Thread Udo Rader
) and select 5 stars (preferably ;-) ) Hehe, although this seems a "little bit" unfair to the other participants, your son got my 5 votes :-) Good to see that there are "real" people with "real" families beh

Re: [iText-questions] tool to design acroforms

2006-09-28 Thread Udo Rader
/sf/projects/ireport (and itext of course). It is already used in production but does not yet cover all types of form elements (such as dropdowns). If you would like to try it, just drop me a note. Regards Udo Rader -- B e s t S o l u t i o n . a tEDV Sys

Re: [iText-questions] [Bruno Lowagie] images going blank

2006-08-21 Thread Udo Rader
ur own code is faulty :-) Udo Rader -- BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to suppo

Re: [iText-questions] OpenSource printing lib?

2006-05-11 Thread Udo Rader
ther opensource lib that can print PDFs and > supports transparent fonts? http://ghostscript.com see also this thread: http://www.javaworld.com/javaforums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=DeviceProgramming&Number=3221&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1 Udo Rader --

Re: [iText-questions] Silent Printing of PDF

2006-05-05 Thread Udo Rader
I want to avoid. > > I just want my pdf to get directly printed on the printer without > opening the reader. depending on your OS, this might work: % lpr thedocument.pdf but you need to be more specific about your environment. Udo Rader -- BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH ht

RE: [iText-questions] WordprocessingML to iText XML

2006-04-18 Thread Udo Rader
OOX causes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_vs._Microsoft_Office_Open_XML_licensing Most importantly, you (probably) cannot use the MOOX schemas with software governed by the GPL. AFAIK, the PDF license is GPL compliant however, but I am not patent expert (and this is becoming off top

Re: [iText-questions] WordprocessingML to iText XML

2006-04-18 Thread Udo Rader
s still ongoing). regards Udo Rader -- bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [iText-questions] PDF File HashCode & Writing a PDF file to a DB

2006-02-28 Thread Udo Rader
values for exactly the same document and in general cannot be reliably used to compare stateless stuff. There are many implementations around for producing MD5 and similar checksums (eg. the gnu crypto libs). regards Udo Rader -- bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2006-02-20 Thread Udo Rader
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 11:51 +0100, Bruno Lowagie wrote: > Udo Rader wrote: > > > Can't you simply use a formula to calculate the values? Might be a lot > > easier than to extract data from a PDF ... > > That's also my idea. > Also I get the impression we ar

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

2006-02-20 Thread Udo Rader
ou simply use a formula to calculate the values? Might be a lot easier than to extract data from a PDF ... Udo Rader -- BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [iText-questions] OutOfMemory problem during TIFF conversion

2006-02-14 Thread Udo Rader
ava interface is here as well: http://www.yeo.id.au/jmagick/ -- B e s t S o l u t i o n . a tEDV Systemhaus GmbH ---- udo rader technischer leiter/CTO mobile ++43 660 5263642 ---

Re: [iText-questions] TextField.REQUIRED not working most of the time

2006-02-11 Thread Udo Rader
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 22:22 +, Paulo Soares wrote: > It's the viewer that does the submission, not iText. *g*, yes, that's quite obvious :-) Yet, it could also be that either I don't set the flag correctly or even worse that itext produces bad PDF :-) regards Udo Rader -

[iText-questions] TextField.REQUIRED not working most of the time

2006-02-11 Thread Udo Rader
-- TextField tField = new TextField( pdfWriter_, new Rectangle(llx, lly, rux, ruy), fieldname ); tField.setText( content ); tField.setOptions( TextField.REQUIRED ); pdfWriter_.addAnnotation( tField.getTextField() ); --CUT-- Am I missing something

[iText-questions] inconsistency documentation vs. class

2006-02-11 Thread Udo Rader
here is no PushbuttonField.getButton() method, instead there is PushbuttonField.getField(). just a minor thing, but ... regards Udo Rader -- BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

RE: [iText-questions] Problem with hidden fields

2006-02-09 Thread Udo Rader
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 16:50 +, Paulo Soares wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Udo Rader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 4:42 PM > > To: Paulo Soares > > Cc: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subj

RE: [iText-questions] Problem with hidden fields

2006-02-09 Thread Udo Rader
Thanks, that solved it. But does this mean that the addHiddenField is actually useless if one wants to submit the form data? Udo Rader On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 15:51 +, Paulo Soares wrote: > Use a hidden text field. -- bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution

[iText-questions] Problem with hidden fields

2006-02-09 Thread Udo Rader
itted doesn't contain neither the foo nor the bar value. If I comment out the addHiddenField, the "foo" field data is transmitted. So is this a bug or am I again missing something? Thanks in advance Udo Rader -- bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[iText-questions] pre submit checks

2006-02-09 Thread Udo Rader
); PdfAction some_action = PdfAction._javascript_( "app.alert('hello');", pdfWriter_ ); button.setAction( some_action ); button.setAdditionalActions( PdfName.SUBMITFORM, submit ); --CUT--- Now the alert shows up, but the form is not submitted. So what'

Re: [iText-questions] set file name for adobe acrobat reader

2006-02-07 Thread Udo Rader
sponse.setContentType("application/pdf"); response.setHeader( "Content-disposition", "attachment; filename= \"foo.pdf\""); regards Udo Rader -- BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [iText-questions] Detect PDF File

2006-02-02 Thread Udo Rader
e command available on many unixes: % file test.pdf test.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4 regards Udo Rader -- BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [iText-questions] validation via javascript

2006-02-01 Thread Udo Rader
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 21:04 +0100, Udo Rader wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to test the values of certain acroform fields using the AR built > in validation methods, such as AFDate_KeystrokeEx( someDateFormat ). > > What I've learned so far from reading Adobe's JS gu

[iText-questions] validation via javascript

2006-02-01 Thread Udo Rader
e_KeystrokeEx( 'dd-mmm-' )\" ) ;\r"; PdfAction validator = PdfAction._javascript_( datechecker, pdfWriter_ ); field.setAction( validator); ---CUT-- Yet the field is actually never validated, obviously the AFDate_KeystrokeEx method is never called. ... where am

Re: [iText-questions] support for "save file locally"

2006-01-31 Thread Udo Rader
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 02:36 +0100, Udo Rader wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:06 -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > > At 06:27 PM 1/31/2006, Udo Rader wrote: > > >1) can this flag be set with itext or > > > > No. > > > > > > >

Re: [iText-questions] support for "save file locally"

2006-01-31 Thread Udo Rader
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 02:36 +0100, Udo Rader wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:06 -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > > At 06:27 PM 1/31/2006, Udo Rader wrote: > > >1) can this flag be set with itext or > > > > No. > > > > > > >

Re: [iText-questions] support for "save file locally"

2006-01-31 Thread Udo Rader
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:06 -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > At 06:27 PM 1/31/2006, Udo Rader wrote: > >1) can this flag be set with itext or > > No. > > > >2) is there an alternative to reach my requirements? > > No. > > Adob

[iText-questions] support for "save file locally"

2006-01-31 Thread Udo Rader
ta with Adobe Reader. CUT So two questions: 1) can this flag be set with itext or 2) is there an alternative to reach my requirements? I've played with inserting js code to the PDF (eg. there is a document.saveAs method), but I failed so far. TIA Udo Rader -- BestSolution.at