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Someone just told me about this, so I thought I'd pass it along here as well..
Check out the new port of the open-source iText Java library to .NET:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/
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those fields can be either
PDDocEncoding OR Unicode, placing them into Unicode is completely
valid (though admittedly wastes space).
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At 10:17 AM -0300 3/18/03, Thiago Costa wrote:
Can i extract the plain text ?
No.
If you want text extraction or format conversion - check out
JPEDAL (http://www.jpedal.org).
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. I'm just
trying to be as OO as I can about this design. :)
Your idea is quite solid - but I don't see any need for
clipping paths to accomplish this.
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ohtml, Jade, Gemini,
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, but there are many utilities that can be used
to do modify PDF metadata in place.
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Info (http://www.appligent.com).
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e PDF
due to the way it currently works.
If you ONLY want to touch the metadata fields, then you'll
want/need a different tool.
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would involve a
complete rearchitecture of the PdfWriter or PdfStamper, so as to do
"object level copying w/o reading the tree into memory".
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tend to do is an
incremental update with the new Info, nothing fancy.
Incremental update would be a GREAT addition - not just for
the Info changes, but potentially for all PdfStamper() changes...
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7;t be possible, though.
True.
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int angle = 180;
double angleRad = Math.toRadians( (double)angle );
double cosRad = Math.cos( angleRad );
double sinRad = Math.sin( angleRad );
cb.concatCTM( cosRad, sinRad, -sinRad, cosRad, x, y );
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But as you point out, iText doesn't support any of them at
this time.
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both!
Can I set the metadata information about the pdf version?
Fiery would be ignoring that anyway.
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At 12:52 AM 3/25/2003 -0800, Huy Ho wrote:
Is there any way to convert from CGM to PDF. I really need it. Thanks
ImageMagick - http://www.imagemagick.org
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d the
accompanying plugin for Acrobat.
There are existing vendors such as FileOpen
(http://www.fileopen.com) that offer them.
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At 04:48 PM 3/31/2003 +0300, Eduardo Santilli wrote:
how can i open a pdf file that already exists?
See the PdfReader class.
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At 11:32 PM 4/1/2003 -0800, Huy Ho wrote:
Can you tell me where CGM->PDF library?
There are a bunch, depending on your OS platform of choice.
Do a search on Google for "CGM to PDF".
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are trying to merge a
PDF with a PDF - that won't work!
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At 09:21 AM 4/3/2003 -0700, David Thielen wrote:
Anyone
know how to get 114 to build?
It builds
just fine in Eclipse, which is my Java IDE of choice...
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PdfBox, extract the text, then check it. Both of
those products will handle your needs just fine...
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year or more with no noticable problems. We have
been using Reader 3 and 4 and Acrobat 4, but mostly
version 4 of each.
Acrobat 4 respects the NeedApperance key, Acrobat 5 does not (always).
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Whilst I am working with JPGs now,
JPEG is the only file format that is "native" in PDF - all others
have to undergo some form of transformation...
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e way to do it, but sure...
1.Read a PDF
2.Embed fonts
3.Send it to client
Is it possible ? If so, how ?
The only tool that I know of that can do this is PitStop Server
(http://www.enfocus.com)
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6.0, the submit button is disabled as well.
This is a known bug in Acrobat Reader 6.
Until an update from Adobe is available, you can NOT submit from
secured PDF's :(.
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or File IO is the only solution?
Sure, you can use memory buffers instead of files if you wish...
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Times/TimesNewRoman from the operating system.
As such, Acrobat 6 will always embed them as well as you other
fonts - and iText should consider doing the same...
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iText, but
it's coming along a bit more slowly than I'd like :(.
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SS into
a TagMap object.
I've been thinking about CSS stuff - but for a future project...
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close as a Java-based solution
would be the commercial version of JPEDAL (http://www.jpedal.org).
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ype was an unfortunate
security hole introduced during the 5.0 development cycle and removed
during 6.0.
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hould!
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etc. I HIGHLY recommend you look at those instead.
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At 12:41 PM +0200 7/10/03, Carmona Perez, David wrote:
Does anyone know if the page size of a PDF file has to be the same
throughout the whole file?
No it does not. You can happily mix page sizes...
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s the Java VM.
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At 4:47 PM -0600 7/10/03, David Thielen wrote:
How do I set the security in the pdf document (can print, can copy, etc.)?
Look at the encrypt_pdf.java example.
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JavaScript guide. It can also be downloaded
from Adobe's PDF Site at
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/acrobatsdks.jsp.
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pages.
Create the additional pages as a new PDF (in memory even), and
then concat them into the final document like any other PDF...
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, there are products on the market that will
do that job for you MUCH more efficiently and with better results than
iText. Try solutions such as AppendPro (http://www.appligent.com).
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ormat, but produce the same visible results.
Is it possible to compare two files with iText?
No.
The only thing that attempts this is Adobe Acrobat...
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due to rounding...
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i.e. text and structure.
The only CORRECT way to do that is to do extremely low level
PDF analysis...
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Also make sure that you have the latest version of the driver for
your printer.
Using older versions of software is always a good cause for failure...
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eader in this case) and the printer driver based on the original content
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to both get & set the page
size.
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r actually tested it - OOPS!
I guess I need to implement that as well, eh???
Any reason I shouldn't go down this path??
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I've got a problem with opening my Pdf on a Macintosh.
What version of Mac OS?
What version of Adobe Acrobat?
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n for preservation?
Not unless you want to write the lower level code to iText to add it.
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enabled
in the Acrobat print dialog!! That's the usual cause here...
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there.
With PS/PDF, you shouldn't close the shape yourself - you are
better off doing a "close and stroke" and letting the renderer do it
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lse has an idea??
What type of printer (raster, PCL, PS)? What OS Platform? Is
the printer driver current?
What version of Acrobat are ytou using to print from?
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, and so forth &
methods?
You can't.
iText doesn't support that.
If you want Word->PDF conversion, look at products such as
DocConverter & AdLib eXpress.
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latest Acrobat 6? Have you verified that
the printer drivers for each printer is current? Have you verified
that each system is using the same Print configuration?
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At 3:40 PM -0500 7/24/03, Jaladurgam, Ramana wrote:
Is there a possibility to get ruler in Acrobat Reader.
If not Reader, is there any software that provides.
In Reader, no.
In FULL Acrobat, yes.
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past, the user checked that
box. That is a USER option can NOT be set by a PDF...
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action...Quite easy to setup using Adobe
Acrobat itself...
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Correct. Unless you do a closePath(), Acrobat won't join the
first and last segment - it considers it as an open path.
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is NOT POSSIBLE
with iText " but then there is the method getAcroForm() in PdfReader...) Can
I i any way use the getAcroForm() and then add it to my new PdfDocument in
som way?
Yes - form fields aren't content...
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hints would be appreciated.
There is no support currently in iText for structure/tagging of PDFs.
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isn't supported in Reader - only in
"Full", Standard and Professional. And may be turned off by users.
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a C-based
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ssing "piece x of y" field
* Flatten the PDF file (in memory!)
* Place the newly flattened PDF onto the output page.
- Repeat above steps once per piece...
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each image ICC with image.tagICC do the same?
I don't know that that function does, so I can't comment.
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copy everything including
form fields?
Yes. Look at CopyPDF.java instead.
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