[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2008-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
no. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129964#4129964 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4129964 ___ jboss-user mailing list jboss-user@lists.jboss.org

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2008-02-16 Thread elponderador
I appreciate that since I did mention a jira issue, but the jira issue is a actually a feature addition based off code I am contributing, does that also fall under the need for a contributors agreement? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129844#41

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2008-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Btw you don't need to sign a contributor agreement to submit patches. Only for those who have commit access. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129829#4129829 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2008-02-14 Thread elponderador
I got the approval email for my contributor agreement. I have also put in some jars, an example war and source code attached to the jira issue. Let me know if you need anything else to begin reviewing and/or incorporating any of it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?modul

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2008-02-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you send me your information by email, I'll inquire with the labs guys. It should definitely NOT take anywhere near that long to get going. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4128475#4128475 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2008-02-11 Thread elponderador
Hey, not sure really who to ask, but I guess I won't be able to much contributing till my agreement is approved, any idea how long that takes? I put one in about 2 months ago, and another request like 2 weeks ago, and still no response... anyways. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2008-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You need to be logged in to JIRA using your jboss.com username, and then click create issue. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122976#4122976 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4122976 _

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2008-01-23 Thread elponderador
Excuse my ignorance, but I don't appear to be able to add JIRA issues or simply do not know how. Maybe it relies on my contributors agreement being approved. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122823#4122823 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.c

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2008-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please open a JIRA issue for the changes. I have no problem including this type of functionality. Thanks! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122816#4122816 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=41

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2008-01-23 Thread elponderador
I agree with the templates idea, a case where you have forms provided to you or you create one and then need to fill it in, to save the user time. I am not sure about overlays, but I have built a component set based off of the ITextComponent class that uses the PdfContentByte more extensivly. I

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-02-15 Thread spambob
Hi Norman, I just wanted to ask if there's any progress on the control where & how the text is placed ? I.e. 5 inch from above, 3 inch from the left in 12 point verdana with a max with of 6 inch - like I requested on the previous side (you probably get the idea). View the original post : htt

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-02-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It appears there are some problems. I'm not sure if it is out fault or iText's fault yet. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4016852#4016852 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4016852 __

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-02-14 Thread owen_yao
Does current version support I18n? it seem the character except english can't be displayed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4016845#4016845 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4016845 __

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-29 Thread venkateshbr
i agree. one option is to download the pdf and sign it using some tools. The other option is to sign the pdf using an applet reading the client keystore. The reason i say client is in an e-biz transaction b/w a buyer and a supplier the document is always signed using the key of the buyer and s

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You want the CLIENT to sign the PDF? That doesn't really make sense to me - you'll have to explain a bit more. Why wouldn't the user just download the PDF and sign it with his tools? (we could support leaving a blank signature field for that) If the users signature is to have any validity,

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-29 Thread venkateshbr
hi norman, had a look at the digital signature stuff in CVS. most of the basic features are covered. one thing i noticed is getting a keystore from external context.getResourceAsStream. This is good enough for certificates lying in the keystore and keystore itself present under externalcontext

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've added some very basic signature support in CVS. I'm quite comfortable with the crypto side of things, so I won't have any problem fixing that up. However, I'm not entirely clear what the normal use cases for signed PDFs would be.I've never seen a signed PDF in the wild. I'd appreciat

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-26 Thread rbz285
thanks, works well for me View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4006735#4006735 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4006735 ___ jboss-user mailing list jboss

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just as an update, I've add p:text, which allows the use of a converter on a field. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4006549#4006549 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4006549 _

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-24 Thread spambob
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote : Just to make sure I am hearing you correctly - you want to take an existing PDF document and define precise rectangles over it in which seam should generate a page overlay, essentially "filling in" the document? Exactly! This way I could create a PDF Template with Acr

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I was first doing the headers, I tried to use newPage to increment the page count and apply the headers, but I wasn't able to make it work. Putting it before document.open() does work. I'll see what I can do. I might need to move header and footer into facets. I'm probably going to re

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-24 Thread rbz285
thanks There's a comment at the top of the javadoc for the lowagie Document class (I saw it at http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/com/lowagie/text/Document.html) anonymous wrote : When you change the header/footer on a certain page, this will be effective starting on the next page. and the example

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know how to get headers and footers on the first page. iText doesn't seem to support it, but I may just not know the magic incantation. I w I'm adding error code for the missing PDF case as we speak. For things like the missing valuebindings, please just open JIRA issues so they don't

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know how to get headers and footers on the first page. iText doesn't seem to support it, but I may just not know the magic incantation. I w I'm adding error code for the missing PDF case as we speak. For things like the missing valuebindings, please just open JIRA issues so they don't

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know how to get headers and footers on the first page. iText doesn't seem to support it, but I may just not know the magic incantation. I w I'm adding error code for the missing PDF case as we speak. For things like the missing valuebindings, please just open JIRA issues so they don't

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-24 Thread rbz285
I've tried out the latest (3 hours ago) version from cvs and it works well for me. I used the servlet version so it gives me a url with my.pdf in it (once I remembered to put the useExtensions value in components.xml). I tried my generic table again (thanks for the value binding on the widths

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You still need to access the page as test.seam - it will redirect to test.pdf if you are using the docstore servlet. Does the seam-document example work? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4005775#4005775 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.co

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-24 Thread m.schuetz
Hey Norman, thanks for your fast implementation. I have already tried the new stuff. (web.xml, components.xml changed following your description) Following exception occurs when trying to acces /test.pdf: 11:55:27,193 ERROR [SeamServletFilter] ended request due to exception | java.lang.NullPo

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've checked in some changes to PDF that solve the session/conversation scope problem and that give significantly more control over the URLs used. (/myApp/myDocument.pdf, for example) I'd appreciate feedback from anyone who was bothered by the previous behavior. View the original post : ht

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just to make sure I am hearing you correctly - you want to take an existing PDF document and define precise rectangles over it in which seam should generate a page overlay, essentially "filling in" the document? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-23 Thread spambob
Hello Norman, congratulation on your PDF library! While I partially agree that PDF Forms are nice I run in some problems with them (while using iText): 1. One isn't able to format the label & the inputfield 2. The input is always displayed in some typewriter font (Please correct me if I'm wrong

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-21 Thread luizruiz
anonymous wrote : - As others have mentioned I would also like to be able to use a different file ending to .seam and would like to be able to use various names for the pdf, ideally on a per document basis (I haven't tried the servlet version in cvs yet) The p:document tag could have an attrib

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think the goal would be to have the file name the same as the view name. foo.xhtml would be be accessed as foo.seam and redirect to foo.pdf. Given the way documentStore works now, it certainly would be possible to allow arbitrary file names, but I'm not sure we need to be that complicated.

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-21 Thread luizruiz
It's great! My suggestion is to add to an archive taglib.tld for integration with IDEs View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4004619#4004619 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4004619

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh and, I did add the width valuebinding in CVS. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4004556#4004556 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4004556 ___ jboss-

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry - the lack of a value binding was just oversight on my part. I think in general most people will want to statically size their tables, but I'll be glad to work with to make sure you have whatever you need to dynamically size them. Let me know if you run into any particular problems. Vi

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-21 Thread rbz285
thanks for the response, I'll probably end up doing a simple guesstimate of column width ratios based on the heading row and the first row of data using a custom EL function However, in order to use it I need to be able to set the table attributes for widths and columns using an EL expression.

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-21 Thread rbz285
for the page orientation, there is an example on the lowagie site, its called landscapeportrait on page http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/#part1 the code is at http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/examples/com/lowagie/examples/general/LandscapePortrait.java it seems to use a convenient rotate met

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As best as I can tell, iText will not compute column widths for you. You need to determine your column structure in advance. Keep in mind that in iText, the table begins rendering to the PDF long before the end of the table is reached. (allowing for long multi-page tables) You are right.

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-20 Thread rbz285
Let me start off by saying it looks really good. My aim when I tried this out was to create adhoc PDF versions of tabular data in a generic fashion, and came across the following questions and issues: - unlike in html, table columns must have their width explicitly set, is there a way

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks. If you have any specific requirements for the functionality or suggestions on how to make it work, please add them to the task. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4004331#4004331 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-20 Thread kukeltje
http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-678 (ventateshbr did it, it already has one vote in one day... :-)) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4004268#4004268 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've added some preliminary support for using file extensions with PDFs. components.xml: | | web.xml: | | Seam Servlet Filter | org.jboss.seam.servlet.SeamServletFilter | | | | Seam Servlet Filter | *.pdf | |

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmmm - digital signatures are an interesting idea. I hadn't given it much thought. iText does support the feature, so it's definitely a possibility. Would you be willing to open a JIRA feature request for it? If it gets a few votes, I'll definitely bump it up on the priority list. View t

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-19 Thread venkateshbr
Does the current version support embedding digital signatures in pdf or signing a pdf file with a digital signature. If i am not wrong you can do this in iText through the use of pdfStamper. This feature would be used in all e-business sites and it would be really great to have this feature supp

[jboss-user] [JBoss Seam] - Re: iText (PDF) support in Seam

2007-01-19 Thread m.schuetz
As I already mentioned in a former post I am not quite happy with the way Seam generates the extension for the generated pdf-file. Is it possible that Seam would redirect to a "simple" pdf-file? The name of the pdf-file could be defined in the link from the content-page. For example: mypage.x