----- Original Message ----- From: "Leone-Thiel, Pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:50 PM Subject: [iText-questions] PDF file creation with iText
> Good day to iText users/authors, > I have some very rudimentary questions about your product. We use it in > our company to generate PDF files, and our needs are changing...I am not > a programmer or direct user. > > Does iText use the "infamous" PDFWriter driver that came out years ago > with one of the first Adobe Acrobat Reader releases? No. > The same one that Dov Isaacs (Adobe Principal Scientist) recommends be > removed from almost any system in the world, that it should not be used > to generate PDF that contain any more than text? > PDFWriter is referenced here: > <snip from http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/general/index.html> > step 2: the Writer object: > Once our Document is created, we can create one or more instances of > writers that listen to this document. All writers should be derived from > the abstract class com.lowagie.text.DocWriter. For the moment there are > three kinds of writers supported: > PdfWriter > Generates documents in the Portable Document Format > <snip> > > Can iText create bookmarks and hyperlinks in PDF that it generates? Yes. > We want to generate PDF from iText that have hyperlinks to other PDF. > We're generating PDF within a specified directory structure and naming > convention, and they should also have bookmarks to those other files. > No problem. > I truly appreciate any information you can share, or let me know if you > need more information. Have a look at the tutorial at http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/. You can have a look at some of the capabilities even if you're not a programmer. There's also a book coming up by the end of the year. Paulo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
