Michael Harig wrote: > Hi. > > I'm trying to use PDF files as templates for (simple) reports (using > PdfStamper). I run into 2 problems:
You are using PdfStamper, but you are talking about > 1. need to know the bottom and top total margin (page margin + footer/header). But getting the bottom and top margins of EXISTING documents is IMPOSSIBLE! > I found in PdfDocument the methods indentBottom() and indentTop(). DON'T EVER LOOK INSIDE PdfDocument!!! > They seem to return the values I need, but they are protected methods. > I did want to customize the sources If you need the margins of a Document, use the methods available in the Document class. DON'T EVER LOOK INSIDE PdfDocument!!! > but there are several errors in iText-2.1.7-sources.jar, > most but not all related to missing BouncyCastle classes > (unfortunately that website is down atm). You can download the necessary BC jars from: http://itext.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/itext/trunk/lib/ > 2. Furthermore, When "growing" a table all items below that > (except footer) have to be moved. I couldn't figure out how to achieve this. It is IMPOSSIBLE to "reflow" content on an existing PDF document. > Anyone with suggestions, please? Your design is flawed based on wrong assumptions about PDF. I suggest that you catch up with some reading about PDF first. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
