I didn't say that your suggestions were not useful. I agree that if you do not take these measures you will have limited results returning PDF content from a servlet; my point was that since the original querent was seeing SOME results, he couldn't have missed all those basic steps.
And what's with "Mr. Matt Benson"? -Matt --- Hubert Lingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK your right, I didn't stay on the list. But there > is a configuration > problem with it. When someone replies, the address > should automatically be > set to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Why > this is not the case, I > don't know. Enough said about it, this is not the > purpose of this mailing > list. > > But where I don't agree with your Mr. Matt Benson > for the third point. IT IS > MANDATORY to set the content type and many real > browser WILL NOT DISPLAY > anything if it is not set. > In the same way, try to deliver a 1kb (very small > file) PDF file to any > browser with the Adobe Acrobat PDF plug-in (I doubt > that any plugin will > work) and you will see that IT WON'T WORK, because > the buffer is not full > enough to be sent to the client (aka IE, Mozilla, > Safari or whatever). > > Hubert > > >From: Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Hubert Lingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: itext-questions > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: Re: [iText-questions] Newbie's prob > >Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:50:54 -0700 (PDT) > > > >That's wonderful, but > > > >1) You didn't stay on the list > >2) I'm not the one with the problem, and > >3) Since the original poster is seeing some > content, > >I'm not sure that these servlet suggestions, though > >worth keeping in mind at all times, will help in > this > >specific situation. > > > >best regards, > >Matt > > > >--- Hubert Lingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When you write something with a servlet do not > > > forget in some situations to > > > either: > > > - set the content length (with > > > response.setContentLength(data.length); > > > response.getOutputStream().write(data);) before > > > writing. Probably your > > > problem! > > > - to flush the writer. > > > > > > Hubert > > > > > > > > > >From: Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >To: Uwe Kristmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >CC: itext-questions > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Subject: Re: Re: [iText-questions] Newbie's > prob > > > >Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:10:11 -0700 (PDT) > > > > > > > >Always keep the list on correspondences. I > would > > > >think the problem lies in your usage of the > > > >PdfContentByte, and not to pass the buck, but > I'll > > > bet > > > >Paulo knows. :) > > > > > > > >-Matt > > > > > > > > > > > >--- Uwe Kristmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > hi matt, > > > > > > > > > > it works, i get the pdfstream with the > text > > > > > HELLO StreamTest3!! (document.add) > > > > > but not the text i tried to add with > > > > > PdfContentbyte. > > > > > both in MSIE 6.0.26 > > > > > and > > > > > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; > > > de-DE; > > > > > rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 > > > > > don't understand why > > > > > thanks for the reply > > > > > > > > > > uwe > > > > > > > > > > Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb > am > > > > > 20.06.03 19:02:15: > > > > > > > > > > > > What happens when you invoke the servlet > > > through > > > > > the > > > > > > browser? Also, does it happen to work > > > properly > > > > > using > > > > > > a different browser? > > > > > > > > > > > > -Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > --- Uwe Kristmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > first to say, i'm not a great java > expert > > > and > > > > > new > > > > > > > to itext . > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to write pdfcontent direct > to > > > the > > > > > > > browser (MSIE 6.026) . > > > > > > > It works fine for <document.add>, but > > > using > > > > > > > <PdfContentbyte> has > > > > > > > no effect. > > > > > > > Writing to the servers filesystem and > > > > > redirecting > > > > > > > the generated file > > > > > > > to the client is ok, but i would > prefer > > > to > > > > > write > > > > > > > to a ByteArrayOutputStream. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > has anyone an idea what's wrong with > this > > > > > code? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > thanks a lot > > > > > > > > > > > > > > uwe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > serverlog: > > > > > > > with PdfContentByte > > > > > > > [20/06/2003 19:43:44:290 GMT+02:00] > > > > > StreamTest3: > > > > > > > init > > > > > > > [20/06/2003 19:43:46:793 GMT+02:00] > > > > > StreamTest3: > > > > > > > BAOS.size()= 2074 > > > > > > > [20/06/2003 19:43:46:893 GMT+02:00] > > > > > StreamTest3: > > > > > > > BAOS.size()= 2074 > > > > > > > [20/06/2003 19:45:53:115 GMT+02:00] > > > > > StreamTest3: > > > > > > > destroy > > > > > > > without > > > > > > > [20/06/2003 19:45:53:165 GMT+02:00] > > > > > StreamTest3: > > > > > > > init > > > > > > > [20/06/2003 19:45:55:518 GMT+02:00] > > > > > StreamTest3: > > > > > > > BAOS.size()= 1916 > > > > > > > [20/06/2003 19:45:55:619 GMT+02:00] > > > > > StreamTest3: > > > > > > > BAOS.size()= 1916 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > //package pdfservlet; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > > > > > > > import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; > > > > > > > import java.io.FileOutputStream; > > > > > > > import java.io.IOException; > > > > > > > import java.net.URL; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > import javax.servlet.http.*; > > > > > > > import javax.servlet.*; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > import com.lowagie.text.*; > > > > > > > import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont; > > > > > > > import > com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; > > > > > > > import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > > > > > > > public class StreamTest3 extends > HttpServlet > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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