As I understand things, the "draw a solid white box over the entire background" practice used to be quite common in the old PostScript days... probably a workaround for some problem or another leaving "new" pages in a not-quite-new state.
It certainly isn't unheard of... it's just a huge PITA for people trying to overlay pages on one another. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com import legalese.Disclaimer; Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null; > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Russell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 1:56 PM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Problems with super-imposing one PDF > onanother: White background? > > Hi, > > Thanks very much for your help with this :) > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:34 AM, 1T3XT info <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you post a PDF so that we can see which hypothesis is correct? > > If it's one of my guesses, it will be easy to solve your problem. > > If it's indeed the white background problem, we'll have to be more > > creative to find a solution. > > The following PDFs demonstrate the issue (all hosted on dropbox to > avoid clogging up peoples' e-mail): > * Letter (i.e. the 'overlay'): > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/723910/PR/example-letter.pdf > * Stationary (i.e. the 'underlay'): > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/723910/PR/deadsimple-stationary.pdf > * Result after the code in my previous note is executed: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/723910/PR/electronic.pdf > > I just tried one other thing that occurred to me prior to uploading > these, which I've got a nasty feeling confirms the hypothesis that > it's a white background problem... If I open the 'result' PDF in > Preview on the mac, and then search for 'Example' (which is one of two > words on the stationary), then despite the fact that I can't see the > text, it throws a highlight exactly where the word /would/ have > been... > > Assuming that is indeed the case (here's hoping it's not!), then any > pointers as to what to try next? I assume I'd have to somehow try and > 'find' the white rectangle and remove it from the PDF? Sounds a bit... > scary! Any other options worth investigating? > > Thanks again, > > > Paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- > ---- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > 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/ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.839 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3009 - Release Date: 07/18/10 > 23:36:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ 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/
