Hi, > Could you please tell me why when opening attached file, I can't read > plain text "Hello World" as mentioned in digitalsignatures20121017.pdf
<</Length 64/Filter/FlateDecode>>stream Because your PDF contains a compressed stream. Trying to read that in a text editor is like trying to read a .zip archive in a text editor - won't work. If you want to see / examine the structure of a PDF file, use a tool like RUPS that's made to let you do exactly that. http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextrups/ You'll find that the content of the compressed stream is actually q BT 36 806 Td 0 -18 Td /F1 12 Tf (Hello World)Tj 0 0 Td ET Q Which is probably what you were expecting to see. Bye, Martin No Disclaimer.icomedias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
