RE: [iText-questions] read PDF write HTML

2005-09-27 Thread Paulo Soares
It would be in the scope of iText but it's very difficult. It's difficult to extract text, it's difficult to locate the word breaks, it's difficult to get the structure (columns, tables, etc.). There are a few free and commercial options with various degrees of success, have a look at jpedal and

[iText-questions] implementing iText in Magnolia

2005-09-27 Thread Sandor Rozsa
Hello iTexters, first of all, let me thank you for developing this software. I try to implement currently iText in Magnolia. Magnolia is a Java based Open Source CMS system built on JCR. For more info: www.magnolia.info My goal is to develop a dynamic print-page function based on the PDF file

[iText-questions] more questions on XML - PDF

2005-09-27 Thread Eryan Yu
Hi all, in the old tutorial (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/tutorial/ch07.html), it doesn't mention how to specify the paper size of the document, page header/footer and page numbers from the xml file. they are quite important features of a document. any one knows how to set them in the xml file?

[iText-questions] Newbie: Please Help

2005-09-27 Thread Murtaza Lokhandwala
Hi Everyone, I started using iText for creating pdf couple of days back. And I have a need to create a pdf based on time dependent access. Example a particular file should only be accessible for 1 week after creation. That is after a certain time / date pdf should not be accessible. File has

[iText-questions] Page size question

2005-09-27 Thread Sandor Rozsa
Hi iTexters, just a dumb java newbie quickie: i'm trying to pass the page size from my HTML to the servlet: public class HelloWorldServlet extends HttpServlet { /** * Returns a PDF, RTF or HTML document. * * @see

[iText-questions] Problem in printing content in text area of a pdf generated using iText

2005-09-27 Thread Krishna Kishore .J
Hi All, We are using iText api to read a pdf form template and populate it . After populating we are printing the pdf generated using smart jprint api , we are using smartjcommon_1.7.1.jar. The entire content of the pdf prints very well except the content in the text area. This content

[iText-questions] how to check checkboxes?

2005-09-27 Thread Tom Gaven
I'm using: acroFields.setField ( fieldName, fieldValue ); to try to check a checkbox, but it never shows up checked. For fieldValue, I've tried Yes 1 On but these don't seem to work. This method does work for entry fields, but I can't get it to work for checkboxes. Perhaps there is a

[iText-questions] Long page

2005-09-27 Thread Birthe Berland
How do I define a page with a fixed width (8cm) and an unknown height. I am going to print out a receipt with an unknown size. Thanks, Birthe Berland --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo

[iText-questions] Documentation Error with PdfReader (constructor with RandomAccessFileOrArray)?

2005-09-27 Thread Vidal, Rose
Title: Documentation Error with PdfReader (constructor with RandomAccessFileOrArray)? According to the online API (http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/docs/) the following constructor exists: public PdfReader(RandomAccessFileOrArray  raf, byte[]  ownerPassword) throws IOException I'm using

Re: [iText-questions] Long page

2005-09-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Birthe Berland wrote: How do I define a page with a fixed width (8cm) and an unknown height. I am going to print out a receipt with an unknown size. Define a document with a very long height, create the document in memory and copy the page of the document in memory to a new document that

Re: [iText-questions] Page size question

2005-09-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Sandor Rozsa wrote: String pageSize = request.getParameter(pageSize); So the pageSize variable is a String object. PageSize.pageSize Here you are calling the static member variable pageSize of class PageSize. Inside class PageSize, there is no public static Object pageSize So

Re: [iText-questions] Newbie: Please Help

2005-09-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Murtaza Lokhandwala wrote: a particular file should only be accessible for 1 week after creation. That is after a certain time / date pdf should not be accessible. This is not possible with iText. Only very expensive products can solve this problem. br, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] implementing iText in Magnolia

2005-09-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Sandor Rozsa wrote: Hello iTexters, first of all, let me thank you for developing this software. Sorry, your mail was too long to read. I don't have the time to read complete project descriptions. br, Bruno --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [iText-questions] more questions on XML - PDF

2005-09-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Eryan Yu wrote: Please give me some hints. My response is and will always be the same, no matter how many times you pop the question: read the code of the SAXiTextHandler, subclass it and implement the tags you need. Once you start to get acquainted with SAX parsers, you'll see it's not

Re: [iText-questions] PDF file format specification

2005-09-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Paulo Soares wrote: Read the chapter 3 of the pdf reference 100 times (I'm not kidding) until you understand the overall pdf structure. After that have a look at PdfReader to explore the objects. -Original Message- From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 27,

[iText-questions] Re: itext rtf pagenumber

2005-09-27 Thread Mark
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 17:05, Eric Thureau wrote: In pdf at the end of my loop, i do a doc.setPageCount(0) and it 's ok. How do you do for rtf format? This is currently not possible in the rtf writer. I'll put it on the list of future suggestions. Greetings, Mark -- Q: Know what the

FW: [iText-questions] Newbie: Please Help

2005-09-27 Thread Bill Ensley
Accessible to be viewed on the server, or have the pdf self-destruct. These are 2 different things. If on the server side, just check the date and if it's past the deadline, don't return it to the client. Bill Ensley Bear Printing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [iText-questions] how to check checkboxes?

2005-09-27 Thread Paulo Soares
Use AcroFields.getAppearanceStates() for a list of values. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Gaven Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 2:11 PM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [iText-questions] how to check

[iText-questions] Which Acrobat Reader version does itext-1.01 support?

2005-09-27 Thread Kee
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[iText-questions] strange signature creation in itext

2005-09-27 Thread Tamas Nemeth
Hi! I'm trying to create command line pdf signer, which creates a signed pdf in 2 part. First an external program calls me to get a hash (my program creates the hash and gives back to the external program), then the external program creates a pkcs7 file onto that hash and gives back to my command

[iText-questions] Re: Digitally signing a pdf document

2005-09-27 Thread kooto (sent by Nabble.com)
Francisco-2 wrote: ... I am searching to develop a very simple tool that adds a digital signature to a pdf document and encrypts this document using a 128 bit certificate ... Forgive me for my lazyness, but as a matter a fact, I have searched for this answer in the site but couldn't find it...