Re: [iText-questions] HELP NEEDED: PDF V9.x Dynamic Form

2010-04-12 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Miller, Billy C CTR USAF AFSOC 623 AOC/CSDI wrote: Please assist... I tried purchasing the book... getting the following error... After another mail to support, the problem was solved. It's now possible again to buy the book. Recently a new chapter was added: chapter 13. In the meantime,

Re: [iText-questions] Create pages virtually and then write them out?

2010-04-11 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Michael Olenick wrote: I don't know about others but I hesitated and did a week of testing before thinking about wasting Bruno's time when I found a bug in the tab-chunk mechanism. I verified the bug (tab chunks behave erratically with justified text) with many fonts, many tab chunk sizes,

Re: [iText-questions] iText in Action: no Java Graphics2D chapter in the 2nd edition?

2010-04-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Fred Janon wrote: I am using the MEAP 2nd edition at the moment and was surprised that the chapter Java Graphics2D and jFreeChart was not in the 2nd edition anymore? Would it be possible to add it, even as an appendix? I think it would be good to show readers how to integrate charts with

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader.MakeRemoteNamedDestinationsLocal()

2010-04-03 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello Keith, I can't reproduce this problem in Java. Could this be something that works with iText 5.0.1, but not with iTextSharp 5.0.0? In that case, this will probably be solved when iTextSharp is upgraded. I'm currently at 1/3 of the final chapter, but I'm reviewing the previous chapters at the

[iText-questions] [Job] iTextSharp assignment

2010-03-26 Thread Bruno Lowagie
I was asked to forward this: Position: iTextSharp Contract Consultant *Can be done remotely. Will hire anywhere and do phone interview. Location: Dayton, Ohio Job Type: Contract Duration: 60 hours Rate: Client is will to pay whatever is a reasonable bill rate to get the right technical

Re: [iText-questions] [book] iText in Action 2nd Edition errata

2010-03-24 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Carl Barlow wrote: Listing 1.13 HelloZip.java (p30) has an explanation beneath it with the intent of lines 2 and 3 reversed: Line 2 explanation should read Creates a writer that won't close the underlying stream, while Line 3 explanation should read Closes the Document. The more detailed

Re: [iText-questions] iText in Action 2ED, part1.chapter03.MovieTimeBlocks.java

2010-03-24 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Keith O wrote: Hi Bruno, Maybe this: public static long TIME930 = 3060L; // 0830 Should be this: public static long TIME930 = 3420L; // 0930 The funny thing is that 9:30 is 3060l in Java. Time starts at 1AM in Java (which is confusing).

Re: [iText-questions] Itext in Action 2nd Edition - PDF Packages - Portable Collections

2010-03-24 Thread Bruno Lowagie
vasantha sriram wrote: Hello, I have book the electronic version of the second edition of this book. The books has a topic on Portable Collections which I guess has not been added yet. I have scoured the net for examples on creating Portable Collections. Some of the links to your wiki

Re: [iText-questions] iText in Action 2ED, part1.chapter03.MovieTimeBlocks.java

2010-03-24 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Keith O wrote: Ugh, sorry about that. All the Java programmers on the list were probably thinking ah, silly .NET programmer ;-) No, I had to check myself. The original example was written years ago (because I use that application to visit a real film festival: http://filmfestival.be/ ). Then

Re: [iText-questions] colspan problem

2010-03-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Fırat KÜÇÜK wrote: You should understand this. Community feedback is the most important thing in an open source project. Writing documentation is important too. I'm writing a book about iText and you only gave me ONE day to look at the problem, whereas I won't have time to look at if before

Re: [iText-questions] colspan problem

2010-03-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Fırat KÜÇÜK wrote: Hi, I work in lots of opensource projects. Some of them are play framework and JSF. But none of them closes the bugs as fast as you. We prefer one channel: the mailing list. I only look at the Tracker @ sourceforge when I make a release. It's not very efficient, and at

Re: [iText-questions] iTextSharp Header Stamper

2010-03-03 Thread Bruno Lowagie
drorzp wrote: see attached . http://old.nabble.com/file/p27772487/pdfTemplate.xml pdfTemplate.xml Read the XFA specification: XFA template is the XFA subelement that describes the appearance and interactive characteristics of an interactive form. It was designed from the ground up to be an

Re: [iText-questions] Has fix row height implementation [PdfPCell.setFixedHeight()] a bug ?

2010-03-01 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Paulo Soares wrote: Release schedules are with Bruno, I've no idea. I'll probably make a new release when the third part of the manuscript of iText in Action 2E is finished. Of course: we do make releases for companies that buy a license (it's part of the support contract). best regards, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] iTextSharp UNICODE problem???

2010-03-01 Thread Bruno Lowagie
chriskaza81 wrote: if it is just possible to provide a sample code because i don't understand what could be my fault although i sertenly know that is my fault. The problem is generally caused by not understanding how fonts work. There's an interesting chapter about fonts in this book (chapter

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: problem, could you help?

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Sion Smith wrote: Hello, I have recently purchased your book and gone through the examples, however I am getting a strange problem which I cannot find the solution to anywhere in the book or on the internet, could you please take a look at the same pdf i've attached. I've never seen

Re: [iText-questions] Extracting a page as an Image

2010-02-26 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Cameron Laird wrote: iText and its mailing list certainly could support beefier or multiplied FAQs; I agree with that. I also recognize how many commitments everyone involved already has. Once the book is finished a new site will be made. Namahn ( http://namahn.com ) is currently working on

Re: [iText-questions] Project feasibility with iText?

2010-02-21 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Fred Janon wrote: Thanks, I'll check the PdfImportedPage. I'll buy the second edition of the book too. I wrote some code to try to replace a button filed with some PDF content and the button is not replaced. Both the PDF content and the button still appear on the final pdf document. Any

Re: [iText-questions] Licensing questions

2010-02-17 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Markus Meyer wrote: When I asked for the email address of Bruno I got the answer that I should contact a person named Andrew to reach Bruno (!?!?). I contacted Andrew but he replied Bruno wouldn't have time to do it. Although both Mark and Andrew were very friendly and helpful, the whole

Re: [iText-questions] Licensing questions

2010-02-17 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Markus Meyer wrote: Changing the license from MPL/LGPL to AGPL is a big change for the user. It needs direct response from any project, be it open or closed source. For example no open source project which currently uses iText 2.1.7 will be able to use iText 5.0.0 without completely

Re: [iText-questions] Licensing questions

2010-02-17 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Markus Meyer wrote: I did miss the license change, then again, I would never have envisioned that the iText project even would consider such a change. Our mails crossed each other. People who were following the iText project knew the circumstances that led to the license change.

Re: [iText-questions] Licensing questions

2010-02-16 Thread Bruno Lowagie
specifically requested it, I never got an actual email of Bruno Lowagie I don't recall such a request; unless you're the one hiding behind the nickname harakiri. Third, I don't know about the development process of iText, but did the iText developers accept any patches from any third party? If yes

Re: [iText-questions] Licensing questions

2010-02-16 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Brett Neumeier wrote: A couple of points. First, there is certainly some application code that is linked with iText, but that is not necessarily the entire application system. Suppose that you use a proprietary application server, then that application server doesn't count as covered work.

Re: [iText-questions] [Book] FYI iText in Action 2E on 2 in MEAP Bestsellers Top 10

2010-02-12 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Glen Hamel wrote: Second from the top Way to go iText!!! I know I helped get it there!!! Come on those that still haven't bought the MEAP/Hard Copy!! Buy it and make it #1!! Great resource of information! Thanks! I'm still working on the final chapters ;-) Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] [Book]

2010-02-11 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Via-Reque, Alfonso wrote: Regarding 2^nd edition. Just a brief editorial note. On the first page of chapter 9 the sentence: When I want to travel by train or by*** plain* … Should read … plane … Oops, you're right. This will be corrected. You (and the other people on the mailing

[iText-questions] [Book] FYI iText in Action 2E on 2 in MEAP Bestsellers Top 10

2010-02-11 Thread Bruno Lowagie
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Re: [iText-questions] pdf does not receive image from a servlet

2010-02-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Donald Jayawardena wrote: Hi Bruno, Sorry for confusion. Is that allright if I put the problem down here before I put it in iText? Not really, but your question is more clear now. The images are produced in another servlet (named createjpg). 1. HTML output is working fine. I use the

Re: [iText-questions] [Book] iText in Action Second Edition

2010-02-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Tony Austin wrote: Ciao Bruno, Today's MEAP update of your *iText in Action, Second Edition* draft (with new chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12) has the wrong title, namely that of another book entirely Groovy in Action, Second Edition Its document properties show a filename of

[iText-questions] iText 5.0.1 has been released

2010-02-03 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, I've finished the first 12 chapters of the 2nd edition of iText in Action (about 420 pages). These chapters will soon be available in the MEAP version: http://www.manning.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=223_212 You can download the source code of the examples of these chapters

[iText-questions] iText 5.0.1 for Maven

2010-02-03 Thread Bruno Lowagie
I've made a bundle for Maven of iText 5.0.1. http://itextpdf.com/maven/itextpdf-5.0.1-bundle.jar http://itextpdf.com/maven/pom.xml I don't use Maven myself, but I'd like to ask people who need iText in iBiblio to do the necessary to get it there. If something is missing from the bundle, let me

[iText-questions] [Fwd: Last call: iBoot team members ready to dive into an entrepreneurial training!]

2010-01-28 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Please forward to non-technical people who are available in Belgium for 12 days between February and June. ---BeginMessage--- LinkedIn Group: IBBT (Belgium) Subject: Last call: iBoot team members ready to dive into an entrepreneurial training! Are you skilled in finance, sales,

Re: [iText-questions] Loooking for sample files for the IBOOK

2010-01-04 Thread Bruno Lowagie
dave admin wrote: Can someon assist me in getting a copy of the sample files from the IText.jar ebook. The links in the book are dead to download the files. As well if anyone knows of a book written based on 5.0 release I would be highly interested. There's a book about iText 5 in the

Re: [iText-questions] Greetings

2009-12-24 Thread Bruno Lowagie
George Bilalis wrote: Best wishes, for happy holidays to all members of this list and specially to iText people! Season's greetings to you too, and to all the iText users. I'm working on chapter 9 of the book, I think I'll manage to finish it before the family reunion for Christmas this

Re: [iText-questions] Encrypt PDF using public key

2009-12-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Víte(zslav Košina wrote: Hello, I'm using Itext for PDF encryption by password. My question is, if is possible use iText for encrypting PDF using certificate (public key). Yes, but as far as I remember, you need to use the BouncyCastle jars, download the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE)

[iText-questions] Release iText 5.0.0

2009-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, 5 months after the release of iText 2.1.7, we're now releasing iText 5. It took a long time to make this release, and we made a huge jump in the version number for the following reasons: 1. We've upgraded the license to the AGPL as recommended by the Free Software Foundation for

Re: [iText-questions] V5

2009-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
John Renfrew wrote: According to Source Forge v5 among other things has: oRemoval of SimpleCell, SimpleTable. There's almost no documentation available about SimpleCell and SimpleTable, so there's no big loss there. oRemoval of Table, Cell, Row, PdfTable, PdfCell. Let me quote from

Re: [iText-questions] How can I change contents of a text field at signing?

2009-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
webpointz wrote: Thank you BUT you keep saying to add as an OnFocus event. The problem is that there is nowhere that shows an example of this being added in the documentation or anywhere else. Did you really look everywhere? Would you have an example of the code I would need to add it to

Re: [iText-questions] How can I change contents of a text field at signing?

2009-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
webpointz wrote: I guess I will keep trying given that nobody seems to want to provide assistance other than clues. Clues??? You ask for an example, and I'm giving you a fully fledged example: Now click on the first link you see: http://1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=exampleid=438 Now

Re: [iText-questions] previous version of site available?

2009-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Tomislav Stojcevich wrote: Is there anyway to make the pre 5x version of the website available to help support those that still have legacy usage of the 2x version? What web site? Is 1t3xt.info down? I can still see it. Maybe it's a temporary problem.

Re: [iText-questions] Changes to iText book (Manning)

2009-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Michael Stringham wrote: I own the first edition of the iText book, published by Manning. What changes will there be, in the second edition of the book? I'm thinking of purchasing the MEAP version, if needed. The changes are substantial. Download chapter 2 from Manning's site and you'll find

Re: [iText-questions] Silent license change?

2009-12-05 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Mark Storer wrote: There are a couple mentions of iText using AGPL going forward hither and yon, but nothing OVERT. Yes, it has been mentioned a couple of times. Bruno will want to make some official announcment, but he's rather busy Actually Writing Code right now. The release is

Re: [iText-questions] Fillable and Saveable forms in PDF files

2009-11-26 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Achilleas Mantzios wrote: Thanx for your precise answer! I second that. This (long) thread was very interesting. best regards, Bruno -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial.

[iText-questions] FYI: Lowagie/iText in Action, 2nd Edition - your first review has started

2009-11-14 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Manning Publications Co. wrote: Bruno, I sent your manuscript out for review, and asked the reviewers to be completed by Monday, November 23rd. I included the questions and the reviewers that you suggested. If you think you should have been on the list, and you didn't receive a mail

Re: [iText-questions] image setSpacingAfter()

2009-09-21 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Jason Berk wrote: Is there some trick to making this work? I'm not seeing any whitespace around my images. I never use that method. I always use borders (Image extends Rectangle). br, Bruno -- Come build with us! The

Re: [iText-questions] DottedLineSeparator and borders

2009-09-04 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Mathias Nilsson wrote: Also when using the DottedLineSeparator my pdf get's corrupted. If I open it in acrobat and resave then everythings works fine again. Please read these simple rules: Provide us with a standalone example that allows us to reproduce the problem, and we'll have a look

Re: [iText-questions] DottedLineSeparator and borders

2009-09-04 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Mathias Nilsson wrote: and I'm not implying that itext is doing anything wrong. It's just that I can't get it right. Then you have to provide a standalone example that reproduces the problem, just as I'm now providing you with an example mashed up from two existing examples that works as

Re: [iText-questions] please clarify

2009-08-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Sangram Keshari Panda, HCL-Industry Solutions wrote: Hi , I have gone thru the url http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/PDF-RTF/PrintJTabletoPdfdirectly.htm and found that it converts a JTable to PDF file and then prints the files.Please suggest me where I will paste the itext.zip

Re: [iText-questions] please clarify

2009-08-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Sven Boden wrote: Thirdly urgency is in the eye of the beholder. HCL Axon is rated #1 for customer satisfaction. EVERYTHING is urgent. If your problem is life or death, pay for support (yes you can via Bruno's company). HCL Axon isn't on the list of customers. I'll send them a mail. best

Re: [iText-questions] setHeaderRows and setRowSpan

2009-07-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
netslow wrote: Thanks for your help, I solved my problem. I built latest jar from svn and now setHeaderRows() works exactly as it should. FYI: after running my test examples, I noticed that the patch I posted causes problems when you extend the last row of a table. A new patch was posted

[iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, it was a nice surprise to log in, and to discover that all the iText questions were already answered by other people. I'm very busy for the moment because I have a phone call with Manning (the publisher of iText in Action) in about 7 hours. They want to talk about writing a

Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
ghi...@yahoo.com wrote: I would agree that breaking up the book into the basics pdf advanced stuff Would be a good idea. When I look at how the O'Reilly do perl, java, regular expressions,sql ... etc they do the same thing. May I make one further suggestion. A pocket

Re: [iText-questions] Maybe a new iText book

2009-07-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
glen.ha...@auricnet.ca wrote: PS. How's Inigo? (Since I can't read Dutch, I am unable understand most of your blogs.. ) We have to go to the hospital for a check-up every 6 weeks. So far, all tests are good; no trace of Cancer anymore. He has suffered hearing loss in the higher frequencies

Re: [iText-questions] pdftable rowspan - bunching

2009-07-22 Thread Bruno Lowagie
pbs wrote: Hi I am using pdfTable to create a table which will use rowspan to display a timetable. Please don't talk about pdfTable when you mean Table. I dont think I can use pdfptable with nested tables because of the potential complexity of the table. Please don't talk about pdfptable

Re: [iText-questions] setHeaderRows and setRowSpan

2009-07-22 Thread Bruno Lowagie
netslow wrote: Well, it's very commendable. But I still can't get any solution for my problem. It looks like a bug in iText... And this patch fixes it: Revision: 4030 http://itext.svn.sourceforge.net/itext/?rev=4030view=rev Author: blowagie Date: 2009-07-22 14:43:15 +

Re: [iText-questions] setLineDash() not working as expected

2009-07-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Daniel Budde wrote: So, I have my trusty iText book in hand and I swear I have read it, looked at the java docs, searched for examples and scoured the mailing list archives, but either this is just not working as it should or my understanding of it is warped. Here are 2 lines I have

Re: [iText-questions] add PdfPTable into Columntext into an existing PDF File

2009-07-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Stephan Trautmann wrote: Alright, maybe I should firstly introduce you to what I am about to do: I got an existing pdf document having 3 form fields. The task is to firstly fill these fields and add a large ( 660 rows) pdfptable starting at the first page to that document. So far i managed

Re: [iText-questions] Pdf Template adding multiple images

2009-07-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
PortfolioMan wrote: I am attempting to add multiple images to a PdfTemplate. ... But when I attempt to add more than one image I just get the one. I am missing some piece of knowledge about how to draw multiple images and add them to the template .My apologies in advance for not understanding

Re: [iText-questions] (no subject)

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Bert Vingerhoets wrote: Another way to render custom XML into a PDF document (although Bruno might not like hearing this) is to write an XSLT stylesheet instead of Java code, that converts the XML to XSL-FO and then use an existing XSL-FO renderer such as Apache's FOP to convert the

Re: [iText-questions] (no subject)

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Bert Vingerhoets wrote: Finally, a mailing list is not the proper place to discuss this kind of subject. Why not? It's about doing business with F/OSS. I'm sure that this can be settled amicably through some other channel, like in the way we discussed our problems with iTexts font

Re: [iText-questions] Exchange or delete images in existing PDF-Files with itext

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Johannes1982 wrote: Hi, i know that you shouldn't use PDF as a format for editing, but i need to exchange images in existing PDF-Files. Is there a way to find an image in an existing PDF-Files and exhange it with another image of the same size and the same format? If this is not possible,

Re: [iText-questions] Hello

2009-07-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Swapna Matanam wrote: Hello , Actually i mean i want to replace some text like employee with Associate in my pdf. In my previous post .. key means employee and value means Associate. Can u please suggest me. Read the FAQ entry that was suggested to you, and you'll know why you

Re: [iText-questions] Table splitting question

2009-07-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Peter wrote: Ever used ‘Freeze Panes’ option in Excel? It’s exactly what I need I'm not an Excel user. So I don't know what Freeze panes are. certain number of header rows repeated on every new page PLUS certain number of leftmost columns (AKA row labels) repeated on every page. I’m about

Re: [iText-questions] Memory Usage/Performance Wide Tables

2009-07-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
David Hittel wrote: For normal tables we with columns 10 we use the memory performance hint from the iText examples. This works perfectly. There are different types of hints. http://1t3xt.be/?X00050a Sometimes it's just best to add separate tables glued to eachother. Programmatically the

Re: [iText-questions] add PdfPTable into Columntext into an existing PDF File

2009-07-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Stephan Trautmann wrote: Hello, I have been working with IText for 2 weeks now and already read through 3 quaters of the book which I have bought last week. Its really interesting how many different options I got in manipulating pdf and generate new ones. But as usuall there are

Re: [iText-questions] Set font

2009-07-10 Thread Bruno Lowagie
dakhla.0...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I have another problem. Googling I have found an explaination about it but no solution. It is as follow, Alignment in AcroForm fields is called Quadding, defined as: A code specifying the form of quadding (justification) to be used in

Re: [iText-questions] Itext dynamic fields

2009-07-10 Thread Bruno Lowagie
savi wrote: Hi, I have a pdf template which has a form with fields for user personal info, beneficiary info etc. Are you talking about XFA or AcroForm technology? The template will have place holders for 1 beneficiary information only. But If I get a data of 5 beneficiaries, i have to use

Re: [iText-questions] Textfield Style to Paragraph Style

2009-07-10 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Thomas Chille wrote: Hi, am i totally wrong with my approach? You say you have to use a line leading, but you're not setting the leading anywhere. OK, you use 0 in the setSimpleColumn method, but that's the leading for text mode. As you're adding the paragraph with addElement, you're in

Re: [iText-questions] pdf merge inside a page

2009-07-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Paul Stöttinger wrote: i need page part 1, followed by page part 2 and so on Did you read this FAQ entry: http://1t3xt.be/?X000480 ? Does it answer your question? br, Bruno -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge

Re: [iText-questions] iText PDF not getting printed properly in Solaris

2009-07-01 Thread Bruno Lowagie
rledesma_redsky wrote: But anyway with your answer Except that Adobe assumes that you are printing to a PostScript printer. gives me an idea that it might be the reason why. Thanks for that. And sorry for posting my problem here in ITEXT TOPIC it's just somehow related to me about printing

Re: [iText-questions] iText PDF not getting printed properly in Solaris

2009-06-30 Thread Bruno Lowagie
rledesma_redsky wrote: Hi, I am having the same problem.. I'm trying to print a pdf using acroread in solaris. when I'm trying to print it.. It's printing garbage.. this is weird. windows can do it w/o hassle... any help from you guyz? Do you have a scan of the printout? br, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] iText PDF not getting printed properly in Solaris

2009-06-30 Thread Bruno Lowagie
rledesma_redsky wrote: It's printing like this: %%Version 1.2 %%CreationDate (Tue Jun 30 11:29:30 2009) %%For: ((oraappr2@unknown host)) %%Title: 'ssnum' (Oracle Toolkit Application) %%LanguageLevel:1 %%Requirements: numcopies(1) blah..blah..blah..blah..blah..blah..blah..blah..blah..

Re: [iText-questions] [bug report] - Vertical rotated text missing the last character in PdfPTable

2009-06-30 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Gregan, Miroslav wrote: Hi all, as you can see in the example, I'm using iText 2.1.6. I'm trying to write vertical texts without wrapping in a PdfPTable. The problem is that the last VAVAVAVAVA's A is missing in the rendered PDF. Maybe it is due to the font's kerning? No, we're talking

[iText-questions] Saving a PDF form (Was: Re: Re :Re: Unable to use Corporate Certificate)

2009-06-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
sachin wrote: Hi i am sachin. You don't understand the concept of a mailing list. You're posting a reply to a thread with a question that isn't related to the Subject: of the thread. i have generated editable pdf using itext. Wrong again. There's no such thing as an editable PDF. I'm

Re: [iText-questions] Where is iText In Action Code Samples Zip File?

2009-06-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Alexis Pigeon wrote: 2009/6/23 1T3XT info i...@1t3xt.info mailto:i...@1t3xt.info Yes, there is. D'oh! ;-) You know what's frustrating: I received 8 reviews on Amazon. 5 five star reviews, 1 four star review and... 2 two star reviews. Both reviewers who gave me only two stars claimed they

Re: [iText-questions] Problems with new itext 2.1.6

2009-06-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Tobias van Treeck wrote: My PDF doesn't have a producer thus 'null' is returned and accessing that with .value returns a Nullpointer. Did that part change since 2.1.5? Yes, seems like I'll have to provide a 2.1.7 version because in the meanwhile I also fixed a rowspan problem that made

Re: [iText-questions] Re : Re : Saving a PDF form (Was: Re: Re :Re: Unable to use Corporate Certificate)

2009-06-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
sachin wrote: Hi i have adobe reader installed. but still i am not able to save the pdf contents. Of course not! You probably didn't understand my earlier response. You need Adobe Acrobat (not just Adobe Reader) to be able to save a PDF form. Or your PDF needs to be Reader Enabled. br, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] HTML Parser Blank Page in PDF

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
dmholte wrote: I've also tried using MultiColumnText, but am not sure if I am using it correctly with the HTMLWorker component. Without seeing the original HTML, we can't help. Maybe there's something in it that causes the new page. br, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] Unable to open a signed file using PdfReader

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Shwetank Singh wrote: I am unable to open the file using a PdfReader..It says “*PdfReader not opened with owner password*” Provide the owner password that was used to create the PDF file. This is in the FAQ: http://1t3xt.be/?X000402 br, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] Problem with rowspan: Cell height not adjusted

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
b...@softvision.de wrote: The problem seems to be that the cell is not adjusted in height. Is this a limitaion of the the new rowspan feature or a problem? It's a bug. Thanks for submitting a sample that reproduces the problem. As soon as I find the time, I'll see if I can fix it. br, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] image size problem in windows

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
S.Selvam wrote: Hi all, I tried to add image to a pdf file.The image size is 1712 x 2780 pixels.It gets properly added in my Linux machine (Ubuntu 8.10).But in windows xp it does not work,though it works for all other small images.It just adds a blank page to the pdf. There's no way to

Re: [iText-questions] Sign a PDF using a scanned signature

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Suladna wrote: Hi! I have read the How to sign a PDF using iText and iTextSharp and have succesfully signed a PDF document through iText. But I have not succeeded to sign using a scanned signature (an image), something which can be done in Adobe Acrobat. Is it possible to do this

Re: [iText-questions] Invalid save/restore state problem

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Zlatko Suslevski wrote: Hello, here am I again with code snippets for my problem (below the code is the description of the problem). I removed your question from my INBOX because I thought it was answered by Mark who replied: you probably forgot dispose(); If not, please don't provide

Re: [iText-questions] How to make the table cell opaque

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Shashikant Kulkarni wrote: Hi, I am trying to make a table cell opaque using a background color but I am still able to see the text which is behind the cell. I want to move the cell to a absolute position and want to hide anything behind it. Use a cell event to do this. Note that people

Re: [iText-questions] concatenated files coming up as multiple packages?

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
pickm wrote: Is there a method that checks if a pdf has a package, or is a package? I think the easiest thing to do is check for a package simply not concatenate when one is present. I'll handle it some other way. Get the catalog object from PdfReader and check for the key

Re: [iText-questions] Null pointer exception when adding cell to table

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Weston, Steven wrote: This is a strange error that I have not been able to figure out. I'm hoping that maybe some fresh eyes will quickly see my error and point it out. You're providing code snippets, but not a full, standalone example reproducing the problem. That makes it very hard for

Re: [iText-questions] Color Separations from PDF

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Mike Marchywka wrote: here is a terrible tendency to assume humans will be the only readers of documents :) Yes! You've understood the point of PDF! PDF was designed to be sent to printers or to be read by human eyes. It wasn't designed to be parsed; if you need the data, ask for the source

Re: [iText-questions] Barcode Image sizes

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
samirbukka...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to generate barcode using iText. I have generated it successfully in PDF format. I am trying to develop Web Application. Now, I want to generate it in Doc as well as in HTML format for preview purpose. Use the method that creates the

Re: [iText-questions] HTML Parser Blank Page in PDF

2009-06-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
dmholte wrote: Hi Bruno, the variable String HospNote contains the original html. The answer is very simple (explained in chapter 6 of the book), but I have some additional remarks: writer.setPageEvent(new ParseBuildPdf()); Using an event to add header/footers is good.

Re: [iText-questions] iText Document to Graphics2D

2009-06-17 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Dan Dubois wrote: Just looked at the source code and see the /p /h arguments that allow Acrobat Reader to print silently probably won't work on Preview. No, those are parameters specific for Adobe Reader (see Appendix C of iText in Action). The lpr unix command might though. PDF isn't

[iText-questions] RTF: Headers and footers always appear on all pages

2009-06-17 Thread Bruno Lowagie
jimmanico wrote: Hello. I'm trying to create a RTF document with headers and footers on every page EXCEPT the first page. I know (almost) everything about the PDF part of iText, but the RTF package is written by other developers. They usually skim the mailing list looking for RTF in the

Re: [iText-questions] Button in PDF Form

2009-06-16 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Sawan Jain wrote: Hi, The form which I’m using is AcroForm. Type of button is Push button. But when I tried to do GetFields, it returned empty string. pdfForm.GetFieldType(Save); // Returning 1 means its a Push button string abc = pdfForm.GetField(Save); // Returning empty string.

[iText-questions] iText 2.1.6 has been released

2009-06-16 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, I've just release iText 2.1.6. This release includes a lot of bug fixes posted in the last three months. It also brings new OCSP and timestamping functionality; support for rowspan in PdfPTable; and a lot more. You can find the changelog here: http://1t3xt.be/?Z000ac3 best regards,

Re: [iText-questions] iText 2.1.6 has been released

2009-06-16 Thread Bruno Lowagie
glen.ha...@auricnet.ca wrote: Rowspan YAY Bruno you're Awesome!!! Actually it was Jean-Philippe Gravel who provided some code that worked in some, but not all cases. I've spent a couple of weekends on it, and Jean-Philippe tested my work. I hope you'll give me feedback and good

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader not opened with owner password

2009-06-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Sorin Marti wrote: Hi all, I am a bit confused about the following error: Exception occurred during event dispatching: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: PdfReader not opened with owner password at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReaderInstance.getImportedPage(Unknown Source) at

Re: [iText-questions] Finding all Anchors within a PDF document

2009-06-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Robert Morse wrote: I'm aware they're used when CREATING a PDF. I was hopeful they could be detected (or at least their artifact) after the PDF was created as is the case with their link counterpart. The Anchor class write the content to the content stream at a specific location on the

Re: [iText-questions] alignment calculations wrong with character spacing

2009-06-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Bo Benson wrote: I'm not sure how to work around this. Wow, you're changing the state of the content stream, hoping PdfPTable will be able to pick up that change? That's not supposed to work; PdfPTable isn't aware of the state in cb and when splitting a String into lines, it can't take it

Re: [iText-questions] Put-Replace text at x,y

2009-06-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
beppecosta wrote: Hello, is there a way to scan a pdf for given string markers (like #1, #2, or similar patterns) and get their x,y coordinates ? No, that would be a very bad design decision. Step 2 would be to put some text or images or some other content right over these markers.

Re: [iText-questions] NullPointerException during creation/update of barcode object

2009-06-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
twinmar wrote: I was under the impression that when a new class was constructed, that all variables within that class are also constructed and that these variables could then be used. I'm not sure if this is an iText issue or my java. Any assistance on this issue would be most appreciated.

Re: [iText-questions] Put-Replace text at x,y

2009-06-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
beppecosta wrote: Hi Bruno, our user wants to design himself the layout of the final document using word or excel and then create a pdf with distiller or similar tools. The final document contains the skeleton of the application model with company images and some fixed data but a lot should be

Re: [iText-questions] NullPointerException during creation/update of barcode object

2009-06-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
twinmar wrote: Hi Bruno, Don't get me wrong - I'm not asking anyone to debug my code or write me new code - I just posted it in the hope that it might highlight an issue. OK, now that I know in which line to look. You declare a variable: public Barcode39 ipdfbar39; This line is

Re: [iText-questions] Button in PDF Form

2009-06-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Sawan Jain wrote: Hi, I have a PDF form, with couple of controls like: textboxes, buttons and checkboxes. Problem I'm facing is, I'm not able to change the color and font of these controls Isn't that straight forward? Did you look at the examples? http://1t3xt.be/?X19 Did you read

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