Re: [iText-questions] Help Bruno Out !

2007-01-18 Thread Matt Benson
The only problem with this suggestion is that if there are no ridiculous questions on the mailing list, I won't have Paulo's snippy answers to make me laugh. ;) -Matt --- robert engels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have monitored this list for quite a while now, and I am amazed by the

Re: [iText-questions] book review 'iText in Action'

2006-12-07 Thread Matt Benson
Great job, Bruno. I hope to purchase the book soon. I noticed that on the Manning site it's not cross-referenced from the Java section, which I feel is bad for would-be buyers and thus for Manning as a company. I mention it just in case you have any influence here... :) br, Matt --- Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] iText license

2006-10-06 Thread Matt Benson
What problems do you have with MPL and LGPL? --- Marcel Janál [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear authors, we would like to use iText as a library for working with PDF documents (creating, signing etc.). We have a problem with both licenses of your library (MPL and LGPL). Is it possible to get

RE: Re: [iText-questions] PDFReader doesn't Garbage Collect

2006-04-28 Thread Matt Benson
sourceforge anonymous CVS access has been unavailable all month. It may be back in a few more days... ? :( -Matt --- Elvis Novas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paulo, I have not been able to login to cvs following the instructions from http://www.lowagie.com/iText/cvs.html using wincvs or

[iText-questions] Fwd: Don't convert XmlToHtml

2006-01-03 Thread Matt Benson
The iText forum is the proper place for this question, not private email. Further, you will have to provide a great deal more information as to what you expect to happen that is not happening before I or anyone else has any hope of helping you. -Matt --- sanjay khandelwal [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [iText-questions] PDF to PCL (or PDF to POSTSCRIPT)

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Benson
Google for ghostPcl. --- Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. - Original Message - From: Monkey Punch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:13 PM Subject: [iText-questions] PDF to PCL (or PDF to POSTSCRIPT)

Re: [iText-questions] FW: Request for U.S. Export Information -Lowagie Classes- iText.0 .92.jar

2005-04-19 Thread Matt Benson
Doesn't this presume (mostly incorrectly) that iText is developed in the US? -Matt --- TRANS GET Software License Manager, (GE Trans) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GE Transportation is in the process of reviewing your software product Lowagie Classes-iText.0.92.jar. In order to determine

Re: [iText-questions] PDF to PCL

2004-11-17 Thread Matt Benson
--- Rémi Guilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, do you know what can I do to convert pdf file to pcl file (on Unix) ? I need to use duplex functionnality. Never forget ghostScript for tasks just such as this! -Matt Thank's !! Rémi __

Re: [iText-questions] Future of iText

2004-09-08 Thread Matt Benson
Paulo is doing the most part of new development. He releases an itext-paulo version much more often than Bruno releases an official iText version, but every official iText version AFAIK rolls up the latest of Paulo's work. HTH, Matt --- Steve Appling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone

Re: [iText-questions] Any way to autosize column widths for tables

2004-07-23 Thread Matt Benson
What do you mean by manually? Relative widths work for me. You could subclass Table to do different things but since iText already wraps Cell content I don't expect any external algorithm to do much better than what you'll get by using relative widths. No calculation, just--honestly--gut feel on

Re: [iText-questions] help reading barcodes

2004-06-18 Thread Matt Benson
Check JPEDAL and/or PdfBox for that functionality. -Matt --- Frank Sharpless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am attempting to read bar codes from a PDF file. However, my barcode reader software requires that the page to be read is a Java Image object. Is there a way to

Re: [iText-questions] Toastscript

2004-05-26 Thread Matt Benson
There's always ghostScript, which is great. However I seem to recall this conversation taking place on this list before which ended with a member having a copy. Search the archives. -Matt --- Dipankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I urgently need a tool to convert postscript to text. I know

Re: [iText-questions] Fast Web View

2004-04-30 Thread Matt Benson
Check out Leonard's company at www.pdfsages.com . They have a product called PdfEnhancer that can do this more... -Matt --- = k3Rn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! A PDF File can have the option to be faster viewable on the web, does iText has a method to change / set this option? I

Re: [iText-questions] Fast Web View

2004-04-30 Thread Matt Benson
--- = k3Rn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That prodict is very expensive and i the question was if you can do that with iText. I would have thought it obvious that the answer was NO since I directed you to a commercial product, and I can't say that I particularly care for your attitude towards

RE: [iText-questions] howto stop grayscale jpg lightening automat ically on output to pd f?

2004-03-24 Thread Matt Benson
--- Menke, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, thanks for getting back to me. I have not used the Image constructor directly because i need get my images as a stream and there does not appear to be a constructor that matches with inputStream. Instead of public constructors, Image

Re: [iText-questions] streaming jpeg into PdfContentByte

2004-03-23 Thread Matt Benson
--- Menke, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MY QUESTION IS THIS. CAN I create a rendered image with a JPEGDecodeParam() instead of the TIFFDecodeParam and if so what do i use as params for the JAI.create method. I can't find a reference for valid operator names for the JAI.create method

RE: [iText-questions] PDF/X-3 compliant attributes

2004-03-16 Thread Matt Benson
--- Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No member of the team said that there aren't plans to support PDF/X in the future. As you saw, iText Yes, and it bothered me when I saw that remark. I remember approximately the comments from which it was derived, but I felt this last comment

Re: [iText-questions] PdfReader

2004-02-26 Thread Matt Benson
--- karl wettin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just stubled over iText as I'm looking for way to extract the text elements of a PDF for storage in a text index (Apache Lucene). iText is many things, but its emphasis is not in this area. My goal is a subclassed PdfReader with a convenience

RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question...

2004-02-18 Thread Matt Benson
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Benson Sent: Wednesday, 14 January 2004 3:33 AM To: Dunstall, Christopher Cc: itext-questions Subject: RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question... keep the list copied! :) Regarding the above, in addition to the basic iText jar, do you have

RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question...

2004-02-18 Thread Matt Benson
University E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 2 63384818 Fax: +61 2 63384181 Mobile: +61 0438 324 180 ~~ -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2004 9:50 AM To: Dunstall

Fwd: RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question...

2004-02-18 Thread Matt Benson
~~ -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2004 10:04 AM To: Dunstall, Christopher Cc: itext-questions Subject: RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question... What version of xerces? -Matt --- Dunstall, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes

Re: [iText-questions] Sample Code: Export PDF to JPG

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Benson
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=myfile.jpg myfile.pdf ;) -Matt --- Scott Sprout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a good sample of code converting a pdf file to a jpg file? Thanks, Scott Sprout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question...

2004-01-13 Thread Matt Benson
: +61 0438 324 180 ~~ -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 9:31 AM To: Dunstall, Christopher Cc: itext-questions Subject: RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question

RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question...

2004-01-13 Thread Matt Benson
How does that even work with that embedded, apparently non-quoted space in your -classpath argument? --- Dunstall, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use JDeveloper, so it runs it internally, not from a commandline as such... guess I would try to cut out any middlemen when trying to

Re: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question...

2004-01-12 Thread Matt Benson
It might help if you gave us at least an approximation of the full block of HTML that was being parsed. -Matt --- Dunstall, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone? :) Pretty Please? ;) ~~ Chris Dunstall Analyst Programmer Admin Computing

RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question...

2004-01-12 Thread Matt Benson
~~ -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 9:22 AM To: Dunstall, Christopher; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question... It might help if you gave us at least an approximation of the full

RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question...

2004-01-12 Thread Matt Benson
Computing Bathurst Campus Charles Sturt University E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 2 63384818 Fax: +61 2 63384181 Mobile: +61 0438 324 180 ~~ -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: FW: [iText-questions] HTML to PDF Question...

2004-01-12 Thread Matt Benson
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 2 63384818 Fax: +61 2 63384181 Mobile: +61 0438 324 180 ~~ -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 9:31 AM To: Dunstall, Christopher Cc: itext

Re: [iText-questions] iText with Rich Design

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Benson
See the Advanced iText portions of the tutorial, as well as the rest of it, really... :) some important classes for colors images: PdfContentByte, PdfTemplate, Image, etc... some important classes for formatting: PdfContentByte, ColumnText, Table, PdfPTable... -Matt --- Spectrum WebDesign

Re: [iText-questions] pdf print?!?

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Benson
But you just want it to print to the user's default (Windows) printer? You could do it, for example, if you sent the printer path to the servlet, assuming the servlet runs on Windows OR you have already set up your Unix server to be able to print to each of however many Windows printers may be

Re: [iText-questions] pdf print?!?

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Benson
,... is the javaservlet solution possible? okay, sure javascript, but the user can change the printouts from one to whatever,. but any user are allowed only one printout! thanks jonas - Original Message - From: Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wendy Smoak [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [iText-questions] pdf print?!?

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Benson
] wrote: sure, but i dont wont to transfer any pdf directly to the user. i want to print the pdf (stored on the server) over the browser (javaservlet) directly to the users printer, if he push a print button at the servlet... :) - Original Message - From: Matt Benson [EMAIL

Re: [iText-questions] Help with page break

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Benson
I am assuming you are seeing the page break character, whose ASCII value is 12. You should be able to just look for this character and call Document.newPage() whenever it is encountered. -Matt --- Wendy Smoak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently transforming a text file into a pdf with

Re: [iText-questions] Help with page break

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Benson
, reportPage[i], FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.COURIER, 7.5f))); } -Matt --- Wendy Smoak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am assuming you are seeing the page break character, whose ASCII value is 12. You should be able to just look for this character

Re: [iText-questions] Question about adding images to existing PDF

2003-12-10 Thread Matt Benson
This can be done using the Barcode and PdfStamper classes. In general, you should probably: -create a PdfReader to read your source PDF and obtain its page count -create a PdfStamper to write the stamped output -create your Barcode subclass instance (eg Barcode39) -get a PdfTemplate from your

[iText-questions] Font types question

2003-11-21 Thread Matt Benson
Any ideas on the most terse way to get from COURIER BOLD UNDERLINE to a corresponding Font or BaseFont instance? Thanks, Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ---

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Thumbnails

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Benson
You may want to try JPEDAL, perhaps in conjunction with the awt or jai classes as you suggest. -Matt --- Scott Sprout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was a misunderstanding -- i was referring to the use of iText libraries with sun's libraries that perform graphics operations, such as the

RE: [iText-questions] PDF version and Fast Web View

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Benson
--- Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iText doesn't do linearising. To plug Leonard's stuff, his PDF Enhancer product will produce linearized PDF: www.pdfsages.com -Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

Re: [iText-questions] pls help me

2003-08-26 Thread Matt Benson
This is not recommended as JSP is not very well suited to create binary output: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#jsp --- Naveen Reddy Gudipally [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Iam able to generate a pdf using java.Now if i want to generate it using jsp then what to do.Pls help me.

Re: [iText-questions] Ascii to PDF converter

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Benson
This is a FAQ: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#preformattedtext -Matt --- Huttin Pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to make an ASCII to PDF converter. Before recreating the wheel, I'm searching if anyone has already made this, if yes and if it's possible, where can I

Re: [iText-questions] Any plans to support tif files for Image?

2003-07-31 Thread Matt Benson
I believe the reason it is not supported is because TIFF is multipage, and so contains multiple images. -Matt --- David Thielen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks - dave __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

RE: [iText-questions] Any plans to support tif files for Image?

2003-07-31 Thread Matt Benson
: gif - full support bmp - full support png - full support jpg - rgb and cymk 8 bit and monochrome wmf - no bmp or patterns Best Regards, Paulo Soares /paulo's message -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:33 AM

Re: [iText-questions] Any plans to support tif files for Image?

2003-07-31 Thread Matt Benson
message -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:33 AM To: David Thielen; itext Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Any plans to support tif files for Image? I believe the reason it is not supported is because TIFF is multipage

Re: [iText-questions] Acro form in existing pdf

2003-07-24 Thread Matt Benson
What would be the difference between these two approaches regarding the database data: 1) Add the data as precisely-positioned text. 2) Add precisely-positioned data fields and populate. ? -Matt --- Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:49 PM +0200 7/24/03, Martin Abrahamsson wrote:

Re: [iText-questions] Compare PDF documents

2003-07-20 Thread Matt Benson
Leonard had it. I was talking about using a pure image rendering of each PDF, then comparing those. Might work, might not. -Matt --- Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 7:52 PM +0200 7/19/03, Andreas Probst wrote: Thank you both Matt and Leonard for your replies. Unfortunately

Re: [iText-questions] Compare PDF documents

2003-07-18 Thread Matt Benson
I have just hit the Multivalent site for the first time and it looks pretty good. Are there any things to be aware of? How would you compare the three packages, Leonard? -Matt --- Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:12 AM -0700 7/17/03, Matt Benson wrote: if you wanted to compare

Re: [iText-questions] Compare PDF documents

2003-07-17 Thread Matt Benson
Depending on what you want to compare, you could have some options... if you wanted to compare the text, you could use some form of text extraction from JPEDAL, PdfBox, or one more I can never think of... and compare the text, or generate checksums from text and compare those (works for me). if

Re: [iText-questions] creating a chart and saving it as PDF

2003-07-14 Thread Matt Benson
Look for JFreeChart. -Matt --- klute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All i need to generate a basic bar chart and then add it to the PDF created with iText. I have not really seen any references to the ability to create charts in the docs for iText. Cna someone tell me if it is possible

Re: [iText-questions] Search in PDF

2003-07-14 Thread Matt Benson
JPEDAL - versatility PdfBox - ease-of-use -Matt --- Ben Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible, using iText or possibly another library, to search for text within PDF files? -- Ben Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

RE: [iText-questions] Page size

2003-07-10 Thread Matt Benson
Have you tried it? If your printer driver sends the sizes your printer may be able to figure it out. For example, I think there is a better than 50% chance that an HP-LaserJet could do it, assuming the physical printer is set up to know what types of paper are in it. -Matt --- Schmickel, Xan

Re: [iText-questions] OT: java pdf reader

2003-07-10 Thread Matt Benson
You may be able to use some stuff from JPEDAL, but I think there are other solutions as well. -Matt --- Roberto Cipollini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Sorry for thuis off topic email. I hope anyone would mind :P I'm searching for a java pdf reader to boundle with my classes instead of

Re: [iText-questions] Searching an existing PDF

2003-06-27 Thread Matt Benson
You want to use JPEDAL (power) or PdfBox (ease-of-use). -Matt --- Lee W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I have just come across itext and am really impressed. However I have read though the tutorial and still have what I hope is an easy question. Is it possible to do simple

Re: [iText-questions] Example of HTML please wait screen before PDF generation

2003-06-25 Thread Matt Benson
You're setting objects as session attributes, like a Map of key-value pairs tied to the HTTP session. -Matt --- Kenny G. Dubuisson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno: In the sample code you gave me, I don't understand what a couple of lines are doing. The first one is:

Re: Re: [iText-questions] Newbie's prob

2003-06-24 Thread Matt Benson
See my previous response. -Matt --- Hubert Lingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And by the way do not forget to set the content type !!! (application/pdf) Hubert From: Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uwe Kristmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: itext-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re

Re: Re: [iText-questions] Newbie's prob

2003-06-24 Thread Matt Benson
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

RE: [iText-questions] reduce size of PDFs with huge fonts

2003-06-24 Thread Matt Benson
What about using gs to distill the pdf (pdf - ps - pdf? I had good results with that at one time... -Matt --- Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This 150K are with TT fonts? If you need small document just use the built-in fonts. You'll need other tool, such as ghostscript, to convert

RE: [iText-questions] reduce size of PDFs with huge fonts

2003-06-24 Thread Matt Benson
Also, you might look into Leonard's PDF Enhancer: http://www.pdfsages.com -Matt --- Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about using gs to distill the pdf (pdf - ps - pdf? I had good results with that at one time... -Matt --- Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This 150K

Re: Re: [iText-questions] Newbie's prob

2003-06-23 Thread Matt Benson
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

Re: [iText-questions] Newbie's prob

2003-06-20 Thread Matt Benson
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

Re: [iText-questions] XMLWriter

2003-06-18 Thread Matt Benson
As I recall, the HtmlWriter does this automagically. I would imagine the XmlWriter would do the same. -Matt --- Big MAC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - What I was wondering is if the XMLWriter would handle the transformation of special characters like to amp; , and

RE: [iText-questions] Bar code

2003-06-17 Thread Matt Benson
Skip the BaseFont instantiation: myBarcode39.setFont(null); -Matt --- Bradley Glonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stupid question. How do you set the font to null? I've tried BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(null, null); Code39.setfont(bf); I'm getting complaints about the way I'm

Re: [iText-questions] Re: search a string from pdf file

2003-06-17 Thread Matt Benson
Yep, you're probably better off using something else. Most notable are JPedal and PdfBox, with the latter being simpler and the former having more features. -Matt --- Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Is that posible to read a string from a input pdf file?

Re: [iText-questions] Locking Documents using iText

2003-06-17 Thread Matt Benson
When you write the PDFs, use the method PdfWriter.setEncryption() and set it with the constants provided in PdfWriter: Allow*. You might want to start with zero/no permissions and see what that does? -Matt --- Subbiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using iText to convert text documents

Re: [iText-questions] Spacing between lines

2003-06-17 Thread Matt Benson
use setLeading(). -Matt --- Subbiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to reduce the space between 2 lines during conversion of text file into a pdf file. Kindly look at the attached pdf. Thank you for your help. I am using this: String line; while((line

Re: [iText-questions] Bar code

2003-06-16 Thread Matt Benson
To suppress the text, set the font to null. -Matt --- Bradley Glonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to set the text below the bar code different than the data that is bar coded? Alternatively is there a way not to print that text. Thanks Brad

Re: [iText-questions] linearization(optimization) of PDF

2003-06-13 Thread Matt Benson
If you want to linearize existing PDFs, take a look at PdfEnhancer from PDF Sages http://www.pdfsages.com . -Matt --- $B6L1[(B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if iText can linearize(optimize) generated (or existing) PDFs. Is it possible? best regards.

Re: [iText-questions] Fonts on Unix

2003-06-12 Thread Matt Benson
Add some? If you install ghostPcl you could get a lot of (pretty much) openly-licensed fonts that way... downside: they are installed in /windows/fonts. -Matt --- Dimiceli, John - OSHA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I use different fonts on a UNIX machine that may not have the extensive

RE: [iText-questions] Fonts on Unix

2003-06-12 Thread Matt Benson
somewhere on my UNIX OS, then the file referenced in BaseFont.createFont. I assume if using anything other than a TYPE 1 font, the safe thing is to embed the font in the document to ensure the document renders as developed. -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [iText-questions] (no subject)

2003-06-09 Thread Matt Benson
FYI: I searched for pfb afm font generate on Google and found a link to a script http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/t1tools/makeafm -Matt --- Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iText does not support PCL fonts. To use PFB fonts you'll also need the AFM file. This AFM file is

Re: [iText-questions] Linearized PDF

2003-06-05 Thread Matt Benson
True, iText does not support linearized PDF. Check out Leonard's PdfEnhancer tool at www.pdfsages.com. -Matt --- Jerold Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From everything I have read so far it appears that iText does not support linearized PDF. Is this true? If so, is anyone aware of a

Re: [iText-questions] Win32 port of iText

2003-06-04 Thread Matt Benson
You already know about iTextdotnet on sourceforge? -Matt --- Volker Schnuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, is there a win32 port of iText availabe? We need exactly the described functionality in a single system scenario (Visual C++ or Visual Basic). Any ideas? Best regards, Volker.

Re: [iText-questions] Extending iText classes

2003-05-31 Thread Matt Benson
I'm not sure what is wrong, but it is possible and encouraged that you should extend the iText elements when necessary. -Matt --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm in the situation with a project where I'd like to extend some of the iText classes (such as Chunk, Paragraph, and

Re: [iText-questions] Question about line height for paging

2003-05-30 Thread Matt Benson
There is a FAQ entry on this that appears to advocate putting the entire contents of the file into a String and adding that to the document in a single Paragraph. http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#preformattedtext -Matt --- Alex, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a problem with

Re: [iText-questions] Using servlet for merging files

2003-05-29 Thread Matt Benson
And what problem are you experiencing? -Matt --- v b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to do the following: 1. create one page pdf file with some content 2. import multiple pdf files 3. concat everything into one document and show this document in the browser. Note everything

Re: [iText-questions] Using servlet for merging files

2003-05-29 Thread Matt Benson
pdf. Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:And what problem are you experiencing? -Matt --- v b wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to do the following: 1. create one page pdf file with some content 2. import multiple pdf files 3. concat everything into one document and show this document

Re: [iText-questions] indexing PDF content

2003-04-04 Thread Matt Benson
an open source Java API. :) I'm cheap. Thanks, Matt --- Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:03 PM 4/3/2003 -0800, Matt Benson wrote: Does anyone (Leonard) know of a package that will do this, or should I implement parsing text from one of JPedal or PdfBox

Re: [iText-questions] indexing PDF content

2003-04-04 Thread Matt Benson
That's where I was leaning. Thanks, Leonard. -Matt --- Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:07 AM 4/4/2003 -0800, Matt Benson wrote: Actually what I wanted to do with the content almost amounts to metrics: I want to run through the text and check each word against some REs

[iText-questions] indexing PDF content

2003-04-03 Thread Matt Benson
Does anyone (Leonard) know of a package that will do this, or should I implement parsing text from one of JPedal or PdfBox? Thanks, Matt __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

Re: [iText-questions] only one printing

2003-03-31 Thread Matt Benson
I guess my question, notwithstanding Leonard's direct answer, would be what is the purpose of this restriction? -Matt --- HELLEBOID David (CAMPUS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Using Itext and tomcat, I have to generate pdf bills that have to be printed only one time. I managed not to

RE: [iText-questions] New release itext-paulo-113

2003-03-26 Thread Matt Benson
-Original Message- From: Matt Benson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 15:43 To: Paulo Soares; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:Re: [iText-questions] New release itext-paulo-113 Nice, but out of curiosity, why did you decide not to add

RE: [iText-questions] rotation

2003-03-26 Thread Matt Benson
This looks handy and useful! Thanks! -Matt --- Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the code in PdfContentByte.addImage(). Best Regards, Paulo Soares -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 20:26

Re: [iText-questions] Portuguese IRS uses iText

2003-03-26 Thread Matt Benson
:) --- Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity I got today my electronic tax declaration in PDF and, surprise, was made with itext-paulo-112. Best Regards, Paulo Soares --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The

RE: [iText-questions] New release itext-paulo-113

2003-03-26 Thread Matt Benson
: Matt Benson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 17:22 To: Paulo Soares; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: [iText-questions] New release itext-paulo-113 I know--is the implication that this method's existence might be misleading to the new user

Re: [iText-questions] New release itext-paulo-113

2003-03-26 Thread Matt Benson
Message - From: Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 17:47 Subject: RE: [iText-questions] New release itext-paulo-113 I could live with that. I just figure I probably won't be the last person to want

Re: [iText-questions] New release itext-paulo-113

2003-03-25 Thread Matt Benson
Nice, but out of curiosity, why did you decide not to add a corresponding setMetadata method? -Matt --- Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Changes in itext-paulo-113 (2003-03-25) - added a new arabic shaper with farsi support. - FdfWriter will also output the fields from a

Re: [iText-questions] rotation

2003-03-25 Thread Matt Benson
calculations. This is all explained in chapter 4.2 of the PDF reference 1.4. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: itext-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 21:11 Subject: [iText-questions] rotation I am

RE: [iText-questions] write.os is not visible

2003-03-25 Thread Matt Benson
I had the same problem as Sandy and Bruno. Technically, the protected os reference is defined in com.lowagie.text. This should be visible within the package and to subclasses. Therefore it should not be visible to PdfBody, and this is consistent with the error we receive. However when I try to

Re: [iText-questions] pdf file in IE

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
I think there are two problems: One, IE wants to know the size of the PDF as you send it. This means you can't write your PDF directly to your ServletOutputStream. You have to write to a ByteArrayOutputStream so that you can set the stream size on your ServletOutputStream. The second problem

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
Code looks good to me; however judging from the stack trace I would say that whichever imported page you tried to add at line 36 of your code was null. If so, your problem is not here, but with that PDF. -Matt --- Andrew McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I've been taking a stab at

[iText-questions] horizontal alignment on keepTogether Paragraphs

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
Never got an answer on this, I apparently had a patch to PdfDocument that transferred the horizontal alignment of a keepTogether Paragraph to the wrapping Table. Does this work in some other automagic fashion or does the change need to go into the codebase? Thanks, Matt --- Matt Benson [EMAIL

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
, at 12:06 PM, Matt Benson wrote: Code looks good to me; however judging from the stack trace I would say that whichever imported page you tried to add at line 36 of your code was null. If so, your problem is not here, but with that PDF. -Matt --- Andrew McLaughlin [EMAIL

Re: [iText-questions] PDF's as Templates

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Benson
=yes; x-mac-creator=3F3F3F3F; x-unix-mode=0644; x-mac-type=50444620; name=Picture 1.pdf TIA! :) Andrew On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Matt Benson wrote: Still, according to that section of code, there are two places where the NPE could be thrown: one, at prs.addXObject

Re: [iText-questions] PDF to TIFF

2003-03-20 Thread Matt Benson
In fairness, won't ImageMagick use ghostScript to make this conversion? -Matt --- Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:32 PM 3/20/2003 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: How do i create a tiff image of the pdf pagees in a file. what i need is to know how to convert a pdf page to a tiff

[iText-questions] rotation

2003-03-20 Thread Matt Benson
I am using the following values to assist with (clockwise) rotation: 90 degrees: 0, -1, 1, 0, 0, rect.height() 180 degrees: -1, 0, 0, -1, rect.width(), rect.height() 270 degrees: 0, 1, -1, 0, rect.width(), 0 0/360 degrees: 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0 Paulo gave me the values for 90 and 0/360 ages ago and I

Re: Fw: [iText-questions] Convert PDF into HTML

2003-03-18 Thread Matt Benson
Don't forget what ghostScript offers in the way of simple text extraction. Simpler to use than JPedal but not Java, either... -Matt --- Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:17 AM -0300 3/18/03, Thiago Costa wrote: Can i extract the plain text ? No. If you want

Re: [iText-questions] Is 0.97 safe to use?

2003-03-17 Thread Matt Benson
I believe they were just build issues, were they not? I'm fine, but I'm currently using only a small subset of functionality... -Matt --- David Thielen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; Did the problems people had with 0.97 all get fixed? thanks - dave

Re: [iText-questions] modifying metadata

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Benson
Oops. :) Okay, thanks for the solution, Paulo! -Matt --- Paulo Soares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And now you have a stream as a direct object, which is illegal. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paulo Soares [EMAIL

Re: [iText-questions] modifying metadata

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Benson
Except that when I tried your solution, I found that PdfIndirectReference and PdfWriter.addToBody() are both package-private so I can't get to them without modifying the library... :( -Matt --- Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops. :) Okay, thanks for the solution, Paulo! -Matt

RE: [iText-questions] modifying metadata

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Benson
in the package com.lowagie.text.pdf. Best Regards, Paulo Soares -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 15:36 To: Paulo Soares; itext-questions Subject:Re: [iText-questions] modifying metadata Except

RE: [iText-questions] modifying metadata

2003-03-13 Thread Matt Benson
. Best Regards, Paulo Soares -Original Message- From: Matt Benson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 15:42 To: Paulo Soares; itext-questions Subject:RE: [iText-questions] modifying metadata I'll modify as long as I know I can have them

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