Re: [iText-questions] Concatenate PDF documents using servlets

2007-12-03 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Bellamkonda, Ramesh (IE10) wrote: Hi I am new to iText, How can we Concatenate PDF documents using servlets.Please give me a example. I am able to do the same thing in a stand alone application. If you can do it in a standalone example, you can do it in a Servlet. Just write the PDF to a

[iText-questions] Concatenate PDF documents using servlets

2007-12-03 Thread Bellamkonda, Ramesh (IE10)
Hi I am new to iText, How can we Concatenate PDF documents using servlets.Please give me a example. I am able to do the same thing in a stand alone application. Thanks Regards Ramesh Concatenate PDF documents using servlets application -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [iText-questions] How to change a PDF but preserve the rights

2007-12-03 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
It _IS_ possible to fill in a PDF that has been Reader Enabled w/o violating the rights - but it MUST be done in a very specific fashion using append mode on the source PDF AND only modifying a limited number of objects in the PDF. So yes, if you are going to create a whole new PDF -

Re: [iText-questions] How to change a PDF but preserve the rights

2007-12-03 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Leonard Rosenthol wrote: It _IS_ possible to fill in a PDF that has been Reader Enabled w/o violating the rights - but it MUST be done in a very specific fashion using append mode on the source PDF AND only modifying a limited number of objects in the PDF. Sorry, I stand corrected. br,

[iText-questions] Sun bug id: 4949631 String.getBytes() does not work on some strings larger than 16MB

2007-12-03 Thread E . Mielke
Hi All, Has anyone encountered issues when using Itext on documents larger than 16 mb? There is an issue with the String.getBytes method; it appears to affect the StringBuffer class (since it uses getBytes) as well. Note that the bug in String.getBytes is fixed in the mustang release (Java 6).

Re: [iText-questions] How to change a PDF but preserve the rights

2007-12-03 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Nope and nope :(. Leonard On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Samuel B. Quiring wrote: Leonard, Is there any documentation anywhere on this? Do you know of an example iText program that I could look at? -Sam - Original Message - From: Leonard Rosenthol To: Post all your questions about

[iText-questions] Writing meta-data while document is open?

2007-12-03 Thread Howard Shank
Hi Bruno/Paulo, I am working with Mark Hall and the RTF code. In the iText Document class why is it not possible to add meta-data once the document is opened? Is this a technical limitation or a specific design limitation? The reason I ask is in the RTF specification, it is possible to parse

Re: [iText-questions] Writing meta-data while document is open?

2007-12-03 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Howard Shank wrote: Hi Bruno/Paulo, In the iText Document class why is it not possible to add meta-data once the document is opened? Is this a technical limitation or a specific design limitation? In the book, I explain the origin of this limitation. When I wrote the first versions of iText,

Re: [iText-questions] How to change a PDF but preserve the rights

2007-12-03 Thread Scott Dunbar
The PDF was authored so that it can be opened in Adobe Reader, fields in the form can be filled, and the form can be saved by Reader to the file system. I feel like I'm missing something. You've got a PDF that appears to have at least PdfWriter.ALLOW_FILL_IN. If the form has that

Re: [iText-questions] Writing meta-data while document is open?

2007-12-03 Thread Howard Shank
Thanks for your response. I've been reading sections of the book as needed to figure out particulars. Guess I didn't read that part on the background. I appreciate you explaining it. I'll poke around a bit and see what I can come up with as a suggestion. Regards, Howard Shank - Original

[iText-questions] Phrase containing Chunks/Phrase with multiple Run Directions

2007-12-03 Thread dayvidpow
Currently, in iText I can create a new Phrase object with a main font and then within the Phrase I can have additional Chunks or Phrases with different fonts. Therefore, likewise would it be possible to create a Phrase with a main run direction and then add additional Chunks or Phrases to it

Re: [iText-questions] Upgrading to Itext 2.0.6

2007-12-03 Thread E . Mielke
Thanks for the information. There is a possibly that we could have non-breaking spaces in our data; the source of the data in our app is an Oracle database. The data set spans several years (approx. 7 years ~ 500 GB in size). We are extracting data sets to pdf to serve as a special purpose

[iText-questions] PdfPTable column widths

2007-12-03 Thread Nik Kolev
Hi, I have a couple of questions regarding column widths in a PdfPTable. 1) Is there a quick, out-of-the-box way to tell the table to set each column width to the width of the cell (among the cells in the column) with the maximum width? 2) If not, what's the best approach that you