The plot thickens. I said before the StartCharMetrics error only occurred when I ran the jar from a particular server. That was not quite correct. It turns out that if I run the applet from that server on a Mac OS X machine there is no problem. So here is the scoreboard:
WinXP over home LAN works WinXP across internet from private server doesn't work Win2K across internet from private server doesn't work Mac OS X across internet from private server DOES work Unfortunately I now MUST use 0.94 I ran into a bug in the Graphics code for 0.92 that was dropping some of my output. I will continue to look for this, and will attempt to build the source for iText. > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig Earls > Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 11:01 AM > To: Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] StartCharMetrics not found in 0.94 > > > Attached is a verbose listing of the jar file that throws the > StartChar metrics errors when run from certain servers. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paulo Soares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:22 PM > > To: Craig Earls; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] StartCharMetrics not found in 0.94 > > > > > > The problem is not the URL size. I'll wait for the listing. > > > > Best Regards, > > Paulo Soares > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Craig Earls [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 18:16 > > > To: Paulo Soares ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] StartCharMetrics not found in 0.94 > > > > > > I won't be able to get that listing for a few hours. Could it be > > > something about the LENGTH of the path to the afm file? > The server > > > that breaks it gives a pretty long URL > > > (http://carbon.xpogen.com/xad/tool/RNViewer/RNViewer.jar is > > something > > > like the actaul URL the server generates to send the jar > > file) . The > > > servers it works on are fairly short > > > (http://192.168.1.100/~cpearls/Sites/RNViewer.jar) Does > > that explain > > > the difference between 0.94 and 0.92 ? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Paulo Soares > > > To: Craig Earls; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: 9/19/2002 12:41 PM > > > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] StartCharMetrics not found in 0.94 > > > > > > The thrown error line is: > > > > > > throw new DocumentException("Missing StartCharMetrics in " + > > > fileName); > > > > > > This can happen if the afm file is truncated. Can you send me the > > > listing with the directories, names and sizes of what you > > have in your > > > jar? > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Paulo Soares > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Craig Earls [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 17:28 > > > > To: Paulo Soares ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] StartCharMetrics > not found in 0.94 > > > > > > > > Hard to give details, but I'll try. The applet is packaged with > > > > iText > > > and > > > > several other jar files included in a single jar file. > > That removes > > > any > > > > problems I have with CLASSPATHS, I think. It alos makes a more > > > reliable > > > > download (The 'applet' is over 2MB, don't ask why, I just > > write what > > > the > > > > spec tells me to write :). > > > > > > > > It works when served from a static site, but when served > > through our > > > > dynamical server (AOLServer) it breaks. I have been > > unable to detact > > > any > > > > difference between the jar that comes out of the > > AOLServer and a jar > > > that > > > > works as expected. And as I said going back to 0.92 works > > > > completely, which totally mystifies me. > > > > > > > > If you can give some places to look I will be glad to > help trouble > > > shoot > > > > this, but I am not certain where even to try to track > > this down as > > > > it apparently is strangely platform dependent. (Java: > write once, > > > > test > > > > everywhere) > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Paulo Soares > > > > To: Craig Earls; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: 9/19/2002 11:03 AM > > > > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] StartCharMetrics not > found in 0.94 > > > > > > > > The fonts are now stored as files inside the jar. I don't > > know why > > > > it doesn't work. Can you give some more details on your > > > > configuration, architecture, etc? > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Paulo Soares > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Craig Earls [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:13 > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Subject: [iText-questions] StartCharMetrics not > > found in 0.94 > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > Congratulations on iText. It is a VERY useful > > tool. I was using > > > > > 0.92 for sometime in an Applet environment, and when > I switch to > > > 0.94 > > > > I > > > > > go some VERY strange results. When testing the applet > > on my local > > > > > machine, or on my iMac sitting on my home LAN, everything was > > > > > fine. > > > > But > > > > > when I put the applet out on my primary server I got "Error: > > > > > StartCharMetrics not found" for every font I tried to > use, even > > > > > the normal fonts (supposedly "built-in"). When I > > reverted to 0.92 > > > > > the problem disappeared. Any clues on this one? I am > > content to > > > > > stick > > > > with > > > > > 0.92 it does everything I need, but I was surprised by > > the error. > > > > > > > > > > Craig Earls > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > > > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > > > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > iText-questions mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
