Well, as iText is becoming a pdf swiss knife, lacking support to append information is a flaw that must be taken care of. I'll see this weekend how to add the info without reading all the document. By the way, PdfStamper keeps all the information and in the right places even if it looks different.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: Leonard Rosenthol [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:14 > To: Kishore Subramanian; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Modifying Metadata > > At 2:33 PM -0800 3/19/03, Kishore Subramanian wrote: > >Actually I noticed that the contents of the file has been modified. > >When I open the generated file in Notepad, I can see some ascii > >values (the > >original file has non-printable binary characters .. which is expected). > > Can you send me an example of before and after? > > > >Are you saying that iText cannot modify just the MetaData without > >modifying the Contents. Can you point me to any such APIs that can > >do this ? > > > > iText won't modify the CONTENT of the PDF (ie. the stuff on > the pages) - but it WILL modify other related structures in the PDF > due to the way it currently works. > > If you ONLY want to touch the metadata fields, then you'll > want/need a different tool. > > > Leonard > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) > 215-629-0789 (fax) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Tablet PC. Does your code think in ink? You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing. What are you waiting for? http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
