Check that your BLOB is really binary. You may be experiencing the wonders of text charset conversion.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: semiosys [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 18:29 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] Writting pdf to sql DB, retreving the pdf > data... > > > Hi, > > I am new with Itext, and I am coming up with a small problem. > Have you already heard of it ? > > > > Instead of writing the PDF to the disk, I am writing it in a buffer (a > byte array, using ByteArrayOutputStream), to be able to write this > buffer in a mysql database (BLOB type). > > > Experiment 1: > 1. Generating the PDF document > 2. Using FileOutputStream to write it to the disk => PDF readable using > AcrobatReader > > Experiment 2: > 1. Generating the PDF document > 2. Using ByteArrayOutputStream to write it to a byte array > 3. Writing this byte array to a pdf file => PDF readable using > AcrobatReader > 4. Writing this byte array to a binary BLOB field in a mysql database. > Reading the same byte array from the database (this new byte array > having exactly the same size of the original one) => Acrobat reader show > a BLANK page. > > Strangely enough, writing the byte array to the database in a BLOB > field, transforms the bytes in a odd way (comparing the 2 pdf files with > emacs, they show tiny differences). > > Have your ever experienced such problem and find any solution to it? > Thanks, > Elie > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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
