Yea, i tested that line too. But for me, it didn't
make any difference when I included it or not.
Damn browswer bugs/inconsistencies.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I ran into some other odd problems opening documents
> so I also added in
> addition to those below to correct them:
>
> response.setHeader("Pragma", "public");
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of
> Woodchuck
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 1:21 PM
> To: itext
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Struts Framework and
> iText
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for your reply. My original code was
> correct,
> and it was basically the same as yours in terms of
> the
> steps. I think the important steps are
> setContentType(), and setContentLength().
>
> I was getting a blank page because of my IE version
> (6.0.2800.1106), it requires me to add the following
> to see the pdf:
>
> response.setHeader("Cache-Control",
> "must-revalidate,
> post-check=0, pre-check=0");
>
> after hours of tweaking and trial and error I
> stumbled
> on the workaround by accident.
>
>
> --- Michael K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > that works for me:
> >
> > ... building PDF ...
> > then finish it
> > // add a page break
> > document.newPage();
> >
> > // step 5: we close the document (the
> > outputstream is also
> > closed
> > // internally)
> > document.close();
> > // we have written the pdfstream to a
> > ByteArrayOutputStream,
> > // now we are going to write this
> > outputStream to the
> > // ServletOutputStream
> > // after we have set the contentlength
> >
> > response.setContentType("application/pdf");
> >
> >
>
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename=fileName.pdf")
> > ;
> >
> response.setContentLength(baos.size());
> > ServletOutputStream out =
> > response.getOutputStream();
> > baos.writeTo(out);
> > out.flush();
> > ... catch block ...
> >
> > then
> > return null; // in ActionForward execute()
> >
> > Best Regards.
> > Michael.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Woodchuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 10:55 AM
> > Subject: [iText-questions] Struts Framework and
> > iText
> >
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have tried many times tweaking different
> things
> > but I keep getting a
> > blank
> > > page instead of the PDF file.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how to get iText working within
> > the Struts framework? In
> > my
> > > Action class execute() function I do this:
> > >
> > > - create the PDF file as a ByteArrayOutputStream
> > > - flush this to the ServletOutputStream
> > > - return null
> > >
> > > I know the PDF file is created correctly because
> > when I swap a
> > FileOutputStream
> > > object for the ByteArrayOutputStream object, the
> > PDF is physically created
> > > locally on my hard drive.
> > >
> > > I don't know what I'm doing wrong but here's my
> > execute() function:
> > >
> > > public ActionForward execute(
> > > ActionMapping mapping,
> > > ActionForm form,
> > > HttpServletRequest request,
> > > HttpServletResponse response)
> > > throws Exception
> > > {
> > > Document myDoc = new
> > Document(PageSize.LETTER.rotate(), 0, 0, 0, 0);
> > > ByteArrayOutputStream pdfStream = new
> > ByteArrayOutputStream();
> > > PdfWriter writer = null;
> > >
> > > try {
> > >
> > >
> > > //writer =
> > PdfWriter.getInstance(myDoc, new FileOutputStream
> > > ("MYTEST.pdf"));
> > > writer =
> PdfWriter.getInstance(myDoc,
> > pdfStream);
> > >
> > > myDoc.addTitle("My PDF Test");
> > > myDoc.addSubject("My PDF Subject");
> > >
> > > myDoc.open();
> > >
> > > Paragraph paragraph = new
> Paragraph();
> > >
> > paragraph.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED);
> > > for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
> > > paragraph.add("TESTING PDF FILE
> > BODY TEXT TESTING PDF FILE
> > BODY
> > > TEXT TESTING PDF FILE BODY TEXT TESTING PDF FILE
> > BODY TEXT");
> > > }
> > > myDoc.add(paragraph);
> > >
> > > myDoc.close();
> > >
> > >
> > response.setContentType("application/pdf");
> > >
> > >
> > response.setContentLength(pdfStream.size());
> > >
> > > ServletOutputStream sos;
> > >
> > > sos = response.getOutputStream();
> > >
> > > sos.write(pdfStream.toByteArray());
> > > //pdfStream.writeTo(sos);
> > >
> > >
> > > sos.flush();
> > >
> > > } catch (DocumentException de){}
> > > catch (IOException io){}
> > >
> > > return null;
> > >
> > > }
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
>
>
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