RE: [iText-questions] Can I embed Movies, Flash, etc using iText?

Paulo Soares Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:25:26 -0800

Title: Re: [iText-questions] Can I embed Movies, Flash, etc using iText?

Here's my code:

public class embimage {

public static void main(String[] args) {

        Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50, 50);
        try {
            PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("c:\\embimage.pdf"));
            writer.setPdfVersion(PdfWriter.VERSION_1_5);
            document.open();
            PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
            cb.setColorStroke(Color.red);
            cb.rectangle(200, 400, 100, 100);
            cb.stroke();
            document.add(new Paragraph("Images"));
            PdfFileSpecification fs = PdfFileSpecification.fileEmbedded(writer, "saitoz-n.mpeg", "saitoz-n.mpeg", null);
            PdfAnnotation annot = PdfAnnotation.createScreen(writer, new Rectangle(200f, 400f, 300f, 500f), "saitoz-n.mpeg",fs,"video/mpeg",false);
            writer.addAnnotation(annot);
            document.close();
        }
        catch (Exception de) {
            de.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Best Regards,

Paulo Soares

From: Tom Groves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:18 PM
To: Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can I embed Movies, Flash, etc using iText?

Paulo,

Yep, that does work – how odd. Well everything points to a stupid mistake in my code but I’m not having any luck tracking it down!

The following method is what I’m using to add the embedded file into the PDF:

    private static void addEmbeddedFile(PdfWriter writer, String fileName, String mimeType) {
        try {
            PdfFileSpecification fs = PdfFileSpecification.fileEmbedded(writer, fileName, "Embedded File", null);
            writer.addAnnotation(
                PdfAnnotation.createScreen(writer, new Rectangle(300f, 700f, 400f, 800f),
                                            fileName, fs, mimeType, true));
        }
        catch(Exception e) {
            System.err.println(e.toString());
        }
    }

Am I doing anything totally ridiculously amateur there?! :)

Thanks for the help,

Tom

On 11/11/04 4:45 pm, "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

This PDf works for me both in reader and in full. Click in the rectangle to play.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

From: Tom Groves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 11:34 AM
To: Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can I embed Movies, Flash, etc using iText?

Paulo,

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate the help you’re giving!

Unfortunately I have downloaded the latest version of the class from your page and I’m still having the same error from Acrobat.   It appears to be working, as it is embedding the movie – it just doesn’t want to play once it gets into Acrobat. I’m about to try the same thing with various movie formats and flash as well and will let you know if they behave any differently.

Is this anything to do with signing the PDF, which I’m not currently doing? I figure not but it’s worth checking! I did have a look at the Trust Manager prefs in Acrobat but they aren’t excluding anything so it doesn’t appear to be that.

Thanks again,

Tom

On 11/11/04 2:14 pm, "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Groves
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 5:47 AM
To: Paulo Soares
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can I embed Movies, Flash, etc using iText?

Paulo,

Thanks very much for that – only actually just saw your reply!

I’ve done little playing about with this method this morning and there’s a couple of things that I’d like to ask you about. Basically, there was no problem using your example with the mpeg.   What I then did was to change it to embed the movie as opposed to just   linking to it, as the files we want to distribute would have to be   self-contained. This seemed to work, but when I opened it in vanilla Acrobat 6 Pro I got the following error:

Cannot play media clip because there is no player available that can play the media while satisfying the author’s intentions as well as your security settings.

Given that it played fine when it was just annotated and linked I think we can rule out a player error – it seems to be a security problem. Have you any idea what’s caused this and how to get around it?

That's a bug that is fixed in   yesterday's release at http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net <http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/> .

The second problem I encountered was when embedding Quicktime. This caused an out of memory error – the file was 20megs. When I cut the file down   to about 600K it was not a problem at all, except for the above issue with regards playback. Unfortunately I get the feeling that this is not going to be easy to fix but if you have any ideas I’d appreciate it. What about using the “byte[] fileStore” parameter in the fileEmbedded method instead of ‘String filePath’?

You need more memory in the JVM. Currently all the streams are placed in memory, compressed and output. They don't linger in memory but memory is needed for that brief period. I'll try to find some kind of solution this weekend, at least for some particular cases like this.

Best Regards,
Paulo   Soares

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can   provide!

Tom

On   9/11/04 5:30 pm, "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   wrote:

In can be done but it requires Acrobat 6. See the example screen_rendition.java at http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net.   As usually if there's a need to improve this functionality it will be included in the to-do list.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

From:    [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   On Behalf Of Tom Groves
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:56 PM
To:    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:   [iText-questions] Can I embed Movies, Flash, etc using   iText?

Hi,

I’m looking into the viability of using iText for a project that we’re doing and, given that I’ve run into this barrier with various other PDF generation libraries and classes, would like to   confirm whether iText can handle embedding of ‘New Media’ content.

The PDFs that we’ll generate will need to have the option of having embedded   movies (probably Quicktime), flash, sounds, etc. (not all, but possibly any   one). We were hoping that we could accomplish this by having these items embedded in a PDF that we import

I   have briefly browsed the API reference documentation but could find no reference for movie and flash embedding... :(

So basically, my question is: Is this possible?    It would be NICE to do this programmatically, but right now I’m more worried about whether we can even do it at all!

Thanks in   advance,

Tom Groves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Senior Digital Media   Developer
Omnia FZ LLC

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