On 6/11/05, Kimberly Kettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey
Oh, that depends on what you what to do with it. Get a byte array and use
that to make a PdfReader (from itext), and then use that to get a writer,
like PdfCopy or PdfStamp. You can use PdfStamp to flatten forms.
K
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Alawi Albaity wrote:
> no , not like that , I know mysql , I work with it , the question is how to
> read the pdf file from the fly , say that I extract pdf file from database
> and I want to do some changes on it How can I read it from the fly not from
> file by itext
>
> On 6/10/05, Kimberly Kettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>>
>> Hey
>>
>> If you need your PDFs to be on different OSs, it won't make a
>> difference whether you store them in a database or just somewhere on
>> disk. I mean, storing it in a database is not going to get you 'fast'.
>> Just store it on disk if you want fast. If you need to manage the
>> files, put the names of the files in the database. But if you really
>> want to put the whole file in a database, mySQL can do that and is free.
>> Version 1.4 is pretty good.
>>
>> Here's where to get mySQL 1.4:
>> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html
>>
>> Here's info about binary datatype:
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/binary-varbinary.html
>>
>> K
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Alawi Albaity wrote:
>>
>>> please provide me the link .
>>> and the problem that I want the files to be secure nd fast to get and to
>>> make backup , and to remove
>>> the file system is not same in the diffrent opreating system
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/10/05, Kimberly Kettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I think that depends on the database. I think Oracle and newer versions
>>>> of mySQL allow you to store binary data. So you could put PDFs in the
>>>> database as binary data and then use a web application to connect to it
>>>> and get the PDF.
>>>>
>>>> But I don't think you should bog down the database with binary data if
>> you
>>>> could just have them on the hard drive of your server. Maybe put the
>> name
>>>> of the file in the database instead?
>>>>
>>>> Kim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Alawi Albaity wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> how can I do that ?
>>>>> and is that possible ?
>>>>>
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>>>>> Alawi Albaity
>>>>> Jeddah - KSA
>>>>> Mobile : +966506660442
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Alawi Albaity
>>> Jeddah - KSA
>>> Mobile : +966506660442
>>>
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