Thanks... Now I want to implement the requirement in same manner. I can create XML myself corresponding to PDF template . In your mail I couldn't understand "Ghent University gives me a PDF with the background of the letter", whether this is PDF file like I sent in earlier mail? I gone through SAXmyHandler , SAXiTextHandler javadoc and Events.java source but I couldn't understand much how I can use these classes SAXmyHandler , SAXiTextHandler etc. for my requirement.
Could you please take some time send me some pseudo code for how to generate PDF file if I have PDF template (see attachment) and one XML file as you said ( you can give me idea how to create XML template for given PDF template)? Thanks Shailesh -----Original Message----- From: Bruno Lowagie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 5:29 PM To: Shailesh Raj (WT01 - HLS) Cc: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Replacing placeholder value in PDF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thanks for you patience in answering me :) I wanted your input >regarding designing my requirement. In application, on which I >working, there would be lot of email template and which will be >generated and sent by client for whom we are working (one I sent u in >attachment). I am thinking to ask client to send the email in template >in form of AcroForm. Then I can use iTEXT to populate the fields using >iText. >This would be better approach? > >Here in template few fields will be repetitive (in some cases we have >to show 2 or more Principal Investigator) like Principal Investigator >(see >attachment) so can I insert(copy) portion of text in AcroForm through >iText? > I don't know if I understand the question well enough to give a good answer. Let me rephrase it: If your customer gives you a form like the one you attached to your mail and instead of placeholders marked with < > he has added form fields, then you can fill these exact form fields (exact coordinates) with content. In this case the original PDF acts as a template. If your customer gives you a form like the one you attached to your mail and says: this is an example (NOT a template) and you have to have one line with the date, one OR MORE blocks with principal investigator and the TEXT OF EXEMPTION CATEGORY SELECTED BY CHAIR can be a variable number of lines, then any PDF they send you is worthless. It can't be used to compose a new PDF file. As I already explained I have plenty of projects where I solved this problem using XML. For instance: the student administration of Ghent University gives me a PDF with the background of the letter, containing a header and a footer. They also give me a template in XML. In this XML there are different clauses. I read the background letter in an onOpenDocument event, add the background to each page in an onStartPage event and then I loop over the database. For every student I parse the XML file. I replace the <student_name /> and <student_address /> tag with the correct address. When I encounter a processing instruction wiht <?years_of_study academic_year="2005" ?> I add a list with one or more study programmes and I select the clauses that apply for each specific student. Sometimes only one clause applies, sometimes different clauses apply, causing the layout to differ from student to student. I think this is the solution you need. Before you ask: the code I am writing for Ghent University is closed source. br, Bruno
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