At 5:08 PM +0100 10/14/06, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm using iText to create PDF documents for my University project >and this is working well. What I would like to do is "hide" >comments into any created PDF. This is so when I parse the file >back into my reader, I will be able to pick up information my writer >"hid" there, but applications such as Acrobat will just ignore it.
What you want to add is called METADATA...and there are two standard methods for it in PDF. There is the classic "DocInfo" fields and there is the modern (XML-based) XMP. iText supports both - use them. Leonard -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) 215-689-3863 (fax) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions