There was an example in the iText in Action book that demonstrated doing it this way. I am just trying to get a full understanding of how the methods work before I start real coding. I understand the potential inefficiency of feeding this through a memory stream and I doubt that I would actually use it, but I don't feel comfortable with new components until I have fully exercised them and understand all the options.
Dan robert engels wrote: > You are best to supply PdfWriter with the Response.OutputStream > anyway, otherwise you need to buffer the entire PDF in memory. > > Why do you want to do this? > > On Dec 29, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Daniel Essin wrote: > >> It's not different English, it's just a snapshot into the evolving >> state >> of my confusion. >> >> My original post was confused because I was confused. I was reading a >> hex dump of the stream buffer and I did 2 things that were both wrong: >> - I misinterpreted the first character in the buffer as a 7 instead of >> what it was, a % >> - I assumed that the buffer was reaching acrobat via the web page >> which >> it is apparently not. >> >> Since then I have tried every permutation that I can think of and >> ended >> up thus - I can generate and send a page by supplying PdfWriter >> with the >> Response.OutputStream, I can write a valid pdf file by supplying >> PdfWriter with an open FileStream but if I try to supply PdfWriter >> with >> a MemoryStream and then try to feed the MemoryStream to the >> HttpResponse >> object I get 0 bytes transmitted but since the response nas the >> ContentType set to "application/pdf", Acrobat generates an error >> message >> upon being invoked with no bytes in the stream. >> >> I don't know why, and I don't know how to fix it. That's why I have >> been >> pestering this thread. >> >> I appreciate your taking the time to respond. >> >> Any bright ideas or correction of my limited understanding of this >> subject would be greatly appreciated, >> Dan >> >> robert engels wrote: >>> We must be using different english... >>> >>> On Dec 29, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Daniel Essin wrote: >>> >>>>>>>> OK let me start over again. I was reading the dump incorrectly >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> and the >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> first byte is a % >>>>>>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> --- >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >>> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to >>> share your >>> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn >>> cash >>> http://www.techsay.com/default.php? >>> page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> --- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> iText-questions mailing list >>> iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >>> Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to >> share your >> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash >> http://www.techsay.com/default.php? >> page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >> _______________________________________________ >> iText-questions mailing list >> iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
