Well, I must admit my previous post sounded like that "kitchen example" :-)
*********************************************************************************************** What I want to do is simply to add a image as a background (watermark) to a PDF document. *********************************************************************************************** That is a very simple task following the example in "http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/general/copystamp/index.php";, I have tested it with PDF files and works fine. But I can't make it work when the PDF source is a String having its content (String that the browsers show correctly as s PDF document), not a file. I have the String that I mentioned, with the known structure "%PDF-1.1....", I receive it in a servlet and I can properly print it out to the browser just as I would print any other String (using a PrintWriter java object), and I can see the PDF on screen. But I can't add to it a background (watermark) image because the only way I found to construct the PdfReader object is passing myString.getBytes() to it, and doing it that way, the final PDF document I get is visually the same (but bigger in size). I might be trying to do something impossible with iText, I don't know (but I don't think so). Reading the page 38 of your book, it says "...PDF header is written, and by default it looks like this: %PDF-1.4 %âãÏÓ " It says that the %âãÏÓ is a commentary to indicate binary content, but the string I have doesn't include that %âãÏÓ nor anything similar under the %PDF-1.4 line. And I don't know if that could be a source of problems. Thanks to both you for your comments, suggestions and help, and sorry for being asking so much. If I manage to run my code properly and to prepare my "duck à l'orange" **:-)**, I will send it to you to comment the answer (if you want, of course). Adriano. > FYI: > I have read this thread, and honestly: > I don't have a clue what this is about. > Translated to kitchen talk, I interpret > it as "somebody gave me an egg, and now > I have to prepare duck à l'orange. What > should I do next?" > My first answer would be: "Are you sure > it's a duck egg you've been given?" ;-) > br, > Bruno > 2007/11/16, Bruno Lowagie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adriano Leite Ribero wrote: > > I need to use that String (which is not encoded) because an external > > server sends it to me that way. I receive a String with that content, > > and it is something I can't change. > > > > PdfReader creates apparently ok from that string.getBytes() method, > > but changes don't seem to happen as expected (the new watermarked file > > size is bigger than the original one, so something is actaully > > happening). > > > > Think that I want to create manually a PDF and I start to write: > > String myString = "%PDF-1.1\n1 0 obj\n<<\n" + ... + "74879\n%%EOF". > > //complete PDF structure > > What should I do next? > > FYI: > I have read this thread, and honestly: > I don't have a clue what this is about. > Translated to kitchen talk, I interpret > it as "somebody gave me an egg, and now > I have to prepare duck à l'orange. What > should I do next?" > My first answer would be: "Are you sure > it's a duck egg you've been given?" ;-) > br, > Bruno > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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/
