No problem, I already found the error (btw my code is working fine). It's
just that the version of iText Maven was picking up was the 1.3.1 and I was
using the 2.1.3 with my stand-alone application. When I changed the pom.xml
version to 2.1.3, it worked out fine.
Daniel
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From: "Mark Storer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:36 PM
To: <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Servlet, PDF and forms
> Daniel Wamara <daolwin <at> hotmail.com> writes:
>>public static String test(String templateSource, String pdfView,
> ITextRaupeDealer raupeDealer) throws IOException, DocumentException,
> ParseException {
>> String outputPDFTemp = tempFolder + File.pathSeparator + pdfView +
>> "_"
> + raupeDealer.getCustomer().getId() + ".pdf";
>> PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(templateSource);
>> ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>> PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, baos);
>> AcroFields form = stamper.getAcroFields();
>> Date date = new Date();
>>
>> Set<String> keys = form.getFields().keySet();
>>
>> for (String string : keys) {
>> System.out.println("Key found: " + string);
>> }
>>
>> form.setField("date", FORMATTER.format(date));
>> form.setField("companyAddress", "Test");
>> stamper.setFormFlattening(true);
>> stamper.close();
>> return outputPDFTemp;
>> }
>
> You're returning outputPDFTemp, but never writing a file there. All you
> do is
> fill in a BAOS that is never written anywhere. It goes out of scope when
> you
> leave the function, and all your work is lost to the ether.
>
> Perhaps you meant to use a FileOutputStream?
>
> With the other code you supplied, it sounds like you're reusing your
> input.
>
> Same File Size + No Visible Changes = Same File
>
> --Mark Storer
> Senior Software Engineer
> Autonomy Cardiff
>
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