Thanks for all of the feedback... I've got things working (more or less)
the way that I want. One additional question... in designing my pdf
form document I am accessing the properties of several form fields and
setting the format to the way that I want the values to appear. My
resulting pdf document (created with pdfstamper) is ignoring the
formatting. I read one post that indicated the solution to this problem
was to set formflattening to false (and then write protect the document
with some java script)?
Is this the way to do it or is there some other option that I am
overlooking?
Thanks again for your help!
From: Paulo Soares [mailto:psoa...@glintt.com]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Question about merging pdf documents
See http://1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=example&id=35. The idea is
to create the individual files with PdfStamper and then combine them
with PdfCopy.
Paulo
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From: John Polley <mailto:jpol...@ujafed.org>
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Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Question about merging pdf
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Paulo,
Thanks for the quick response. I've tried to find an example or
some documentation as to what you mean but can't come up with anything.
Would you please tell me exactly how to reload the pdf written by the
stamper. Also, I'd really like to be creating the stamper documents in
memory... do I do this just by changing the os used when creating the
stamper?
Thanks again for your help!
From: Paulo Soares [mailto:psoa...@glintt.com]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 3:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Question about merging pdf
documents
After closing stamper you'll have to reload the pdf written by
stamper.
Paulo
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From: John Polley <mailto:jpol...@ujafed.org>
To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 8:40 PM
Subject: [iText-questions] Question about merging pdf
documents
Hi,
I've been trying to get this to work for several days
now and am pretty close but, it appears that I am overlooking something.
I am writing a comclass using VS2005 and the itext class. The comclass
reads from records from a database and then, using a pdf document with
form fields, creates a separate page (i.e., document) for each record in
the table. My comclass works just fine if I write each resulting pdf out
to separate file but I'd like to merge the individual documents into a
single pdf. Here is the code that I am using:
Dim out As New
System.IO.FileStream(Me._CreateDocumentPath & Me._CreateDocumentName,
FileMode.Create)
Dim document As New Document()
Dim writer As PdfWriter =
PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, out)
document.Open()
Dim page As PdfImportedPage
Dim fieldvalue As String = ""
Using connection As SqlConnection = New
SqlConnection(builder.ConnectionString)
Try
connection.Open()
Catch exception1 As SqlException
ProjectData.SetProjectError(exception1)
Dim exception As SqlException =
exception1
Interaction.MsgBox((Conversions.ToString(exception.ErrorCode) & " " &
exception.Message), MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly, Nothing)
Dim str3 As String = ("Error: on
database connection: " & Conversions.ToString(exception.ErrorCode) & " "
& exception.Message)
ProjectData.ClearProjectError()
Return str3
End Try
Using command As SqlCommand = New
SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM ##PDFFormValues", connection)
Using reader2 As SqlDataReader =
command.ExecuteReader
Dim pagecount As Integer = 1
Dim fieldCount As Integer =
reader2.FieldCount
Dim num3 As Integer = (fieldCount -
1)
Do While reader2.Read
Dim reader As New
PdfReader(filename)
Dim stamper As New
PdfStamper(reader, New FileStream("h:\temp" & pagecount & ".pdf",
FileMode.Create)) ' New FileStream(path, FileMode.Create))
Dim acroFields As AcroFields =
stamper.AcroFields
Dim i As Integer = 0
Do While (i <= num3)
If
IsDBNull(reader2.GetValue(i)) Then
fieldvalue = ""
Else
fieldvalue =
reader2.GetValue(i)
End If
acroFields.SetField(reader2.GetName(i),
Conversions.ToString(fieldvalue))
i += 1
Loop
stamper.FormFlattening = True
stamper.Close()
page =
writer.GetImportedPage(reader, 1) 'This gives blank forms if
stamper.close is commented out, otherwise, i get error 14
document.NewPage()
writer.DirectContent.AddTemplate(page, 0, 0)
pagecount += 1
Loop
reader2.Close()
End Using
End Using
End Using
The closest that I have gotten is a document with the
correct number of pages (ie. One for each record in my table) but with
none of the form fields showing.
I'd really appreciate it if you could point out what I
have done wrong or an missing.
Regards.
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