This is really bad news for me... There practically no way I can fix the PDF
creator.
I was hoping I could fix this issue on the singning part, even if it's not
iText's fault.

Best regards,
Stefan.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Good catch!  Then the original PDF creator is broken and needs to be fixed!
>
>
> On 6/29/11 2:52 PM, "mkl" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> >Leonard Rosenthol-3 wrote:
> >>
> >> Search the code and see where XAP appears.
> >>
> >
> >I'm afraid it might be the other way around... Stefan's original PDF
> >consistently uses the xap namespace prefix and iText inserts an element
> >using the xmp namespace prefix without defining it.
> >
> >PdfStamperImp.close() sets the ModifyDate like this:
> >
> >
> >
> >> XmpReader xmpr;
> >> ...
> >> xmpr.add("rdf:Description", "http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/";,
> >> "xmp:ModifyDate", date.getW3CDate());
> >>
> >
> >Looking at XmpReader.add() I see:
> >
> >
> >
> >> public boolean add(String parent, String namespaceURI, String localName,
> >> String value) {
> >>   NodeList nodes = domDocument.getElementsByTagName(parent);
> >>   if (nodes.getLength() == 0)
> >>     return false;
> >>   Node pNode;
> >>   Node node;
> >>   for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) {
> >>     pNode = nodes.item(i);
> >>     NamedNodeMap attrs = pNode.getAttributes();
> >>     for (int j = 0; j < attrs.getLength(); j++) {
> >>       node = attrs.item(j);
> >>       if (namespaceURI.equals(node.getNodeValue())) {
> >>         node = domDocument.createElement(localName);
> >>         node.appendChild(domDocument.createTextNode(value));
> >>         pNode.appendChild(node);
> >>         return true;
> >>       }
> >>     }
> >>   }
> >>   return false;
> >> }
> >>
> >
> >Thus, xmpr.add("rdf:Description", "http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/";,
> >"xmp:ModifyDate", date.getW3CDate()); actually searches for a
> >"rdf:Description" node which has, as an attribute, a namespace definition
> >for "http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/";, and then it inserts a
> "xmp:ModifyDate"
> >element ignoring the prefix actually defined for that namespace.
> >
> >Unless the prefixes to use are fixed in the context of XMP and are
> >required
> >to be defined in the "rdf:Description" node, this smells very buggy.
> >
> >Regards,   Michael.
> >
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