Hi Alexis,
I know, but it's an old web app which I inherited just for support tickets,
and supposedly I'm not allowed to upgrade the jar because it is shared with
other applications. I was 'just' looking for some globals that could be
changing the behaviour of iText, but I understand that it is not an easy
question.
Thanks for you support anyway, I'll post the question on stackoverflow then.
Cheers,
Giacomo
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Alexis Pigeon <pigeon.ale...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Giacomo,
>
> On 11 April 2013 19:27, Giacomo Giustozzi <psychow...@inwind.it> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm facing a strange problem with a pdf generated programmatically using
>> iText (version iText-2.1.2u deployed on Weblogic 8.1, J2EE 1.4): I have
>> a cluster with n servers, and most of the time the generated pdf is
>> correct.
>>
>> It is a simple fixed layout text table in a landscape orientated document.
>>
>> Occasionally, one (or more) of the servers starts to generate a bad
>> pdf(using the same input data and the same java classes), in which the text
>> is
>> written vertically but with an orizontal orientation (as if the words
>> where wrapped after every character). You can see both cases attached, with
>> 'OK.png' showing the expected output (cropped from a bigger file) and
>> 'KO.png' showing the bad one.
>>
>> Since the application servers are shared with many other applications, I
>> suspect that someone else is forcing/modifying the ap (using System.
>> setProperty(....,....)), messing up with the environment used by iText(after
>> reboot every server works correctly, and when one starts to behave
>> bad, will stay that way till the next restart), but I really have no clues
>> (there are literally thousands of custom classes, developed by hundred of
>> different people, tracking is impossible).
>>
>> Do you have any idea on what it is going on there, or where I could
>> direct my search efforts?
>>
>
> iText 2.1.2u was released more almost 5 years ago [1]. You should not
> expect any support for such an old version on this free mailing-list.
> By purchasing a license, you will qualify to premium support [2], that
> might cover older versions.
> Also, you might try your luck at stackoverflow [3].
>
> But please, please remember that by using iText 2, you are putting
> yourself and your clients at risk, both technically and legally [4].
>
> Cheers,
> alexis
>
> [1]
> http://itextpdf.com/history/?branch=21&node=212<http://itextpdf.com/history/?branch=50&node=500>
> [2] http://itextpdf.com/support.php
> [3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/itext
> [4] http://lowagie.com/iText2
>
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