But now it doesn't save the PDF correctly... Oh my... -----Original Message----- From: Paulo Soares [mailto:pgpsoa...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 12:14 AM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDFStamper weird situation.
Call PdfStamper.Writer.CloseStream=false to keep the stream open after PdfStamper.Close(). Paulo On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 9:10 PM, <k...@dataverse.gr> wrote: > I've commented out pdfStamper.Close() because when executed it seemed > to close the memory stream, so I couldn't save it to a file anymore (!). > The PdfReader.Close() is a little bit silly thing to do, yes (I > realize it now). But why there isn't a PdfStamper.Flush() if there are > problems like that? > > I have tried without closing anything (just letting the `usings` call > Dispose) and there were still problems (I will have to check if you > want details on the problems). Perhaps it was that the fields weren't filled. > I'll have to check (I'm a little dizzy from the 100 different things > I've tried). If that's the case, and this is the right approach, then > the real problem is in the field setting. But I wonder how can this > be, since > SetField() returns true... > > In the documetation of PdfStamper it says: "The reader will be closed > when this PdfStamper is closed". Why the heck is the output memory > stream being closed on PdfStamper.Close() ?!?! > I use a quite recent (or perhaps the latest) version of iTextSharp. > >From what I undertand now, this looks like a bug. > I don't think my code closed the memory stream. > > > >> On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:31:45 +0200, _ <k...@dataverse.gr> wrote: >> >>> Any ideas on why the output file is small and corrupt? >> >> >> Why is pdfStamper.Close() commented out, and why is the stamper >> closed before the reader? >> >> Without pdfStamper.Close() several objects won't be written to the output. >> Closing the reader before closing the stamper probably closes access >> to some necessary >> objects.------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----------------- How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT >> departments: >> 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations >> 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. 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