Re: More iText RTF Questions [bayes SPAMTRAP]

2008-06-13 Thread Paul Hastings 
Loathe wrote:
 I've got it working, now I need to figure out how to do formatting and 
 alignment.

iText is sometimes a bit too atomic when it comes to formatting (the cfteam did 
a great job taking much of the sweat out of using iText) but every object has 
alignment properties:

pageNumber.setAlignment(paragraph.ALIGN_RIGHT);

and you can tweak it to an insane level.

 Still working out page numbers

http://pastebin.com/m3e0ff845

set the rtfPageNumber field on the rtfWriter2 not on the doc.


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Re: More iText RTF Questions [bayes SPAMTRAP]

2008-06-13 Thread Loathe 
Bit by bit it's coming together for sure.

While I've got your attention :)

I'm getting some weird behavior.  it seems to be producing a question 
mark (?) at weird intervals and I can't tell why.

Also, the actual text of the document is produced from html entered 
through fckEditor.  When I drop my fields in here it seems to ignore or 
escape the html to the page, how should I handle that?  Currently I'm 
simply removing all HTML tags with a regular expression, the problem 
comes in when the field contains multiple blocks of text separated with 
br /.  How would I make it recognize a space there?

Paul Hastings wrote:
 Loathe wrote:
 I've got it working, now I need to figure out how to do formatting and 
 alignment.
 
 iText is sometimes a bit too atomic when it comes to formatting (the cfteam 
 did 
 a great job taking much of the sweat out of using iText) but every object has 
 alignment properties:
 
 pageNumber.setAlignment(paragraph.ALIGN_RIGHT);
 
 and you can tweak it to an insane level.
 
 Still working out page numbers
 
 http://pastebin.com/m3e0ff845
 
 set the rtfPageNumber field on the rtfWriter2 not on the doc.
 
 
 

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Re: More iText RTF Questions [bayes SPAMTRAP]

2008-06-13 Thread Paul Hastings 
Loathe wrote:
 I'm getting some weird behavior.  it seems to be producing a question 
 mark (?) at weird intervals and I can't tell why.

might be an encoding issue, using any special chars, etc.? anything copy/pasted 
from word doc? are these showing up if you simply dump the data out to the 
browser?

 Also, the actual text of the document is produced from html entered 
 through fckEditor.  When I drop my fields in here it seems to ignore or 
 escape the html to the page, how should I handle that?  Currently I'm 

iText's html parsing isn't 100% (ie the package handling this 
html.simpleparser). you might need to massage the text yourself depending on 
what html tags are used.

 simply removing all HTML tags with a regular expression, the problem 
 comes in when the field contains multiple blocks of text separated with 
 br /.  How would I make it recognize a space there?

not following. you mean regex for whitespace? that's a \s.


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Re: More iText RTF Questions [bayes SPAMTRAP]

2008-06-13 Thread Loathe 
By jove I think I've got it :)

http://pastebin.com/mb49fe19

I've rewritten it several times now, simplifying the code until I think 
I have it down to just what I need and it's working just how I want it.

Now, I need to figure out the body of this damned thing and I'm there.

Paul Hastings wrote:
 Loathe wrote:
 I've got it working, now I need to figure out how to do formatting and 
 alignment.
 
 iText is sometimes a bit too atomic when it comes to formatting (the cfteam 
 did 
 a great job taking much of the sweat out of using iText) but every object has 
 alignment properties:
 
 pageNumber.setAlignment(paragraph.ALIGN_RIGHT);
 
 and you can tweak it to an insane level.
 
 Still working out page numbers
 
 http://pastebin.com/m3e0ff845
 
 set the rtfPageNumber field on the rtfWriter2 not on the doc.
 
 
 

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More iText RTF Questions

2008-06-12 Thread Loathe 
All of these questions are in reference to creating RTF docs using iText 
and RtfWriter2 in ColdFusion called with the javaLoader.cfc

1.  How do I create an 8.5 x 11 page?

2.  How do I have a 1 margin?

3.  How do I create a header that actually displays in the page?

4.  How do I add page numbers, after the first page only, in the footer?

I've found tutorials and examples online to do all of this in pure java, 
but I'm having a hell of a time of it trying to convert that into CF. 
Any help would really be appreciated.

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RE: More iText RTF Questions

2008-06-12 Thread Peterson, Chris 
Loathe,

This is not exactly what you need (this uses iText to write a series of
tiff images to a PDF), but it should show you how to use iText with CF!

http://pastebin.com/m7187bf8d

Chris Peterson

-Original Message-
From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:24 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: More iText RTF Questions

All of these questions are in reference to creating RTF docs using iText

and RtfWriter2 in ColdFusion called with the javaLoader.cfc

1.  How do I create an 8.5 x 11 page?

2.  How do I have a 1 margin?

3.  How do I create a header that actually displays in the page?

4.  How do I add page numbers, after the first page only, in the footer?

I've found tutorials and examples online to do all of this in pure java,

but I'm having a hell of a time of it trying to convert that into CF. 
Any help would really be appreciated.



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Re: More iText RTF Questions

2008-06-12 Thread Loathe 
Excellent example, thanks.

I'm at the point where I can output text to the body of the RTF doc. 
Your example helps with the page type and margins, and helps me wrap my 
head around how to call the objects.

Peterson, Chris wrote:
 Loathe,
 
 This is not exactly what you need (this uses iText to write a series of
 tiff images to a PDF), but it should show you how to use iText with CF!
 
 http://pastebin.com/m7187bf8d
 
 Chris Peterson
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:24 AM
 To: CF-Talk
 Subject: More iText RTF Questions
 
 All of these questions are in reference to creating RTF docs using iText
 
 and RtfWriter2 in ColdFusion called with the javaLoader.cfc
 
 1.  How do I create an 8.5 x 11 page?
 
 2.  How do I have a 1 margin?
 
 3.  How do I create a header that actually displays in the page?
 
 4.  How do I add page numbers, after the first page only, in the footer?
 
 I've found tutorials and examples online to do all of this in pure java,
 
 but I'm having a hell of a time of it trying to convert that into CF. 
 Any help would really be appreciated.
 
 
 
 

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Re: More iText RTF Questions

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Hastings 
Loathe wrote:
 1.  How do I create an 8.5 x 11 page?

pageSize=createObject(java, com.lowagie.text.PageSize).init();
doc=createObject(java,com.lowagie.text.Document).init(pageSize.LETTER,0,0,0,0);

 2.  How do I have a 1 margin?

the 0,0,0,0 bit above are the margins in points. 1=72pt.

 3.  How do I create a header that actually displays in the page?

there's a couple of approaches to this:

page events, cfsearching blog has a superb set of posts on itext  cf, this one 
is about page events 
http://cfsearching.blogspot.com/2008/03/instructions-for-cf-itext.html

directContent (ie stick any text/image/etc anywhere on the page):
cfscript
myObj = structNew();
local = structNew();

BaseFont=createObject(java, com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont);
bf=baseFont.createFont(BaseFont.COURIER,BaseFont.CP1252,BaseFont.EMBEDDED);

myObj.document=CreateObject(java, com.lowagie.text.Document);
newFile=expandPath(test.pdf);

myObj.fileIO=createObject(java,java.io.FileOutputStream).init(newFile);
myObj.pdfWriter=CreateObject(java, com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter);
myObj.vertText=createObject(java,com.lowagie.text.pdf.VerticalText);
myObj.pdfContentByte=createObject(java,com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte);
// create document
myObj.document.init();
// call the static 'getInstance' factory method
local.writer=myObj.pdfWriter.getInstance(myObj.document, myObj.fileIO);
// open the document
myObj.document.open();
local.cb=local.writer.getDirectContent();
local.cb.beginText();
local.cb.setFontAndSize(bf, 12.0);
local.cb.showTextAligned(1, 'THIS IS A TEST', 100, 100, 0);
local.cb.endText();
myObj.document.close();
/cfscript

 4.  How do I add page numbers, after the first page only, in the footer?

see #3.

 I've found tutorials and examples online to do all of this in pure java, 
 but I'm having a hell of a time of it trying to convert that into CF. 

porting from bruno's java examples to cf is fairly straightforward. where are 
you getting stuck?


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Re: More iText RTF Questions

2008-06-12 Thread Loathe 
Page events don't work with RTF creation, as the client renders the 
document when it is opened.

That being said there is a footerheader object as part of the rtf 
writer.  I called it, it isn't throwing an error, and I can see my text 
in the document when opened in notepad, but not in word.

The last two posts have really helped me out a lot, let me clean up what 
I have and see where I am.

Thanks man.  I've sen you all over the iText forums and mailing list, 
you seem to be the CF community expert :)

Paul Hastings wrote:
 Loathe wrote:
 1.  How do I create an 8.5 x 11 page?
 
 pageSize=createObject(java, com.lowagie.text.PageSize).init();
 doc=createObject(java,com.lowagie.text.Document).init(pageSize.LETTER,0,0,0,0);
 
 2.  How do I have a 1 margin?
 
 the 0,0,0,0 bit above are the margins in points. 1=72pt.
 
 3.  How do I create a header that actually displays in the page?
 
 there's a couple of approaches to this:
 
 page events, cfsearching blog has a superb set of posts on itext  cf, this 
 one 
 is about page events 
 http://cfsearching.blogspot.com/2008/03/instructions-for-cf-itext.html
 
 directContent (ie stick any text/image/etc anywhere on the page):
 cfscript
 myObj = structNew();
 local = structNew();
 
 BaseFont=createObject(java, com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont);
 bf=baseFont.createFont(BaseFont.COURIER,BaseFont.CP1252,BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
 
 myObj.document=CreateObject(java, com.lowagie.text.Document);
 newFile=expandPath(test.pdf);
   
 myObj.fileIO=createObject(java,java.io.FileOutputStream).init(newFile);
 myObj.pdfWriter=CreateObject(java, com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter);
 myObj.vertText=createObject(java,com.lowagie.text.pdf.VerticalText);
 myObj.pdfContentByte=createObject(java,com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte);
 // create document
 myObj.document.init();
 // call the static 'getInstance' factory method
 local.writer=myObj.pdfWriter.getInstance(myObj.document, myObj.fileIO);
 // open the document
 myObj.document.open();
 local.cb=local.writer.getDirectContent();
 local.cb.beginText();
 local.cb.setFontAndSize(bf, 12.0);
 local.cb.showTextAligned(1, 'THIS IS A TEST', 100, 100, 0);
 local.cb.endText();
 myObj.document.close();
 /cfscript
 
 4.  How do I add page numbers, after the first page only, in the footer?
 
 see #3.
 
 I've found tutorials and examples online to do all of this in pure java, 
 but I'm having a hell of a time of it trying to convert that into CF. 
 
 porting from bruno's java examples to cf is fairly straightforward. where are 
 you getting stuck?
 
 
 

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Re: More iText RTF Questions [bayes SPAMTRAP]

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Hastings 
Loathe wrote:
 That being said there is a footerheader object as part of the rtf 
 writer.  I called it, it isn't throwing an error, and I can see my text 
 in the document when opened in notepad, but not in word.

post your code.

btw cfsearching's not my blog.

besides that blog, i recommend anybody working w/iText to cough up the bucks 
for 
bruno's book, the eBook's only $30:

http://www.manning.com/lowagie/

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Re: More iText RTF Questions [bayes SPAMTRAP]

2008-06-12 Thread Loathe 
http://pastebin.com/m635a3bd4

I've got it working, now I need to figure out how to do formatting and 
alignment.

Still working out page numbers

Paul Hastings wrote:
 Loathe wrote:
 That being said there is a footerheader object as part of the rtf 
 writer.  I called it, it isn't throwing an error, and I can see my text 
 in the document when opened in notepad, but not in word.
 
 post your code.
 
 btw cfsearching's not my blog.
 
 besides that blog, i recommend anybody working w/iText to cough up the bucks 
 for 
 bruno's book, the eBook's only $30:
 
 http://www.manning.com/lowagie/
 
 

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