[iText-questions] Urgent help required pdf strance problem

2002-05-02 Thread Mahammad Rafi S
Hi , I am mahammad rafi ,a user of I-text library.I found this api as wonderful. In my current project my need is different .I need to read the pdf form templates and populate them with the dynamic data. Can any body tell me how to process form fields using i-text library.(like text fields,radio b

[iText-questions] TrueType and Type1 Fonts

2002-05-02 Thread Thomas Kübler
hallo,   i have a problem to print a pdf-document with TrueType-Fonts. I think i can't print the document, because our Digitalprinter, a IBM InfoColor 100, cannot Rip the TrueType-Font. When i changed the Font to a Type1 i can rip and print. So i decided to convert the Truetype to a Type 1 w

RE: [iText-questions] Acrobat 5 vs. Acrobat 4 problem

2002-05-02 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>You forgot the PdfContentByte.endText(). Spot on. I was chasing a red herring. Turns out there was a difference in the input document that was being laid over the PDF that was causing my code to call endText() in one case, and not in another. The fact that Acrobat 4 and xpdf were forgiving

Re: [iText-questions] PDF overlay

2002-05-02 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 2:29 PM -0500 5/2/02, Ben Sinclair wrote: >This may not be the easiest way, but this is what I do... I use >PdfContentByte.setTextMatrix() to locate at a specific point on the page and >add text. Very similar to what I'm doing except I use PdfContentByte.moveText() to get the position I want.

Re: [iText-questions] Putting other objects in a PdfContentByte

2002-05-02 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
At 2:16 PM -0500 5/2/02, Ben Sinclair wrote: >Is there a way to tell what location the "cursor" is when you are adding >paragraphs and other objects? I'd like to know exactly where the next object >will be placed. Have you tried PDFContentByte.getXTLM() and getYTLM() ? That's what I'm using. --

Re: [iText-questions] RTF

2002-05-02 Thread Mark
On Thursday 02 May 2002 16:52, you wrote: > I'm creating RTF document, but when trying to print it chooses German Std > Fanfold paper size by default, which not allows to print document properly > - it got truncated. > Why it does this and how i can force it to be A4 by default. > Thanks > Oleg

RE: [iText-questions] urgent - servlet problems

2002-05-02 Thread Lord Zefyrus God
well nothing worked. :( if i could have a working sample code, i would konow what i'm doing wrong. pls if one of you have, send it. tks zefyrus _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.m

[iText-questions] NoSuchMethodError from PdfWriter

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Sinclair
Well, I'm not sure what I changed, but now when I try to pdf.close() I get this: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter$PdfBody$PdfCrossReference.toPdf(PdfWriter.java:1 54) at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter$PdfBody.getCrossReferenceTable(PdfWriter.java:31 6) at com.lowag

[iText-questions] Vertical alignment in PdfPCell

2002-05-02 Thread Joshua C. Lerner
Hi - I see that there have been questions on this topic before - how to align text vertically in a PdfPCell. I read the posts but I'm not sure what if anything I'm doing wrong. The online docs note that "you can't always trust on the vertical alignment." Is there any workaround I can try? I'm ru

Re: [iText-questions] PDF overlay

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Sinclair
This may not be the easiest way, but this is what I do... I use PdfContentByte.setTextMatrix() to locate at a specific point on the page and add text. I determine the points by opening the PDF in Photoshop at 72dpi, then multiplying the x and y location of my cursor by 72 to get points in the PD

RE: [iText-questions] urgent - servlet problems

2002-05-02 Thread Matt Benson
It might help if you wrote your document to the ByteArrayOutputStream before you set the content length and transfer the contents to your ServletOutputStream -Matt --- Lord Zefyrus God <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > >i know that i'm boring you all, but i puted he > content.lenght at

RE: [iText-questions] urgent - servlet problems

2002-05-02 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>At 4:03 PM -0300 5/2/02, Lord Zefyrus God wrote: > still having problems. > may you send a sample code ??? Something like: ... ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream(32000); new PDFGenerator().generate( statement, template, overlay, buffer ); resp.setContentType( "applica

[iText-questions] PDF overlay

2002-05-02 Thread Matt Benson
This question is about PDF in general: If you want to take an existing PDF which is a printed form (not a PDF form) and overlay precisely-positioned text, is there a way to do something like this with ghostScript or a combination of utilities? Otherwise, what would be the easiest approach to doi

RE: [iText-questions] urgent - servlet problems

2002-05-02 Thread Lord Zefyrus God
hi i know that i'm boring you all, but i puted he content.lenght at it and it returs zero. here is the code: public void doGet (HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException { Document document = new Document(); try {

Re: [iText-questions] Putting other objects in a PdfContentByte

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Sinclair
I'm going to try a new approach... Creating a new pdf whenever I "locate" on the page, then setting the margins and using the normal methods of adding text. Later I'll merge them all into one PDF. Is there a way to tell what location the "cursor" is when you are adding paragraphs and other object

RE: [iText-questions] urgent - servlet problems

2002-05-02 Thread Ramakrishna Kuppa
Title: RE: [iText-questions] urgent - servlet problems Check the FAQ @ http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#msie and the related MS link. I think that explains the problem you have. -Original Message- From: Lord Zefyrus God [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11

Re: [iText-questions] urgent - servlet problems

2002-05-02 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
>i've tried the examlpe that uses a servlet instead a main class. >and it locks the browser until i press the refresh key (f5), them >the pdf comes up. I'm delivering PDFs built with iText via a servlet, so I might be able to help if you can supply more details. Two important things are to set

Re: [iText-questions] urgent - servlet problems

2002-05-02 Thread Lord Zefyrus God
hi again i compled the example from iText. i'm also using ie5.5 and ie6. the problem is that every request that i do from ie to the "pdf" servlet, the ie doesn't brings the pdf on the browser. i need to make a refresh to it come up. i think that it is it. []'s Zefryus >From: Wil

RE: [iText-questions] Mailing Labels

2002-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Joseph, sorry it took me a while to find the files because I reinstalled my machine and haven't had them on till now. Here are two java files and the pdf output. Haven't done anything since. But this might gives you an idea of how to use the absolute positioning. I cc the iText list, since I

RE: [iText-questions] itext sample for tiff(G3) to pdf

2002-05-02 Thread Paulo Soares
The example only works with single strip tiffs. With multiple strip you have to extract each strip as an image and assemble the images in the pdf. This is a way to do it: public static void convert2(File inputFile, File outputFile) { Document document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER, 0

[iText-questions] urgent - servlet problems

2002-05-02 Thread Lord Zefyrus God
hi i've tried the examlpe that uses a servlet instead a main class. and it locks the browser until i press the refresh key (f5), them the pdf comes up. i'm using Tomcat and jdk 1.2 []'s Zefyrus _ Send and receive Hotmail on yo

RE: [iText-questions] iText design question

2002-05-02 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: Leonard Rosenthol [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 17:17 > To: Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] iText design question > > At 4:54 PM +0100 5/2/02, Paulo Soares wrote: > > I'm transforming the

RE: [iText-questions] iText design question

2002-05-02 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 4:54 PM +0100 5/2/02, Paulo Soares wrote: > I'm transforming the PRObjects in PdfObjects. OK. >The only problem is PRStream that doesn't really >have the stream inside, only pointers to the data and I don't know if it's >wise to open up, decompress and store in memory the strea

RE: [iText-questions] Acrobat 5 vs. Acrobat 4 problem

2002-05-02 Thread Paulo Soares
You forgot the PdfContentByte.endText(). Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 17:02 > To: Paulo Soares > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Acrobat 5 vs. Acrobat 4 problem > > >Thi

[iText-questions] itext sample for tiff(G3) to pdf

2002-05-02 Thread Elamathi Sambandam
Hi I am using itext to convert tiff to pdf files. I am using sample (chap0612 ) given by itext. I just changed the filename to my tiff file name It converts to PDF. When i opened the pdf in acrobat it says "read less image data than expected". The tiff file has G3 format with COMP_FAX_G3_2D comp

RE: [iText-questions] iText design question

2002-05-02 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: Leonard Rosenthol [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 16:27 > To: Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] iText design question > > At 10:51 AM +0100 5/2/02, Paulo Soares wrote: > > > 1) Why the are two di

RE: [iText-questions] iText design question

2002-05-02 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 10:51 AM +0100 5/2/02, Paulo Soares wrote: > > 1) Why the are two different types of low level PDF objects? >> PRObject vs. PDFObject, etc. >> > The original objects (PdfObject) where designed to output PDF and as >such contain additional information that cannot be extracted from the re

[iText-questions] RTF

2002-05-02 Thread Sokolov, Oleg
I'm creating RTF document, but when trying to print it chooses German Std Fanfold paper size by default, which not allows to print document properly - it got truncated. Why it does this and how i can force it to be A4 by default. Thanks Oleg -

RE: [iText-questions] Mailing Labels

2002-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you want to print out in Word, wouldn't you be better up to import it straight into Word through a mail merge? You could connect through an ODBC datasource and have them available in Word. For myself, I haven't worked with rtf but I played a little bit around with absolute positioning and print

[iText-questions] Mailing Labels

2002-05-02 Thread Joseph Rajkumar
Hi Could you let me know if there is any example of using iText to print mailing labels. I have lots of addresses in a flat file where each address consists of three lines. I want to create a pdf/rtf file consisting of three columns of the addresses. Ultimately the idea is to get t

FW: [iText-questions] How to specify link with japanese chars.

2002-05-02 Thread Paulo Soares
I received this mail and as I suspected it's a risk to use anything but ASCII. In the japanese windows case the encoding is Shift-JIS and it works. Now, I have US windows with the CP1252 encoding and this solution will not work. It's platform dependent and defeats the purpose of the PDF. For those

RE: [iText-questions] Linearized PDFs

2002-05-02 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: Bala Guthy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 0:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] Linearized PDFs > > Hello, I know iText does not support Linearized PDFs at this time, > given that: > > 1. Do you plan on su

RE: [iText-questions] pdf file sizes

2002-05-02 Thread Paulo Soares
You are probably embedding a font. If the code is the same the result is the same. You must have differences. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Campanale, Rocco [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 20:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

RE: [iText-questions] iText design question

2002-05-02 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: Leonard Rosenthol [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] iText design question > > I have two questions about the low level design decisions make during > the coding of iText.

RE: [iText-questions] Acrobat 5 vs. Acrobat 4 problem

2002-05-02 Thread Paulo Soares
This is really strange. Send me privately the PDF for examination. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 22:34 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] Acrobat 5 vs.

[iText-questions] Linearized PDFs

2002-05-02 Thread Bala Guthy
Hello, I know iText does not support Linearized PDFs at this time, given that: 1. Do you plan on supporting it in future? 2. Do you know of any public domain implementations? Thank you. -- Bala Guthy ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge

[iText-questions] pdf file sizes

2002-05-02 Thread Campanale, Rocco
I am using version 0.91. My question is: Is there any explanation why the same exact pdf file created on a unix platform and windows nt platform would have widely different sizes? I am basically using Table with no graphics. The file size on windows is ~5k and on a solaris 2.5 unix box, ~178,25