[iText-questions] Is this a lack of iText's feature? Or is it my code

2003-07-16 Thread Mark Goking
Greetings My PDF cannot display some characters of the vietnamese charset and it can display some other as well. I don’t think I lacked the font pack for this because vietnamese charsets are also part of some common true type fonts like Arial, Verdana and Times New Roman and I also tried to e

Re: [iText-questions] Compare PDF documents

2003-07-16 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 9:47 PM +0200 7/16/03, Andreas Probst wrote: I'm developing an application which creates PDF files. OK. To automatically test this application, I'd need to compare PDF documents, i.e. compare the current output of the app to once created and verified reference files. What would you compare?

[iText-questions] ExceptionConverter: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Illegal character or entity reference syntax.

2003-07-16 Thread Mark Goking
ExceptionConverter: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Illegal character or entity reference syntax. This error appears once my application converts the xml file to pdf. The xml is written as UTF-8. any idea what this exception means? Mark --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG an

[iText-questions] Xml concern

2003-07-16 Thread Mark Goking
My ResourceBundle class uses a UTF-8 saved property file to retrieve the values and write them to the xml file also saved as utf-8 This is my line code to create the xml file write = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(xmlFile), "UTF-8")); Now, when I checked th

Re: [iText-questions] Ideas to accomplish modified "keep together" and addbackground image?

2003-07-16 Thread Tom Kofford
Attached is a sample of what I'm talking about (the names and other information on the document are fictitious). I created the sample from an html document using the pdf print driver. This sample is unacceptable because the signature line is on the 3rd page with no lines from the previous par

[iText-questions] Compare PDF documents

2003-07-16 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi all, I'm developing an application which creates PDF files. To automatically test this application, I'd need to compare PDF documents, i.e. compare the current output of the app to once created and verified reference files. Unfortunately two PDF files seem to be never binary equal, even if

Re: [iText-questions] Ideas to accomplish modified "keep together" and add background image?

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
Usually when the layout requirements increase it's time to use ColumnText. It would be nice to see an image of the intended result. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Tom Kofford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 17:38 Subject:

Re: [iText-questions] Spot colors and iText?

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
That's not possible with iText. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Ben Galbraith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 16:07 Subject: [iText-questions] Spot colors and iText? > I'd like to parse a PDF with iText and change an RG

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: Undeliverable Mail

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
Yes, I axed Dave. The address [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets all the undelivered and bounced messages, as if I cared. You can't imagine the number of those messages. The problem is that the authorizations for the posts also go through there and I'm interested in those. Sourceforge is a bit slow to unsubscr

Re: [iText-questions] Finding the characterstics of a font

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
BaseFont.getFontDescriptor() Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Jaladurgam, Ramana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 16:36 Subject: [iText-questions] Finding the characterstics of a font > Hello, >How do we find out the

[iText-questions] Ideas to accomplish modified "keep together" and add background image?

2003-07-16 Thread Tom Kofford
I'm writing an app that produces legal documents. A legal requirement for the document is that the signature line must have at least 5 lines from the previous paragraph on the same page. I also need to put an image behind the signature line. The signature line text starts at about the center

[iText-questions] Code submission / suggestion - Rectangle and equals()

2003-07-16 Thread Nick Neuberger
I would like to recommend adding an equals() to the Rectangle object. Also hashCode. I think a rectangle is equal when the following are the same between objects. left, right, top, bottom, rotation. I wrote some code to position the page numbers at the bottom of the page depending on what page

[iText-questions] Finding the characterstics of a font

2003-07-16 Thread Jaladurgam, Ramana
Title: Message Hello,    How do we find out the ascent, descent of a font?   Regards,Ramana.JV. This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, Please notify the sender and

[iText-questions] Fwd: Undeliverable Mail

2003-07-16 Thread Bruno
We received mails like this (times 30) and I guess Paulo unsubscribed you. - Forwarded message from Postmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:16:34 From: Postmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Postmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Undeliverable Mail To:

[iText-questions] unsubscribed by mistake?

2003-07-16 Thread David Thielen
Hi;   I just got a message saying I was unsubscribed from iText - any idea why?   thanks - dave

Re: [iText-questions] Loss of internal links using addTemplate

2003-07-16 Thread G. Ken Holman
At 2003-07-16 15:29 +0100, Paulo Soares wrote: Links are not preserved when importing pages as templates. This is documented and is by design. Fine ... sorry I missed the documentation. Is there a different way I can shift the image to the left or right when adding to a destination without losing

RE: [iText-questions] Performance problems

2003-07-16 Thread Nick Neuberger
What is your hardware configuration? cpu(s) memory disk space What VM are you using? Are you doing any database connections while generating the pdfs? I have seen the performance for applications to be extremely fast. even in java. although we are using dual processor

[iText-questions] Spot colors and iText?

2003-07-16 Thread Ben Galbraith
I'd like to parse a PDF with iText and change an RGB color to a Pantone spot color. Is this possible with iText? I saw an example of creating elements with a spot color in the tutuorial, but I'm not sure if modifying an existing PDF's elements would be possible. Thanks for any help! Ben -

Re: [iText-questions] Creating PDF Forms

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
You have examples in www.geocities.com/itextpdf. Note that a good knowledge of PDF internals is needed to create forms in iText. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Muhil Vannan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 7:12 Subject: [i

[iText-questions] Re: Converting iText image to jawa.awt.Image

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
- Original Message - From: "Navin.Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Paulo Soares'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 13:48 Subject: Converting iText image to jawa.awt.Image > Hello, > > I am using iText to generated pdf documents.

Re: [iText-questions] How to create bookmark that points to a table with custom outline name

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
PdfOutline accepts an action that can point anywhere. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Cosmin Popa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:20 Subject: [iText-questions] How to create bookmark that points to a table with custom ou

Re: [iText-questions] Table and header

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
PdfPTable.size() == PdfPTable.getHeaderRows() Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Boigienman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "itext" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:56 Subject: [iText-questions] Table and header > Hi, > > Is it possible to kno

Re: [iText-questions] fonts in concatenated pdf files

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
iText can't embed fonts in an existing document. You must fix the files on the FOP side. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Founaboui Haman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:19 Subject: [iText-questions] fonts in concatenate

Re: [iText-questions] Performance problems

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
The only way to improve the performance is to use something else written in C (or assembler). This is Java, you know. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "Durga Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:24 Subject: [iText-quest

Re: [iText-questions] Loss of internal links using addTemplate

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
Links are not preserved when importing pages as templates. This is documented and is by design. It could theoretical be done but the PDF format is not flexible enough with annotations and it wouldn't work in many cases. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "G. Ken Holman"

Re: [iText-questions] Embedding Chinese Fonts

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
What error do you get from this: BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont("/your_path/mingliu.ttc,0", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, true); Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "MK Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 13:28 Subject: [iText-quest

Re: [iText-questions] Missing internal link anchors when using PdfCopy

2003-07-16 Thread Paulo Soares
PdfCopy won't work with links with named destinations. Best Regards, Paulo Soares - Original Message - From: "G. Ken Holman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "iText" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:07 Subject: [iText-questions] Missing internal link anchors when using PdfCop

[iText-questions] Converting iText image to jawa.awt.Image

2003-07-16 Thread Navin.Kumar
Hello,   I am using iText to generated pdf documents.I have the following issues—   1.   How do I convert an iText image to  a java.awt.Image ? 2. Is it possible for me to convert a PdfDocument object to a java.awt.Image object?   3.   Is it possible for me to save a PdfDocument t

[iText-questions] Embedding Chinese Fonts

2003-07-16 Thread MK Lee
Hi,       I'd like to embed chinese fonts with the BaseFont.createFont statement. The font files (Kaiu.ttf or MingLiu.ttf) is downloaded from Window platform and used the encoding BaseFont.IDENTITY_H.       However, no matter which font I used, a run-time error occur: java.io.UnsupportedEnc

[iText-questions] Performance problems

2003-07-16 Thread Durga Prasad
Hi, I am generating several fdf's and merging them with their corresponding pdf's and generating the merged pdf's. This merging process is too slow. Can anybody suggest me how to improve the performance. If the merged pdf is of size (16k) the time taken is nearly 6 sec. ThankYou Drgaprasad _

[iText-questions] fonts in concatenated pdf files

2003-07-16 Thread Founaboui Haman
Hi,   days ago I posted a question about embedding fonts in concatenated pdf files, but I got no reactions. So I am asking you again, hopping to get answers this time :-)   I wrote a java class that concatenates somes pdf files using fonts  AGaramond-Bold (these files were geneted using FOP)

[iText-questions] Table and header

2003-07-16 Thread Benjamin Boigienman
Hi, Is it possible to know if a PdfPTable has only a header (with no data row) ? Thank u --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Wind

[iText-questions] How to create bookmark that points to a table with custom outline name

2003-07-16 Thread Cosmin Popa
How to create bookmark that points to a table with custom outline name? I need to create a printable document with a lot of forms and I need to have bookmarks to every table that contains arranged fields in forms. Thank you, Cosmin Popa ___