[iText-questions] iText as a Java Bean ? Has anybody already written a wrapper ?

2006-11-14 Thread Jochen Seifarth
I would like to use the iText library like a Java Bean to extract and change document and form information from PDFs (not content). Among these are things like extracting XFDF templates (which I admit is trivial if you only want to fill in the fields). However, unfortunately quite a few of the iTex

Re: [iText-questions] Searching Fields and Watermarks on Images.

2006-11-14 Thread Mark Storer
> As for your question, yes it could be a regular Text, Except > that I want the text to show only when SEARCHED. In a PDF, if it can be searched, it can be selected. Ctrl-A will find all such 'hidden' text, including text drawn with render mode 3 (no stroke, no fill). The same is true of

[iText-questions] Stamp issue

2006-11-14 Thread James Darschewski
I am having an issue stamping PDFs.  I set an opacity of the stamp and it looks good on the screen.  However when you go to print the pdf the scanned image (the pdfs being stamped are scanned files saved as pdf) only show through where the letters of the stamp are and not where there is whitespace

Re: [iText-questions] Saving PDF files with Reader Extension

2006-11-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 9:38 AM -0800 11/14/06, Sendhil Dhakshinamoorthy wrote: > >You need to switch your workflow so that all modifications >>are done BEFORE the application of Reader Extensions. > >Can I set the Reader Extensions programatically after all the modifications?. Using Adobe LiveCycle Reader Ex

Re: [iText-questions] Trouble Load certificate v3 (PFX) inaX509Certificate Entry

2006-11-14 Thread Camilo Cubillos Rodriguez
Hi, Paulo Thank you  for your fast response.  and with respect  to your question this is the situactón: We  buying the certificate to the CA local in Colombia, they send us the certificate for install in IIS for our use the pfx and the crl.  These certificate is which i try apply for sign the pdf

[iText-questions] xml to pdf pdfptables

2006-11-14 Thread Ruslan KULUBAEV
Hi Bruno, Paolo, Steve and others, i would like to pose a question on converting xml to pdf. i have been reading previous posts. I have been using pdfptable or willing to use it. I read some posts from Bruno were saying that handler should be enhanced to be able to use pdfptables. Also read th

Re: [iText-questions] 2 free chapters of 'iText in Action'

2006-11-14 Thread Anton Melser
> Books don't work with version numbers ;-) > I finished the manuscript in March. > It was read and reviewed by: > - a developmental editor at Manning > - a number of reviewers from the industry > - a copy editor (language) > - a first proofreader (typos) > - a second proofreader (typography) > - o

Re: [iText-questions] Extract PDF

2006-11-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 9:28 AM -0600 11/14/06, S3 wrote: > >>Basically, people keep on coming to me to fix their PDFs. >>Fix in what way? What is wrong with them? >Well, people have come to me with different problems. Interesting set of problems. FWIW, and I understand your situation and choices v

Re: [iText-questions] Saving PDF files with Reader Extension

2006-11-14 Thread Sendhil Dhakshinamoorthy
Leonard Thanks for your response.    >You need to switch your workflow so that all modifications >are done BEFORE the application of Reader Extensions.   Can I set the Reader Extensions programatically after all the modifications?.   I am reading the files that has Reader Extensions applie

Re: [iText-questions] iText in Action

2006-11-14 Thread Joe Scanlon
-Original Message- From: "Bill Ensley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Post all your questions about iText here'" Sent: 11/14/06 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] iText in Action Never mind, it's only the Manning site that has the ebook. -Bill Ensley Bear Printing _ From: [

Re: [iText-questions] Searching Fields and Watermarks on Images.

2006-11-14 Thread Phanindra Mankale
Mark, Thanks for your detailed reply... As for your question, yes it could be a regular Text, Except that I want the text to show only when SEARCHED. I will try out with PdfStamper. Again Many thanks for all the info. - Original Message From: Mark Storer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Pos

Re: [iText-questions] Trouble Load certificate v3 (PFX) in aX509Certificate Entry

2006-11-14 Thread Paulo Soares
Are you sure you have a public key there? Paulo > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Camilo Cubillos > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:35 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [iText-questions] Trouble Load cer

Re: [iText-questions] iText in Action

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Ensley
Thanks, I will. -Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Lowagie Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:38 AM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] iText in Action Bill Ensley wrote: > Never mind, it'

[iText-questions] Trouble Load certificate v3 (PFX) in a X509Certificate Entry

2006-11-14 Thread Camilo Cubillos
Hi, good day to all I have a problem loading a file pfx with a certificate v3 with itextsharp. The problem is what when i try obtain the Certificate Entry for the method getCertificateChain (alias) the object is returning a null value. This is my code: string alias = null;

Re: [iText-questions] Extract PDF

2006-11-14 Thread S3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>Basically, people keep on coming to me to fix their PDFs. >Fix in what way? What is wrong with them? Well, people have come to me with different problems. For example, someone made a presentation and then did 3x3 nup to it. So, it was very small.

Re: [iText-questions] Extract PDF

2006-11-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 8:44 PM -0600 11/13/06, S3 wrote: >Is there a >pdf2mars >and >mars2pdf >utilities for Linux? Not yet. But hopefully someone will write them... >Basically, people keep on coming to me to fix their PDFs. Fix in what way? What is wrong with them? >I think that if I had it

Re: [iText-questions] 2 free chapters of 'iText in Action'

2006-11-14 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Orlando M. Amador wrote: > I'm confused by the MEAP and third pages terms. They all sound like > Release Candidates to me. :-) MEAP means you have access to the book BEFORE there's a final version. In my case, they took the manuscript and put the unedited draft online. First pages, second pages,

Re: [iText-questions] Saving PDF files with Reader Extension

2006-11-14 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 7:12 PM -0800 11/13/06, Sendhil Dhakshinamoorthy wrote: >I am trying to read existing PDF file and fill it with values and >display the modified PDF to user. All the PDF files have Acrobat >Reader Extensions applied to them and are modifyable and savable >locally. >When the modified PDF open

Re: [iText-questions] iText in Action

2006-11-14 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Bill Ensley wrote: > Never mind, it's only the Manning site that has the ebook. You were one of the 1/3 reviewers. If you mail Karen or Olivia at Manning, she'll probably send you the eBook (remember that was one of the perks for reviewing the book). br, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] 2 free chapters of 'iText in Action'

2006-11-14 Thread Orlando M. Amador
I'm confused by the MEAP and third pages terms. They all sounds like Release Candidates to me. :-) Let me ask in terms I can understand: Is version 1.0 available? Better yet, will there be a version 1.1? PS. I don't like version numbers that end with a zero. :-) Saludos, Orlando [EMAIL P

Re: [iText-questions] iText in Action

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Ensley
Never mind, it's only the Manning site that has the ebook.   -Bill Ensley Bear Printing From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill EnsleySent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:25 AMTo: 'Post all your questions about iText here'Subject: [iText-questions] iText in Act

[iText-questions] iText in Action

2006-11-14 Thread Bill Ensley
Hello all,   I must be missing something, but I just purchased the iText in Action book at Amazon.com and I had thought that the eDoc option was included.  Am I wrong?   -Bill Ensley Bear Printing - Using Tomcat but need t

Re: [iText-questions] 2 free chapters of 'iText in Action'

2006-11-14 Thread Anthony van den Berg
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[iText-questions] 2 free chapters of 'iText in Action'

2006-11-14 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Hello all, the eBook of 'iText in Action' is available for sale at Manning: http://www.manning.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=223_53 And so are two free chapters. I chose two chapters that aren't very technical, so that they can be read by people who don't know anything about Java or PDF develo

Re: [iText-questions] Extract PDF

2006-11-14 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
S3 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thanks for the link: > http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Mars I'm planning to ask Actuate if I can direct my R&D project towards Mars (pun not intended). I'm not thinking about PDF2Mars as for yet (please read chapter 18 of my boo

Re: [iText-questions] Saving PDF files with Reader Extension

2006-11-14 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Sendhil Dhakshinamoorthy wrote: > Can you tell how to fix this problem, so that >1. the code would not allow this informational message from > displaying and >2. allow the user to save the PDF file with more modifications. Making/manipulating Reader enabled PDF documents is the monopoly

Re: [iText-questions] Transparancy Issue for showing Text on Image

2006-11-14 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
pranav pandya wrote: > Yes, I used PDFReader to get Document object. The answer Paulo gave you meant you should get rid of Document. > I am pasting my whole code for your reference. Why? The question was answered: use PdfReader.getPageSize() instead of Document.getPageSize() as indicated by Pau