Re: [iText-questions] Missing glyphlist.txt when compile from source

2006-12-07 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
Scratch that last post. Seems patch is not needed. We were using a different build.xml file on Gentoo. We were still using http://www.lowagie.com/iText/build.xml When there was a build file in sources already. Not sure why, just took over package maintenance a month or so back. Switching to the on

Re: [iText-questions] UPC checksum

2006-12-07 Thread Paulo Soares
The check digit in UPCA is never calculated and must be supplied. It's assumed that you know what to print. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Rick Roen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Post all your questions about iText here'" Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:53 PM Subject: [iText-quest

[iText-questions] UPC checksum

2006-12-07 Thread Rick Roen
I can generate a UPC code with no problem when I supply the check digit with the barcode string. Does iTextSharp supply a check digit if requested? I can see the GenerateCheckDigit property, but it seems to have no effect when I put it either before or after like this: Dim upc As B

[iText-questions] Missing glyphlist.txt when compile from source

2006-12-07 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
Here is a proposed mini-patch for the compile.xml file. It seems it's lacking a directive to including the glyphlist.txt file when compiling from source. Guess not to many are compiling from source or they would have run into this. Please excuse me if we are using the wrong targets. I am not sure h

[iText-questions] book

2006-12-07 Thread Rick Roen
When will the book be available? Amazon says release 1 Dec, but it is apparently not available yet. Rick - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the cha

[iText-questions] Resize, Rotate and Center a Pdf with digital signatures

2006-12-07 Thread lenn . angel
Hi all ! I've just subscribe to this mailing list because I've a small problem... What I want to do : - I have a Pdf file (in wich different page size and orientation are presents) - I have a list of scale to apply to each page I want to take each page from the original document, scale it to the

Re: [iText-questions] Regarding iText performance

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Nishanth wrote: > I want to use iText in my appl;ication. Please give me the following > information. > 1) Performance of iText. If you can provide numbers it would be great. That's marketing nonsense. Performance will depend on what you want to achieve with iText (simple reports, complex stuff w

Re: [iText-questions] Global Underline Position?

2006-12-07 Thread csowada
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07.12.2006 15:53:45: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Bruno Lowagie (iText) > > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:30 PM > > To: Post all your questions about iText here > > Subject: Re: [

Re: [iText-questions] [Newbie] editing existing PDF

2006-12-07 Thread Diego Guidi
> The question is pertinent. If you need something like you have in html you > must start with > html or xml, do all the template replacements and produce the pdf from > there. You may use > XmlParser or HTMLWorker. Thanks a lot for the super-fast response, and for suggest! Maybe i could simply

Re: [iText-questions] book review 'iText in Action'

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Matt Benson wrote: > I mention it just in case you have any > influence here... :) I forwarded your message. The book is tagged with the keyword JAVA and PDF, so I think it's only a matter of time. The book is still on the front page ;-) br, Bruno -

Re: [iText-questions] [Newbie] editing existing PDF

2006-12-07 Thread Paulo Soares
The question is pertinent. If you need something like you have in html you must start with html or xml, do all the template replacements and produce the pdf from there. You may use XmlParser or HTMLWorker. Paulo > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[iText-questions] [Newbie] editing existing PDF

2006-12-07 Thread Diego Guidi
Hy to all :) I'm totally new to iText and i need to know if a design choice is available for resolve my issue... i need to dinamically generate a PDF from a data source, but in my program i need to define some general layouts for my PDFs, as example a simle only-text layout, a layout with a title a

Re: [iText-questions] Regarding iText performance

2006-12-07 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Nishanth > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:54 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [iText-questions] Regarding iText performance > > I want to use iText in my appl;icatio

Re: [iText-questions] book review 'iText in Action'

2006-12-07 Thread Matt Benson
Great job, Bruno. I hope to purchase the book soon. I noticed that on the Manning site it's not cross-referenced from the Java section, which I feel is bad for would-be buyers and thus for Manning as a company. I mention it just in case you have any influence here... :) br, Matt --- "Bruno Low

Re: [iText-questions] Unable to save PDF on local machine

2006-12-07 Thread Paulo Soares
See http://itext.ugent.be/library/question.php?id=43 Paulo > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of swapna reddy > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:42 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [iText-questions] Unable

[iText-questions] Regarding iText performance

2006-12-07 Thread Nishanth
I want to use iText in my appl;ication. Please give me the following information. 1) Performance of iText. If you can provide numbers it would be great. 2) Names of the companies that are using iText. Regards, Nishanth. - T

Re: [iText-questions] Global Underline Position?

2006-12-07 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bruno Lowagie (iText) > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 2:30 PM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Global Underline Position? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[iText-questions] Unable to save PDF on local machine

2006-12-07 Thread swapna reddy
Hi Iam able to edit the PDF Form with Adobe Reader but unable to save a copy on my local machine. (Interactive PDF Form was generated using iText Java Class Library) How the above requirement can be acheived, even if the user has only Adobe Reader installed on his machine. Any

Re: [iText-questions] Global Underline Position?

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, i know this is available by Chunk. But this is in use with Font not > practical. I think it's a good idea to set a public static variable. > Here my patch ... Hmm... we kind of decided not to allow static variables that can be changed by end users anymore (except f

Re: [iText-questions] Global Underline Position?

2006-12-07 Thread csowada
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > is there a way to set the Underline Position at global level for a Chunk? > > No, you should use Chunk.setUnderline() as documented > in the JavaDoc API as well as in the book. > br, > Bruno Yes, i know this is available by Chunk. But this is i

Re: [iText-questions] Global Underline Position?

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > is there a way to set the Underline Position at global level for a Chunk? No, you should use Chunk.setUnderline() as documented in the JavaDoc API as well as in the book. br, Bruno -

[iText-questions] Global Underline Position?

2006-12-07 Thread csowada
Hello, is there a way to set the Underline Position at global level for a Chunk? I've found this thread to this problem ... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/6409/focus=6409 Christian Sowada- Take Sur

[iText-questions] RTF: extra page border

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
fei jianfeng wrote: > Dear: > I am sorry to interrupt you! > I have met a question when report file of *.rft in using iText! > It's written in appurtenance! Not sure if the word 'appurtenance' can be used as a synonym for attachment (I had to look it up before I understood what you meant). Also

Re: [iText-questions] Font problems

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Noe Rocha wrote: > I have setted Scribus to use just Arial Bold, and still when opening with > acrobat i get the same errors, i have the font on c:\windows\fonts, i think > acrobat know this place, but this only happens with the checkboxes, if i set > the checkboxes to "No", it opens and prints the

Re: [iText-questions] Font problems

2006-12-07 Thread Noe Rocha
I have setted Scribus to use just Arial Bold, and still when opening with acrobat i get the same errors, i have the font on c:\windows\fonts, i think acrobat know this place, but this only happens with the checkboxes, if i set the checkboxes to "No", it opens and prints the textfiels values ok.

Re: [iText-questions] Indentation of Sections

2006-12-07 Thread Dirk Ulrich
I found that out in the meantime. Thank you, anyway. Furthermore I found out that there was the older version itext-1.4.2.jar in the lib directory as well and Java took this JAR instead of iText.jar of version 1.4.7x. Now it works well. Thanks a lot ...and quick races between campus. ;-) Best r

Re: [iText-questions] Font problems

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Noe Rocha wrote: > Hi. > I have created a sample pdf with forms with Scribus. > When filling the values it seems everything works well well but when i open > the pdf with Acrobat i get: > > Could not find a font in the Resources Dictionary - using Helvetica instead > and the "check sign" on the ch

[iText-questions] Font problems

2006-12-07 Thread Noe Rocha
Hi. I have created a sample pdf with forms with Scribus. When filling the values it seems everything works well well but when i open the pdf with Acrobat i get: Could not find a font in the Resources Dictionary - using Helvetica instead and the "check sign" on the checkboxes is translated to a "4

Re: [iText-questions] Indentation of Sections

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Dirk Ulrich wrote: > Ooops! ...but I do only have itext.jar in the buildPath downloaded > yesterday from: http://itext.ugent.be/library/downloads/iText.jar > > Isn't this the current version? The jar is runnable. If I click on the link above and tell me browser it may execute the jar, a Swin

Re: [iText-questions] Indentation of Sections

2006-12-07 Thread Dirk Ulrich
Ooops! ...but I do only have itext.jar in the buildPath downloaded yesterday from: http://itext.ugent.be/library/downloads/iText.jar Isn't this the current version? Regards, Dirk > > Original-Nachricht > Datum: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:58:48 +0100 > Von: "Bruno Lowagi

[iText-questions] book review 'iText in Action'

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Hello all, I posted this yesterday, but the mailing list is acting weird again. I don't find my mail in the archives. Anyway, yesterday I found the first online book review of 'iText in Action'. It was written by the developer of JFreeChart, David Gilbert: http://www.jfree.org/reviews/itextinaction

Re: [iText-questions] Indentation of Sections

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Dirk Ulrich wrote: > Mmh. :-) > Have you got the two emails I have sent? No, I haven't. I found your first mail on USENET, but it didn't reach my mailbox. The mailing list seems to be having problems. When I compare the archived mails on USENET; I see more mails are archived than I have actually

Re: [iText-questions] Indentation of Sections

2006-12-07 Thread Dirk Ulrich
Mmh. :-) Have you got the two emails I have sent? In the first I described the problem. In the second I just sent the result as pdf files. When I just add a Section S to a Chapter C and then add a Section S1 to the Section S everything is well. But when I add a Section S1 to the Section S this w

Re: [iText-questions] Indentation of Sections

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Ignore my previous mail. Seems like the mailing list is sending me the mails in the right order. Dirk Ulrich wrote: > I am using itext.jar downloaded yesterday. No you aren't. Simple inspection of the PDF files tells me you are using iText 1.4.2 NOT iText 1.4.7x. Check File>Document Properties>

Re: [iText-questions] Indentation of Sections

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Dirk Ulrich wrote: > I would expect a result the other way around. Again you have lost me. I fail to see a question in your mail. If you have a problem; please explain it in a way that I can understand it. br, Bruno - Take S

Re: [iText-questions] Indentation of Sections

2006-12-07 Thread Dirk Ulrich
...here's the output: Dirk_indentation_left.pdf is the result for: Section conditionSection = sec.addSection(20f, "Condition section"); and Dirk_indentation_right.pdf is the result for: Section conditionSection = sec.addSection(-20f, "Condition section"); I would expect a result the other way

Re: [iText-questions] Indentation of Sections

2006-12-07 Thread Dirk Ulrich
Could you, please, play around with my example sent to you yesterday? When I add a Section to the mainChapter (without indentation) and then add a Section to the just added Section with an indentation, negative values bcome positive values and vice versa. Paragraph conditionTitle = new Paragraph

Re: [iText-questions] Appended TIFF image problem

2006-12-07 Thread Paulo Soares
There may be a bug in scaleToFit() when the image is rotated. I'll investigate. Paulo > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bryan Bunch > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:10 PM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Sub

Re: [iText-questions] Why does getDescent and getAscent returns 0 forCJK ?

2006-12-07 Thread Paulo Soares
There's no BBox information for the CJK fonts and the ascent/descent in that method relies on it. Paulo > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ti Lian Hwang > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:00 AM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourc

[iText-questions] Why does getDescent and getAscent returns 0 for CJK ?

2006-12-07 Thread Ti Lian Hwang
The following prog shows that the getDescent() and getAscent for a CJK font returns 0, although the properties shows a non zero value. I'm using itext-1.4.6,jar and the iTextAsian.jar public class x { /** Creates a new instance of x */ public static void main(String[] args) {

Re: [iText-questions] iTextSharp Install

2006-12-07 Thread Paulo Soares
What app? Paulo - Original Message - From: "Adam Fortino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 6:16 AM Subject: [iText-questions] iTextSharp Install I down loaded the zip files for iTextSharp into a folder that I specified. Currently I have the .cs and the .dll f

[iText-questions] iTextSharp Install

2006-12-07 Thread Adam Fortino
I down loaded the zip files for iTextSharp into a folder that I specified. Currently I have the .cs and the .dll files in the same folder. I added a reference to the .dll file through visual C# 2005, and I am able to create references to the objects. ex. Document myDocument = new Document(PageS

Re: [iText-questions] Problem with footer and passing parameters!

2006-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Jose Gutierrez wrote: > Hello there im working with no success with footers in itext, i have a > problem, > i paste my code, a part of, but i want to combine, helloworld servlet with end > page at same time, i can figure out what is wrong, i use Sun java Studio > Creator > and this give me a erro