Re: [iText-questions] URGENT: Can we certify the pdf using iTextAPI?

2007-08-09 Thread Paulo Soares
What you want is not something that you get a formula one day and have the job done the next day. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/32338/ for a taste of what's ahead. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Gurpreet Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your

Re: [iText-questions] URGENT: Can we certify the pdf using iTextAPI ?

2007-08-09 Thread Gurpreet Singh
Hi, I am trying to sign the pdf with the program sample given under heading: How to sign with an external signature dictionary (authenticatedAttributes example) at the following url: http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/howtosign.html But when i am opening the pdf then i am getting the ? mark in the

Re: [iText-questions] URGENT: Can we certify the pdf using iTextAPI ?

2007-08-09 Thread Paulo Soares
- Original Message - From: "Gurpreet Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] URGENT: Can we certify the pdf using iTextAPI ? > Hi, > > Thanks for your prompt reply. I am not able

Re: [iText-questions] URGENT: Can we certify the pdf using iText API ?

2007-08-09 Thread Gurpreet Singh
Hi, Thanks for your prompt reply. I am not able to find the CERTIFIED_NO_CHANGES_ALLOWED constant in the PdfSignatureApperance class in my itext.jar. I am using 1.4.4 version. There is a method called setCertified(true). When i am setting it to true, it is displaying the Blue Ribbon in the PDF. B

Re: [iText-questions] URGENT: Can we certify the pdf using iText API ?

2007-08-09 Thread Paulo Soares
http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/howtosign.html#howtocertify Paulo - Original Message - From: "Gurpreet Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:18 PM Subject: [iText-questions] URGENT: Can we certify the pdf using iText API ? > Hi all, > > Can anyone confirm th

[iText-questions] URGENT: Can we certify the pdf using iText API ?

2007-08-09 Thread Gurpreet Singh
Hi all, Can anyone confirm the following statement: *iText* can sign *PDF* but not *certify PDF or is it supported in *any new version of iText? Please comment on the above statement so that the same i can tell to my employer to look for other options to decide to use other API's. One more thin

Re: [iText-questions] writing binary data in pdf417...

2007-08-09 Thread Marcel Gil Vega
Hi, I was coding like you say but i found the problem !! It was in the reader pdf417 not in your writer pdf417. Now i can write and read the pdf417 without any problem!!! Thanks you very much for your attention and your time. Best regards, Marcel Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If y

Re: [iText-questions] size of the pdf created with PdfCopy is largerthan original pdf

2007-08-09 Thread new2pdf
The original pdf was optimized using PDF Optiomization from Adobe Professional. I have 70 pdfs with pages ranging from 20-30. These pdfs has been created by combining 15-20 pdfs based on possible user selection criteria. Now I need to take out 2 common instructions pages from these 70 pdfs. I was

Re: [iText-questions] writing binary data in pdf417...

2007-08-09 Thread Paulo Soares
If you use: BarcodePDF417.Text = byte[]; you'll have binary values. BarcodePDF417.PDF417_FORCE_BINARY only forces one type of encoding and the symbol can be shorter (for an image, for example) but it will also work witout it. That option is there for the benefit of some readers. Paulo - Or

Re: [iText-questions] Problem with the horizontal alignment of Phrases in PDFPCells

2007-08-09 Thread Arvid Schönberg
> I didn't realize that Arvid's reply was sent to > my personal address instead of to the mailing list. Oh, sorry. I just clicked the reply-button in my e-mail client. This won't happen again. :-) > I wrote a similar application with this kind of output Yeah, thanks for this advice. The exa

Re: [iText-questions] Autoexpand or programmatically expand a textbox

2007-08-09 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Robert Cearley wrote: > Using iText and an XFA from (LiveCycle), is it possible to have a > textbox (on an existing pdf) auto expand (or programmatically > expand it) as you fill it with text. > A dynamic XFA form will do this when populated via Acrobat/Read

Re: [iText-questions] use adobe reader to view pdf content

2007-08-09 Thread Felipe Gaúcho
two options: 1 - use the Adobe Viewer for Java Bean: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrviewer/acrvdnld.html#bean 2 - Trigger the Adobe reader through your java application, using that old browser trigger techniques: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip66.html On 8/9/07, choudhar

[iText-questions] use adobe reader to view pdf content

2007-08-09 Thread choudhary
Hi , I already have the pdf content ,and I need to show it to the user by using Acrobat Reader . I am using Itext Library ,but did not find any solution.Please help me at the earliest . thanks in advance, santosh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/use-adobe-reader-to-view-pd

[iText-questions] writing binary data in pdf417...

2007-08-09 Thread Marcel Gil Vega
Hi, I want to write data in pdf417 using the binary mode because i want to save an image inside. I try with pdf.Options = BarcodePDF417.PDF417_FORCE_BINARY; and later when i read the it i get the value 63(?) in ascii if the corresponding value of byte is bigger than 128. I suppose it is hap

Re: [iText-questions] How to populate a listbox

2007-08-09 Thread Robert Cearley
Bruno - Thanks for the quick response and great book... On 8/9/07, Bruno Lowagie (iText) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert Cearley wrote: > > i'm trying to populate a listbox for a document that was created with > > adobe acrobat 8 life cycle designer. > > That's an XFA form (LiveCycle), not

[iText-questions] Autoexpand or programmatically expand a textbox

2007-08-09 Thread Robert Cearley
Using iText and an XFA from (LiveCycle), is it possible to have a textbox (on an existing pdf) auto expand (or programmatically expand it) as you fill it with text. Using iText, I can put several values with carriage returns in a textbox. I notice when I populate the textbox, you can use the arro

[iText-questions] addJavaScript doesn't work

2007-08-09 Thread Charles DESCHODT
Hello, I'm trying to open the print pop-up automaticaly when the pdf opening. I tried to do like in the SilentPrint iText Tutorial (http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/#part1), but the addJavaScript method aways throw a NullPointerExcpetion ! I found a similar problem on the list (http://o

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Signing and Timestamping it using iText

2007-08-09 Thread Harakiri
Try searching this list, somebody supplied sources only a few days ago for timestamping and a howto for usb token signing which is the same as luna hsm signing for java anyway. --- Gurpreet Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have been looking at > http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/howtos

Re: [iText-questions] Problem with the horizontal alignment of Phrases in PDFPCells

2007-08-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Paulo Soares wrote: > Looks like an instalation/server problem. All the metrics returned 0. Yes it was, I didn't realize that Arvid's reply was sent to my personal address instead of to the mailing list. Anyway, this is part of his reply: "My tool is extensible, it is able to load jar files as pl

Re: [iText-questions] Problem with the horizontal alignment of Phrases in PDFPCells

2007-08-09 Thread Paulo Soares
Looks like an instalation/server problem. All the metrics returned 0. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Bruno Lowagie (iText)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:42 AM Subject: Re: [iText-questions]

Re: [iText-questions] Problem with the horizontal alignment of Phrases in PDFPCells

2007-08-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Arvid Schönberg wrote: The table that has to be generated has cells with different text alignments setted by the method PDFPCell#setHorizontalAlignment(int). It does work somehow, but the result doesn't look like what I expected. The left aligned phrases are absolutely fine. The centered and the

[iText-questions] Problem with the horizontal alignment of Phrases in PDFPCells

2007-08-09 Thread Arvid Schönberg
Hi, I am an iText newbie, that's why I'd like to firstly introduce myself. My name is Arvid and I am a student at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, Germany. Maybe my English isn't that good, 'cause I'm a German and I actually don't speak English every day. ;-) So, please apol

Re: [iText-questions] posting in list of itext...

2007-08-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote: > Marcel Gil Vega wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I only want to post at mailing list. > > And so you did. > But what's the point if you don't have a question? Aha, I searched my SPAM folder for your name and found this question, sent to an address at lowagie.com that doesn't exi

Re: [iText-questions] question

2007-08-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Paulo Soares wrote: > iText can and is used for reporting usually for custom reporting. This > involves some work. For everyday reporting, simple tables, master detail, > etc. it's better to use specialized tools such as birt or jasperreports. Note that specialized reporting tools such as Eclips

Re: [iText-questions] posting in list of itext...

2007-08-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Marcel Gil Vega wrote: > Hi, > > I only want to post at mailing list. And so you did. But what's the point if you don't have a question? br, Bruno - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log f

Re: [iText-questions] How to populate a listbox

2007-08-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Robert Cearley wrote: > i'm trying to populate a listbox for a document that was created with > adobe acrobat 8 life cycle designer. That's an XFA form (LiveCycle), not an AcroForm (Acrobat). Currently iText doesn't support populating listboxes in XFA forms. br, Bruno --