Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-27 Thread riffla
OK. This is a short example . And this is another example. Looking at the two sentences above, the first one is the situation I want to avoid. Looking at the position of the the period, this character alone has been pushed to a new line, in contrast to the second one where the word 'example'

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread Andreas Kuehne
Hi Jian, from a first look at the code sample I would assume the difference is the missing padding in version 2. But I'm not quite sure how a missing padding wouldn't cause a BER decoding error ... I always a good idea to post sample PDF. Many guys on the list have their favourite tools to

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-27 Thread 1T3XT info
On 27/10/2010 8:26, riffla wrote: OK. This is a short example . And this is another example. Looking at the two sentences above, the first one is the situation I want to avoid. Looking at the position of the the period, this character alone has been pushed to a new line, in contrast to

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-27 Thread 1T3XT info
On 27/10/2010 8:38, 1T3XT info wrote: Yes, if I understand correctly, Oops, I think I wasn't awake when I wrote the previous answer. I thought you only wanted to split lines when a period was encountered. On second thoughts, you want to split lines on the last space character before each

[iText-questions] iText changed document and Adobe extended features no longer available.

2010-10-27 Thread Margaret Leonny Biggs
Hi all, Most of the discussion about privileges in pdf forms seems to be about locking the thing down. I'm having problems in the other direction. I have a website where a user, after login, can download pdf forms. Since I already know a few things about the user, I can prefill some of the

Re: [iText-questions] iText changed document and Adobe extended features no longer available.

2010-10-27 Thread 1T3XT info
On 27/10/2010 7:32, Margaret Leonny Biggs wrote: Hi all, Most of the discussion about privileges in pdf forms seems to be about locking the thing down. No, it doesn't. Section 8.7 of the second edition of iText in Action describes what to do when you encounter this dreaded dialog:

Re: [iText-questions] iText changed document and Adobe extended features no longer available.

2010-10-27 Thread John Renfrew
Margaret It is nothing to do with iText and everything to do with Acrobat. After filling (or stamping) you need to process them in Acrobat Pro first to enable reader rights under the extended menu, and this can be achieved externally by Applescript on Mac or AutoIt on PC. It is possible

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-27 Thread riffla
Thanks again for helpful replies... Did have a second look in the code generating the PDF, and I think I've missed a part here. Using property files to retrieve words/sentences to be added I sometimes add a white space and sometimes not depending om different conditions. And in this case I think

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread mkl
张健, jian zhang wrote: my code is: byte[] signedHashValue1 = server.sha1_rsa(content); byte[] hash = server.sha1(content); byte[] signedHashValue2=server.rsa(hash); when I use signedHashValue1, it's ok, I can get a valid signature in pdf; but when I use signedHashValue2, get an error,

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-27 Thread info
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:23:20 -0700 (PDT), riffla rif...@hotmail.com wrote: In other words, as long as the character preceding a period is a non white space character (or a line break etc.) the period will be considered as a part of the preceding block of characters, am I right? Yes, you are

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread jian zhang
Thanks Michael, Could you please give me a sample code for using DigestInfo then RSA to generate a signature? Use Bouncy Castle library? I'm a newer in this security field. The reason is that SHA1withRSA does not merely mean take the SHA1 hash and encrypt it using RSA. It actually means take

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread mkl
Pedro, P3d3r0s0 wrote: I have no idea in what way PdfSignatureAppearance.VERISIGN_SIGNED differs from PdfSignatureAppearance.SELF_SIGNED... [...] Heres is a sample of a signed document. The signature isnt verified because i'd need to put the certificate in adobe reader i think, not sure if

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread mkl
张健, jian zhang wrote: Could you please give me a sample code for using DigestInfo then RSA to generate a signature? Use Bouncy Castle library? I'm a newer in this security field. As mentioned before I merely have to cope with externally generated /adbe.pkcs7.detached signatures; therefore,

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-27 Thread riffla
Great to find helpful people like you, thanks again... /R -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Keeping-things-together-in-the-same-line-tp3013994p3015074.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread P3d3r0s0
Hey, looks like you are right Michael. When i selected a handler for the plugin im able to see that theres no hash algorithm and there are verification errors... Im sure its possible to sign files with the portuguese citizen's smartcard, i just used the pdfSignerDemo and signed this sample:

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread mkl
Pedro, P3d3r0s0 wrote: Im sure its possible to sign files with the portuguese citizen's smartcard, i just used the pdfSignerDemo and signed this sample: http://www.filefactory.com/file/b402157/n/_signed_pdf Which pdfSignerDemo? (This sample, BTW, uses the /SubFilter /adbe.pkcs7.sha1 which

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread P3d3r0s0
Hello again, I got few small breakthroughs. For starters i now know i can upload files to nabble instead of filefactory(thanks Michael) :P i wasnt sure that people that used the mailing list would be able to see the files if i used nabble. Also found out that something goes wrong when

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread mkl
Pedro, P3d3r0s0 wrote: Also found out that something goes wrong when generating the digest. [...] if i generate a byte array from the inputstream and sign it afterwards, adobe recognizes the signature and gives the glorious message that the file wasnt altered after being signed. [...] if

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread P3d3r0s0
Hey Michael, That makes a lot of sense (SHA1withRSA is a two-step algorithm), and thus i was going at it the wrong way by hashing it first and then rehashing and signing Too bad jian zhang method of generating the hash and then applying RSA doesnt work, my next step was going to be to apply

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread jian zhang
Hi, Suppose content-hash-signature there is already a SHA-1 hash *x*, signature *s = f(x, otherInfo)*, Is there a method *f * In iText or Bouncy Castle library? -- Best Regards, 张健 -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread mkl
Pedro, P3d3r0s0 wrote: Too bad jian zhang method of generating the hash and then applying RSA doesnt work, my next step was going to be to apply this to a server-client application and that separating RSA from SHA1 would end in less bytes to send between both. Theres no way of doing it,

Re: [iText-questions] Another invalid signature thread

2010-10-27 Thread jian zhang
Hi, Pedro I also need to write a program to send a SHA-1 hash from client to server, then return the signature from server to client. So, if you find a good solution, please send me a email. Too bad jian zhang method of generating the hash and then applying RSA doesnt work, my next step was

[iText-questions] how to use Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED in one line in ColumnText?

2010-10-27 Thread forest
Hello guys, I want to write a program to make Author of index file like this: AuthorA ..1 AuthorBBB.12 The hard work is to calculate how many points should I add, I use Basefont's method GetWidthPoint to

Re: [iText-questions] how to use Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED in one line in ColumnText?

2010-10-27 Thread Bob Barnes
Senlin, There are a few different approaches you could try, but they all involve using DottedLineSeparator. One that works for me is as follows: Chunk chunk=new Chunk(Some text,someFont); Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph(chunk);