[iText-questions] Changing the blur appearance of Check Box fields

2011-10-01 Thread steve poling
Hi, I'm having difficulty with two types of AcroFields, Check Box and Text, and I think they're related. As you may recall, the appearance of a field can change with its state. We're having difficulty controling the appearance of the field through these changes. When we generate Check Box fiel

[iText-questions] Itext in Action second edition: extract text from 3 column pdf pages

2011-10-01 Thread Mike Ferrando
Sirs, I am attempting to extract text from a pdf that has 3 column (newspaper style). I purchased your first edition some time ago. I have worked with the iText library extensively. The library is really great! I read this reply to the same type of request about extracting text here: http://stack

Re: [iText-questions] How to change indirect reference object?

2011-10-01 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 2/10/2011 6:53, WMJ wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for the reply. I've read the PDF Reference ISO32000 and > chapter 16 in part 4 of your book, and understood the consequence of > mistakenly replacing the reference can badly destroy the PDF document. > The introduced method in Part 4 is to crea

Re: [iText-questions] FontDescriptor without FontFile dictionary

2011-10-01 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 2/10/2011 3:50, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > That doesn't sounds like a valid PDF file – but you'd have to post it > for us to confirm. Maybe it's a composite font with the font descriptor in a descendant font. I don't think that's covered in the example. However: inspecting the file with RUPS wo

Re: [iText-questions] How to change indirect reference object?

2011-10-01 Thread WMJ
Hello, Thank you for the reply. I've read the PDF Reference ISO32000 and chapter 16 in part 4 of your book, and understood the consequence of mistakenly replacing the reference can badly destroy the PDF document. The introduced method in Part 4 is to create a new object from PdfWriter, get th

Re: [iText-questions] Seeing guidance on PDF images

2011-10-01 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Why would you want to write a completely new PDF library when there are NUMEROUS ones out there – including the iText library whose mailing list you posted on… Leonard From: New Developer mailto:secur...@isscp.com>> Reply-To: Post here mailto:itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>> Date: Sat,

Re: [iText-questions] XFA form manipulation issue

2011-10-01 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Static XFA is really a MIX of PDF page content with XFA/XML forms data bindings. As such, any visual change (such as the border color) MUST be done using standard PDF page content operations and NOT simply XML modifications. Leonard From: Narasayya Donepudi mailto:donepudi.narasa...@sevyait.co

Re: [iText-questions] FontDescriptor without FontFile dictionary

2011-10-01 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
That doesn't sounds like a valid PDF file – but you'd have to post it for us to confirm. From: William Bell mailto:wrb...@btinternet.com>> Reply-To: Post here mailto:itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:46:55 -0700 To: Post here mailto:itext-questions@lists.sourcefo

Re: [iText-questions] Beginner Question on itext vs itextSharp

2011-10-01 Thread Tom Berchenbriter
I am running a one man show, I contracted out the work, and his expertise was in c#. So Ive been learning c#. I dont have alot of direction in this project, I really am now needing good resources in iTextSharp to continue the momentum... I am a beginner, but have been studying c# and .NET alot,

Re: [iText-questions] Beginner Question on itext vs itextSharp

2011-10-01 Thread Tom Berchenbriter
Ill ask the question here then. I directed a project that resulted in this code. But it doesnt rotate certain documents right. I need to modify it to fix a certain document its kind of mangling. I think this is the relavant code //The current file path

Re: [iText-questions] evenly distribute content across page

2011-10-01 Thread Jason Berk
DuhI just got that example up and running in my eclipse...didn't make the mods you advised. Sorry about that...let me follow your suggestions. Jason -Original Message- From: 1T3XT BVBA [mailto:i...@1t3xt.info] Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 12:20 PM To: Post all your questions abo

Re: [iText-questions] evenly distribute content across page

2011-10-01 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 1/10/2011 18:09, Jason Berk wrote: > That's not _exactly_ what I wantedIf I had 30 things I would like > three columns/tables of 10even if a column/table of 30 fit on the > current page. Well, that's exactly what I explained. Can you take a closer look at my response? If you don't like

Re: [iText-questions] evenly distribute content across page

2011-10-01 Thread Jason Berk
That's not _exactly_ what I wantedIf I had 30 things I would like three columns/tables of 10even if a column/table of 30 fit on the current page. I want to evenly distribute items across all available horizontal white space...not vertically until I'm at the bottom of the page. I'll send i

[iText-questions] Seeing guidance on PDF images

2011-10-01 Thread New Developer
I'm trying to develop a mini PDF library and I'm stuck on getting images into the PDF using to read just a simple (camera generated picture) jpg file Bitmap bmp; ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); bmp.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, 100 , bos);

Re: [iText-questions] Beginner Question on itext vs itextSharp

2011-10-01 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 1/10/2011 17:13, Tom Berchenbriter wrote: > I am trying to learn iText, and I have the iText in Action Book, but it is > written for java, but Ive been learning c#, and our company uses code that > references iTextSharp. I either have to start learning java which iText was > designed initiall

[iText-questions] Beginner Question on itext vs itextSharp

2011-10-01 Thread Tom Berchenbriter
I am trying to learn iText, and I have the iText in Action Book, but it is written for java, but Ive been learning c#, and our company uses code that references iTextSharp. I either have to start learning java which iText was designed initially with, or should I just continue learning iTextSharp

Re: [iText-questions] evenly distribute content across page

2011-10-01 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 28/09/2011 21:17, Jason Berk wrote: > What I really need is the ability to add cells to a table from top to > bottom and not left to right. I just returned from Paris (I've been teaching iText for two days), and I'm working myself through a huge pile of mail. I saw an answer to this mail, but

Re: [iText-questions] How to change indirect reference object?

2011-10-01 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 30/09/2011 5:06, WMJ wrote: > Is it possible to change the PdfIndirectReference? Yes, you could use the functionality explained in part 4 of "iText in Action - Second Edition" to do this, but I advise against doing this, as you can seriously damage your PDF if you're not aware of all the pos

Re: [iText-questions] Bookmark

2011-10-01 Thread 1T3XT BVBA
On 30/09/2011 13:06, Khatri Anand wrote: > I want to add Bookmark into PDF. I honestly doubt that you've got a copy of the book. If you do, I honestly doubt that you've read it. If you did, you should look for the setOutlines() method in PdfStamper. Throw away your code, start anew.