Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-03-07 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 04:49 PM 3/7/2006, Petter Nyström wrote: Whoa! You were right! I can view the image! It means I must have done something right. Wow... And now I can use ImageMagick for converting the CMYK format to something slightly more universal Yes, that's a nice easy solution for you...AT LE

Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-03-07 Thread Petter Nyström
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: Images in PDF files are either in JPEG/JFIF format OR they are a raw "array of pixels". In the first case, you can indeed just "dump the data to disk" and get a usable image. In the second, you will need to convert it to some standard image

Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-03-07 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 02:07 PM 3/7/2006, Petter Nyström wrote: I hope this is correct. Writing these bytes to a file will however not produce anything useful. That is correct, in many cases. Images in PDF files are either in JPEG/JFIF format OR they are a raw "array of pixels". In the first c

Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-03-07 Thread Paulo Soares
From: "Petter Nyström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc. On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, bruno wrote: Forgive me for not answering all the questions at once. Let's do this step by step. First d

Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-03-07 Thread Petter Nyström
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, bruno wrote: Forgive me for not answering all the questions at once. Let's do this step by step. First download the iText Toolbox: http://www.lowagie.com/iText/itext.jnlp [...] That was a neat example. Thanks! It helped me a lot in penetrating the outer defences of iText.

RE: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-03-06 Thread Paulo Soares
rom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Petter Nyström > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:22 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc. > > Hello again list! > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006,

Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-03-06 Thread bruno
Petter Nyström wrote: Could someone give me a quick read-up on how iText does its stuff behind the scenes? I think that'd be crucial understanding for me if I am going to use iText to do my work. Forgive me for not answering all the questions at once. Let's do this step by step. First downlo

Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-03-06 Thread Petter Nyström
Hello again list! On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: At 09:39 AM 2/24/2006, Petter Nyström wrote: One of the basic things I want to do is to pull images out of a PDF, let third-party software modify these images and then plug the modified images back into the PDF without changing

Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-02-25 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 03:18 PM 2/25/2006, Petter Nyström wrote: You could use iText to extract the images, though you'd also need a VERY detailed understanding of image handling and color management in order to make sure that the extracted data was in the correct form. That sounds problematic. I assume

Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-02-25 Thread Petter Nyström
First, thanks a lot for the response! It gave me some more insight into my problem. I suspect I might have taken these questions to the wrong place, but I really have no better place to ask. So here are a few follow-ups to further pin-down my understanding. On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Leonard Rosenth

Re: [iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-02-24 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 09:39 AM 2/24/2006, Petter Nyström wrote: Hello! I am browsing the internet for code libraries to work with PDF documents. So far, iText looks the best! iText is an excellent library for many things PDF - but certainly not all... One of the basic things I want to do is to pull i

[iText-questions] Can iText replace images etc.

2006-02-24 Thread Petter Nyström
Hello! I am browsing the internet for code libraries to work with PDF documents. So far, iText looks the best! It would be of great help to me though, if I could get a few questions answered about the library before I really start to dig into it. One of the basic things I want to do is to pull