Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page

2007-10-07 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
t works for now. :) Thanks again. Ted - Original Message From: Ted Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Post all your questions about iText here [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2007 3:51:31 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page Thanks a bunch, Mark, for the

Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page

2007-10-04 Thread Ted Chen
n't like my current solution of cropping out the invisibles. I appreciate your help. Ted - Original Message From: Mark Storer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Post all your questions about iText here Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2007 2:15:21 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] remo

Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page

2007-10-04 Thread Ted Chen
of cropping out the invisibles. I appreciate your help. Ted - Original Message From: Mark Storer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Post all your questions about iText here Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2007 2:15:21 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page No bueno. Each of

Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Storer
No bueno. Each of those slides is made up of a collection of resources & drawing commands. To determine where one ends and the other starts (and which one is which), you'd need to parse the page's content stream. !trivial. iText includes a basic content tokenizer, but beyond that you're in for

Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page

2007-10-04 Thread Ted Chen
ay, October 4, 2007 11:06:30 AM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page Post a link to the PDF. Removing content can range from easy to impossible. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Ted Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions ab

Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Storer
The general solution is Hard. You have to determine which resources (XObjects, fonts, and so forth) no longer falls within the page bounds by parsing the page's content stream and calculating the bounding box of each use of each resource. Your specific case may be Very Easy, but it's difficult to

Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page

2007-10-04 Thread Paulo Soares
Post a link to the PDF. Removing content can range from easy to impossible. Paulo - Original Message - From: "Ted Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions]

Re: [iText-questions] remove content from a page

2007-10-04 Thread Ted Chen
Any suggestions? Thanks! - Original Message From: Ted Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, October 1, 2007 12:08:30 PM Subject: [iText-questions] remove content from a page This might be a pdf newbie's question. The pdf

[iText-questions] remove content from a page

2007-10-01 Thread Ted Chen
This might be a pdf newbie's question. The pdf file I have contains 2 slides printed on each page. I only want to keep 1 slide on it. To remove 1 slide from a page, I currently gets a handle on the page then sets its cropbox. It works fine, at least visually. However, the file size still re