[iText-questions] Can iText convert PDF to Text

2013-03-01 Thread Ross
I'd like to run an API from my program that will convert PDF to a text file. Does iText do that? If not what program does? Thanks, --RR -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDyn

[iText-questions] Problem printing iText PDFs on Solaris using iprint command

2004-02-06 Thread Ross . Dyson
My application currently creates PDF files for printing.  They are printed from Solaris on the server using the "iprint" command. When a user wishes to do a reprint of a number of documents, it is best to join them together so that they come out on the printer as 1 job. I have started testing wi

[iText-questions] Re: Problem printing iText PDFs on Solaris using iprint command

2004-02-10 Thread Ross . Dyson
eated from XSL-FO, which don't even start with %PDF. The PDFs are passed to ghostscript to generate postscript that is sent to the printer using "lp". If I can't sort this out then I will have to recommend we spend $5000 USD to get a commercial PDF library  :-( Ross Dyson

[iText-questions] Re: Problem printing iText PDFs on Solaris using iprint command

2004-02-22 Thread Ross . Dyson
Sysops made some changes to /etc/magic file to enable "file" command to recognise PDF version 1.4 files. Problem solved.

[iText-questions] Anchor in columntext?

2004-04-08 Thread Ross Presser
Is it possible to place a link in columntext? I tried creating an anchor and using .AddText(); although it did not generate an error (because anchor derives from phrase), no link showed up, just the text. Ross Presser · Imtek, Inc. · Network Administrator · MCSE NEO organizes my Outlook

[iText-questions] PdfPCell.setColSpan doesn't work for RTF

2008-10-29 Thread Ross Cohen
tColspan" and didn't find anything germaine, so I'd thought I'd post ... using: 2.1.3, jre 1.6 xp Ross -Snip --- import java.awt.Color; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOExceptio

[iText-questions] Opening a specific page of PDF

2007-10-31 Thread Ross Aird
Hi was wondering if it is possible to open specific page(s) of a PDF document. For Downloading purposes for example. i.e only opening the required pages of a 30+ page document to save download time. Thanks and Regards Ross Aird

[iText-questions] Re: PS to PDF

2005-11-20 Thread Ross Presser
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:39:58 + (UTC), John Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if it was possible to convert any PostScript files to PDF > with the iText API. I guess the answer is no (we can only add EPS files) > but I wanted to be sure. No, this operation is known as distillation; you w

[iText-questions] Re: PS to PDF

2005-11-22 Thread Ross Presser
[Top posting error corrected.] On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:27:35 +0100, Carsten Hammer wrote: > Ross Presser wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:39:58 + (UTC), John Smith wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I was wondering if it was possible to convert any PostScript f

[iText-questions] Re: [itextsharp-questions] CVS Snapshot

2006-05-08 Thread Ross Presser
My apologies for a needless question; I found the answer elsewhere on the list, where you pointed us to  http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2352&group_id=1 which describes the CVS troubles.On 5/8/06, Ross Presser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How come the cvs was frozen? S

[iText-questions] Re: [itextsharp-questions] CVS Snapshot

2006-05-08 Thread Ross Presser
How come the cvs was frozen? Sourceforge problems?On 5/6/06, Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The anonymous sourceforce CVS has been frozen for a month now and manythings happened since then. You can find a curent CVS snapshot of itext and itextsharp at:https://sourceforge.net/project/showfi

[iText-questions] Using parser to go HTML>>PDF always closes document.

2003-02-21 Thread Ross Cohen
ave I missed something simple or are there darker forces at work? Thx, Ross --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML,

[iText-questions] Re: Support for "First Line Indent" ???

2004-07-22 Thread Ross Presser
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:42:06 -0500, Keith L. Musser wrote: > I'm currently finding iText 1.02b useful for generating PDF. Nice job on an easy to > use API. :) > > There is one capability that I need which, as best I can tell, is not supported: > I'd like to be able to easily output something f

[iText-questions] Re: (no subject)

2004-08-24 Thread Ross Presser
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:21:50 +0300, Lucian Sasu wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following problem. When I submit a request to a bea server to create a > pdf source, the request is sent 2 or event 3 times. The workaround suggested at > http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html (using of an embed tag) di

[iText-questions] Re: Control over Y Position

2004-09-16 Thread Ross Presser
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:39:51 +0100, Paulo Soares wrote: > Here's what I do: > > - load the ColumnText with the text > - make a duplicate of ColumnText > - simulate the ColumnText placing and obtain that way the size the text will take > - place the duplicate > > Best Regards, > Paulo Soares >

[iText-questions] Re: Using iText to convert PCL to PDF

2004-10-06 Thread Ross Presser
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:32:12 +0200, Örjan Brun wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to use IText to convert PCL5 documents into PDF ? > > > Best regards > > Örjan Brun > Qnab System AB Not really. You want GhostPCL for that. --- This SF.net

[iText-questions] doing "mail merge" uses lots of memory

2004-10-20 Thread Ross Presser
I am using iText.net (in VB.NET) to do a "mail merge" type of application. The output is a two-sided 4-color postcard with an address on the back side, and the address database has about 9950 records. The code I use is based on the PdfReader example from the tutorial, and looks mostly like what ap

[iText-questions] Re: doing "mail merge" uses lots of memory

2004-10-22 Thread Ross Presser
Did anybody see my question below? Is there a way to create a document with many many copies of an imported page without consuming huge amounts of memory or generating a huge pdf file? On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:56:21 -0400, Ross Presser wrote: > I am using iText.net (in VB.NET) to do a &q

[iText-questions] Re: Bug found in iTextDOTNet

2004-12-30 Thread Ross Presser
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:06:43 +0100, Leurs, Maarten (NL - Amstelveen) wrote: > Hi, > > First of all I want to tell you that I like iTextDOTNet very much, it is a > very usefull program. > I've just updated my version to your latest iTextDOTNet version 1.1.2-1. > After reading some documentation

[iText-questions] Possible to mix Spotcolors?

2005-01-24 Thread Ross Presser
I know it is possible to set the fillcolor to a specific mix of process colors: cb.setCMYKColorFill(0, 255, 0, 255); If I have two spot colors defined, is it possible to set the fill color to a combination of the both of them? So far all I've been able to do is set it to one spotcolor, do the tex

RE: [iText-questions] Possible to mix Spotcolors?

2005-01-25 Thread Ross Presser
--Original Message- > From: Leonard Rosenthol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:48 PM > To: Ross Presser; itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Possible to mix Spotcolors? > > > At 01:12 PM 1/24/2005, Ross Presser

[iText-questions] convert iText API documentation from javadoc to chm

2005-01-31 Thread Ross Presser
For what it's worth, I have converted the iText API documentation (downloaded from http://itext.sourceforge.net/downloads/docs.tar.gz) to a CHM file, using the "Javadoc To CHM" tool at http://www.burgaud.com/jd2chm.html. The result can be downloaded from http://member.newsguy.com/~rpresser/iText.ch

[iText-questions] Re: New release itext-paulo-152

2005-02-11 Thread Ross Presser
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:57:50 -, Paulo Soares wrote: > - PdfReader gets the number of pages from the pages and not from the > top > level page count. It also attempts to fix the doc if both values > disagree. "fix the doc"? You mean PdfReader might actually make changes to the file o

RE: [iText-questions] Re: New release itext-paulo-152

2005-02-11 Thread Ross Presser
ry 11, 2005 5:51 PM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net; Ross Presser > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Re: New release itext-paulo-152 > > > PdfReader fixes a lot of things in docs but only in memory. > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Ross Presser"

[iText-questions] Re: EPS as output format

2005-04-14 Thread Ross Presser
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:43:05 -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > At 07:16 AM 4/13/2005, Justin Lee wrote: >>How hard do you think it'd be to convert something pdf2ps (from the >>ghostscript package) to dump out the generated PDF as PS? > > Well, the obvious issue is that GS can only be cal

[iText-questions] Re: pdf to xml ???

2005-04-27 Thread Ross Presser
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:35:52 -0400, Rémi Guilbert wrote: > Hi, I saw the Chapter 7: XML and (X)HTML in your tutorial. I know that I can > convert a xml file to pdf file. But, I want to generate a xml file from a pdf > file, is it possible. > Thank's !! > Rémi Not with iText. But see the growin

[iText-questions] Re: PS type1 font with *.pfa file only

2005-07-07 Thread Ross Presser
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:23:18 +0100, Paulo Soares wrote: > You can use t1utils or multivalent. Or fontforge, which is lots better. :) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT.

[iText-questions] I textsharp 5.0.1.1 Headerfooter

2010-04-28 Thread Lynch, Ross
where of what's new in v5. Thanks in advance Ross -- This is a confidential communication and is intended only for the addressee indicated in the message (or duly authorised to be responsible for the delivery of the message to such person). You are specifically prohibited from copy

[iText-questions] Images causing background colours to change

2010-06-17 Thread Lynch, Ross
g has anyone else experience issues around this and have they found a soloution? Thanks Ross Lynch Retail IT Engineer, e-Business Team *Irish Life, Lower Abbey St, Dublin 1 *01 856 3080 @ ross.ly...@irishlife.ie P please don't print this e-mail unless

[iText-questions] Sprite images

2010-07-17 Thread Ross Lynch
Hi I've recently started working with Itext . I was looking to use sprite images I was wondering has anyone used sprites in their IText files. I tried looking for examples of sprite images in iText applications but couldn't find any. Any help would be greatly appreciated. T