Re: [iText-questions] acrofields count is 0

2014-10-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 10/8/2014 0:45 AM, tanshi...@sina.com wrote: Dear all, I have a problem with itext , when i open a pdf to get the fields with the code behind. AcroFields acroFields = pdf.AcroFields; but the returned acrofields is null. it worked fine in some pdf, but there was problem in some

Re: [iText-questions] [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: acrofields count is 0

2014-10-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 10/8/2014 10:32 AM, mkl wrote: So in essence you are saying the original poster's description of his observations is nonsense. When looking at the Subject line, not the content of the mail, I assume that the OP means to say that he can get the AcroFields (although he says it returns null),

Re: [iText-questions] Heartbleed Patch

2014-04-10 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 4/9/2014 2:08 PM, iText mailing list wrote: Public/private keys are also used in the context of SSL, but I fail to see why iText would be affected by an OpenSSL problem. Maybe you can explain, but I can't. In other words: the question should not be about iText. The question should be:

[iText-questions] Technical Conference North America - August 14-15 - Seattle

2013-07-02 Thread Bruno Lowagie
-2013/ best regards, Bruno Lowagie -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText

Re: [iText-questions] Correction

2013-05-26 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 25/05/2013 13:59, john renfrew wrote: Bruno The link to the example PDF on page http://itextpdf.com/examples/iia.php?id=263 should point to chapter 15 not http://examples.itextpdf.com/results/part4/chapter14/foobar.pdf OK, thanks! I've fixed this.

Re: [iText-questions] Itext 5.4.0 - Splitting pdf / UA

2013-03-01 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 28/02/2013 11:20, loic schreef: Thank you very much, my problem is solved thanks to your reply. :-) I don't agree. You may have the illusion that your problem is solved, but in reality you're probably doing it wrong. First I have try to use PdfCopy, but I got a nullPointerException when

Re: [iText-questions] iText signature bug - Non conformance to ISO 32000-1?

2012-12-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
regards, Bruno Lowagie CEO iText Software Group -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus

Re: [iText-questions] iText signature bug - Non conformance to ISO 32000-1?

2012-12-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 20/12/2012 11:03, Stefan Santesson wrote: I'll start saying Don't shoot the messenger:) I know. What saddens me is the misinformation in spite of our significant investment in providing good information :-( I'm just a consultant. I'm creating the business for you That's the general

Re: [iText-questions] Unknown ecnryption type R=6

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 8/11/2012 0:11, Leonard Rosenthol schreef: Actually, it just went back to being a CD:(. Not going to be a standard till probably early 2014 at the rate things are going:(. Oh boy, I hope you're being too pessimistic here. I've just done a what's new in PDF 2.0 talk at a conference. Maybe

Re: [iText-questions] Unknown ecnryption type R=6

2012-11-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 8/11/2012 15:45, Leonard Rosenthol schreef: I think you SHOULD join the committee - been telling you that for a while I joined the NBN and now I get plenty of mail regarding all kinds of ISO-standards. I've read PDF/UA, PDF/A-3 and I posted some comments to the NBN (they were forwarded to

Re: [iText-questions] Signing a PDF with itext using an ARX CoSign device

2012-11-06 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 6/11/2012 21:21, Andreas Kuehne schreef: @all: Would there be interest in an adapter for iText to access a DSS server doing the signature creation stuff remotely? Of course! I'm in München for the moment, presenting the current version of the white paper on digital signatures at W-JAX (at

Re: [iText-questions] [SPAM] Re: Sign existing XFA signature field

2012-10-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 26/10/2012 17:03, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: There is a LOT of mixing of terms and technologies in this thread. Let me see if I can clear a few things up. 1 -- XFA forms come in both dynamic and static flavors. Dynamic have ZERO AcroForms (or any other PDF content -- it's just XML),

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 8/10/2012 19:06, linuxunil schreef: I personally am against the monetization of the library and forum. You can not change the philosophy of a project like this. I agree. Documentation should be free. That's why I decided to write the new tutorials without a publisher. I also don't like the

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 9/10/2012 4:22, Gershkovich, Peter schreef: Do what you feel is right. I'm pleasantly surprised by the reactions on my rant. I've read some really good suggestions. -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 8/10/2012 17:48, Alex Jones schreef: a traditional forum A traditional forum involves more administrative work than a mailing list. The mailing list: I need to look at the mails that are put on hold, and then filter those that are SPAM: see http://lowagie.com/itextml Most problematic are

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: AcroFields Help, dinamic width/Height for text fields

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 9/10/2012 8:35, Andrea Arcangeli schreef: Some suggestions? As suggested by many people in the thread My plan to shut down the mailing list, the best answer to this question is: please read the documentation. --

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 8/10/2012 17:02, McGee, Edwin F. Sr. schreef: I would agree with those wishing to keep the mailing list open and selectively responding/posting the questions which meet mailing list criteria. I see many +1's for answers in favor of keeping the mailing list. I'm an autist, and one of my

Re: [iText-questions] iText-questions] failure in verify signature using SignWithBC

2012-10-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 9/10/2012 14:45, Massa Alfonso schreef: Can you consider my code a valid fix? At first sight, it looks like a great patch. I'm at the film festival for the moment. I'll ask Paulo to have a closer look at it. Thanks! Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 6/10/2012 23:00, Alekz ! wrote: My only advise is: Don't let a bunch of lazy/ignorants ruin your day. That's easier said than done ;-) Maybe letting a colleague answer them is a better choice. We started doing this. As the company grows, I'm hiring more people.

Re: [iText-questions] [SPAM] Re: My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 6/10/2012 19:38, mkl wrote: I'm afraid such a step could give rise to a larger spreading of code snipplets using iText in a wrong way. You know how often people used to come here and ask questions along the lines of I found this code at {some obscure web site} and it doesn't work. Do help

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 7/10/2012 1:58, Kevin Day wrote: Maybe when people find bugs or enhancement requests we start to really encourage them to create tickets? I don't really like the ticketing system on SourceForge. I don't like the SourceForge upgrade in general. For paying customers, we use JIRA as ticketing

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 7/10/2012 10:46, WMJ wrote: Will the gate to contribution remain open when the support is switched to StackOverflow? Contributions by customers are done through JIRA. Contributions by users are always discussed publicly first, it doesn't really matter where they are discussed. Code is

Re: [iText-questions] [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: Verify digital signature pdf example

2012-09-05 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 5/09/2012 11:20, Danilo Nicolò schreef: I saw the examples. Can you get me iText Library's link, version 5.0.7 ? Either you try to find that old version and lose plenty of time in the future; or you wait for the last part of the white paper to be written in which case you lose only a couple

Re: [iText-questions] PHP port in the works

2012-08-02 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 2/08/2012 14:01, wouter adem schreef: Hi Bruno, it's been a while since I wrote my original post. As I understood you and Dries have had a talk about possible future plans concerning Drupal and iText. I'm really interested in what has been said in that talk. If possible and ready, could

[iText-questions] iText 5.3.0

2012-06-20 Thread Bruno Lowagie
about the latest release visit: http://lowagie.com/itext530 http://itextpdf.com/history/?branch=53node=530 best regards, Bruno Lowagie -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways

Re: [iText-questions] PHP port in the works

2012-06-01 Thread Bruno Lowagie
products as feature-rich as iText that are written in PHP. I'll keep you posted about what Dries and I discussed. best regards, Bruno Lowagie Op 1/06/2012 10:02, wouter adem schreef: Hi, following the iText Summit 2012, and the way iText is heading, I really do believe in iText's business story

Re: [iText-questions] Could not watermark some of the scanned PDF document

2012-05-28 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 28/05/2012 17:50, Susheela Sundar wrote: I am trying to watermak a document with multiple lines. Hi Susheela, I hope the previous answer from 1T3XT helped you solve the problem. We get similar questions on a regular basis, and in most of the cases the problem is caused by not taking into

[iText-questions] iText Summit, March 29th 2012

2012-05-03 Thread Bruno Lowagie
For those who couldn't make it to the iText Summit on March 29th, this is what you missed: http://zntr.cc/9ccGCI -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and

[iText-questions] iText Summit, March 29th

2012-03-30 Thread Bruno Lowagie
For those who missed the iText summit, the slides are available online: http://lowagie.com/summit2012slides In the next few days, we'll share some photos of the speakers and the audience. We've also recorded all the talks on video, we'll also publish them in the near future.

Re: [iText-questions] Preserving bookmarks/links in existing PDF using ITextshap 4.1.6.0

2012-03-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Can you post this to the mailing list instead of to the admin? On Mar 15, 2012 2:25 PM, prashant Patil prashan...@ext.icicibank.com wrote: ** Dear Admin, I am developing an exe in *.NET 2.0* for splitting and merging PDF files using itextsharp (version *4.1.6.0*). The logic built is, the

[iText-questions] iText 5.2.0 - XML Worker 1.1.2

2012-02-29 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, this morning I released iText 5.2.0 and XML Worker 1.1.2. As usual, the changelog was published on itextpdf.com: http://itextpdf.com/history/?branch=52node=520 For a more human-readible form, please consult lowagie.com: http://lowagie.com/itext520 best regards, Bruno Lowagie

[iText-questions] Upcoming book on PDF

2012-02-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 15/02/2012 16:47, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: Here is something I wrote for my upcoming book on PDF Aha, that's interesting news! I'll be watching the list for news about this! -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using

[iText-questions] [ANN:] iText Summit 2012

2012-02-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, the registrations for the iText Summit 2012 are now open: http://itextpdf.com/summit.php The ideal way to get an update on what's new in iText, and to meet some of the people who are active on this mailing-list. best regards, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] New Book about PDF

2011-12-21 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 21/12/2011 17:12, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: Please DO NOT purchase this book!! OK, I'm removing the links from the iText site. We could use a good book that introduces the PDF specs though. best regards, Bruno -- Write

Re: [iText-questions] iTextSharp 5.1.3 and XMLWorker 1.1.1 (.NET) released

2011-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 7/12/2011 9:25, mkl schreef: Well, of course, I'll confirm that, but would your customer be impressed by my word?;) My idea of respect is that you should always tell the truth (and apologize if you made a mistake, because I make mistakes too). Some people don't agree: they won't take no

Re: [iText-questions] Support for big PDFs over 2G

2011-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 7/12/2011 1:02, Leonard Rosenthol schreef: GREAT WORK! Yes, thank you! Seems like I shouldn't wait too long to release iText 5.1.4... Maybe I can schedule it during the Christmas holidays. -- Cloud Services Checklist:

Re: [iText-questions] Report code 4000 saying Unrecognized PDF content...

2011-12-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 7/12/2011 10:45, mkl schreef: after a small change of your naked.pdf, I could sign it without that ugly warning: I added an empty Resources dictionary: Great! But the problem remains for naked_acrobat.pdf, which is created using Acrobat and which has Resources dictionaries (even an empty one

[iText-questions] iText in Silicon Valley: who to meet?

2011-12-06 Thread Bruno Lowagie
, we'll try to schedule a meeting. best regards, Bruno Lowagie iText Software -- Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point

[iText-questions] iText 5.1.3 - XML Worker 1.1.1

2011-11-11 Thread Bruno Lowagie
iText 5.1.3 and XML Worker 1.1.1 have been released. Read all about it on our blog: http://lowagie.com/itext513 Or check the changelog: http://itextpdf.com/history/?branch=51node=513 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by

Re: [iText-questions] Question about iText PDF and RTF.

2011-09-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 8/09/2011 9:58, Horst Wetzel wrote: Me Myself and Istargate7thsymbolat live.co.uk writes: old RTF implementation questions. Hello Horst, I didn't see any new info in your answer to Zachary's question. Zachary (aka Me, Myself and I) makes two assumptions that are wrong: - itext

[iText-questions] [ANN] iText 5.1.2 + XML Worker 1.1.0

2011-08-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, iText 5.1.2 and XML Worker 1.1.0 have been released. For the complete change log, see http://itextpdf.com/history/?branch=51node=512 For download URLs, see http://itextpdf.com/download.php iText 5.1.2: In this release, we've added functionality that allows you to completely remove

Re: [iText-questions] Error message

2011-08-10 Thread Bruno Lowagie
itextsharp. Also you should decide if you really want iTextSharp-5.0.6, why wouldn't you use 5.1.0 or 5.1.1? All these versions are available from the above URL. best regards, Bruno Lowagie -- uberSVN's rich system

Re: [iText-questions] itext5 licensing

2011-05-28 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 28/05/2011 9:56, jonathan MERCIER wrote: Dear all, Fedora packagers have one big problem. The code is licensing on AGPL for all this project? Yes, we've been working with Fedore packagers in the past to resolve different issues. What is the problem now? Please contact consultancy at

[iText-questions] Convert HTML to PDF

2011-04-26 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, we've received many questions about HTMLWorker in the past. Today we're announcing the new XMLWorker that will be available in the next release. Read http://lowagie.com/xmlworker for more info. Use the online demo to test its functionality and give us feedback so that we can improve

Re: [iText-questions] suggestion about Paragraph and Phrase

2011-02-12 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 11/02/2011 18:05, Michael Niedermair schreef: Hi Bruno, I have a suggestion about Paragraph and Phrase. It were nice, if a new Constructor exists, which set the init size of the ArrayList. This is a suggestion that should be posted to the mailing list. Personally, I don't see the value

Re: [iText-questions] com.lowagie VS com.itextpdf

2011-01-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 13/01/2011 18:34, liliya woland schreef: Hello all, I'm helping someone to get pdfs created with itext and we're having the following issue. We downloaded iText-5.0.5 jar file. In December 2009, we jumped from iText 2.1.7 to iText 5.0.0. Why did we skip version numbers 3 and 4? - To sync

Re: [iText-questions] Adding a footer to a PDF file

2010-11-17 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 17/11/2010 21:12, sanderson2 wrote: Hi: Well, I found some references and wrote some code. My only dilemma is, I cannot see the text string anywhere in my PDF. Do I need something special to be able to add this. Right now, I am referencing an existing PDF and creating a new one. Do I

Re: [iText-questions] [Book] iText in Action, 2nd Edition

2010-11-05 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 5/11/2010 0:27, Philip Chan wrote: I have an O’Reilly Safari Online account and at the moment only the 1^st edition of the book is available. Can someone tell me when, if at all, will the 2^nd edition of the book be available from O’Reilly Sarfari Online? Thanks. I'm surprised to hear that

Re: [iText-questions] [Book] iText in Action, 2nd Edition

2010-11-05 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 5/11/2010 0:27, Philip Chan wrote: I have an O’Reilly Safari Online account and at the moment only the 1^st edition of the book is available. Can someone tell me when, if at all, will the 2^nd edition of the book be available from O’Reilly Sarfari Online? Thanks. FYI, this is the answer I

Re: [iText-questions] Add a blank page in the end of merged PDF Files

2010-11-04 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 4/11/2010 9:50, cosette wrote: Hi I've merged couple of pdf's into one pdf but the issue is that when I want to print so i want each pdf file that i merge start en new page. For example : I have Pdf a , Pdf b, and Pdf c all are in one pdf called PdfAbc. In the file of PdfAbc I want to

Re: [iText-questions] Images with i text

2010-11-04 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 4/11/2010 12:55, Joe Simas wrote: I have a ASP script that pulls images from a url path from the SQL server and places the images on a page, They consisantly change. how do I get itext to recoginise the image as a url path ? instead of a server.mappath so it pulls the image into the PDF ???

[iText-questions] Fwd: Book Promo: iText in Action

2010-11-02 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Original Message Subject:Book Promo: iText in Action Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 19:21:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Java Ranch Moose mmo...@javaranch.com To: Java Ranch Moose mmo...@javaranch.com We are thrilled to have Bruno Lowagie on the ranch to promote the book iText

[iText-questions] Maintenance release iText

2010-11-02 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello, I've just made a maintenance release for iText: iText 5.0.5. For an overview of the changes, see: http://itextpdf.com/history/?branch=50node=505 A new iTextSharp release is in the making. Starting tomorrow, I'll go through the suggestions and bugs reported on SourceForge. best regards,

Re: [iText-questions] iText in Action, Second Edition

2010-10-24 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 24/10/2010 2:42, Keith O wrote: received an email from manning this morning, the ebook is finished! congratulations and thanks to Bruno for all the hard work on the book! Thanks! Let's hope the paper version arrives in Europe in time for Devoxx. I'll do a signing session on Wednesday

Re: [iText-questions] Composing a monthly/welcome message for iText-Questions.

2010-10-19 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 19/10/2010 5:29, Keith O wrote: Hi Mark, THANK YOU for following up on this issue! Thanks! I'll work on this after the film festival. I'll also open up the forum for a selected group of mailing list members, and I plan to copy the FAQ entries of the book into the forum. best regards,

Re: [iText-questions] Merging multiple pdfs

2010-10-10 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 10/10/2010 1:44, karthick schreef: I tried to attach document at the end of existing document. It automatically adds page numbers even if the attached document does or does not have page numbers. That's not possible unless you've written code that adds page numbers. But, it overwrites

Re: [iText-questions] About this mailing list

2010-10-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 9/10/2010 0:02, Mark Storer wrote: Bruno? Your thoughts? I can't deny that the mailing list has its use, because challenging questions in the past have helped us: - fix bugs - add new features - write examples for the book. The reason why we can answer many questions with read page X of the

Re: [iText-questions] FW: About this mailing list

2010-10-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 9/10/2010 11:47, John Renfrew wrote: An archive part of a forum would be good as there is no way to check the answers you have already a patiently given, Correct. In theory, the archives are searchable. In practice, searching the archives is a pain. Even when I know what I'm looking for

[iText-questions] About this mailing list

2010-10-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
*Did you read the documentation before firing away a question?* *Did you make a standalone example that reproduces the problem?* *Did you browse the archives to see if the problem was already solved?* Hello all, this mailing list has been useful for many iText developers, but recently I'm

Re: [iText-questions] About this mailing list

2010-10-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 8/10/2010 13:59, djdjdj wrote: I'm sure there are a lot of people using this library who are running into similar incidents while programming that just need basic direction in figuring out if what they desire to do is even possible. To that end, the mailing list is a good tool. I agree

[iText-questions] Emptying a signature field

2010-10-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 8/10/2010 14:43, djdjdj wrote: For me, there is a bit of a disconnect to that logic. For example, if I'm creating a web form and want to clear the value of a field in a web form I certainly wouldn't delete the field and recreate it but would instead set the value to an empty string. That

Re: [iText-questions] Problem printing page specific conditional text to a footer.

2010-09-28 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 27/09/2010 18:09, Karen Lima wrote: I was curious, when is the final version of the second edition of iText in Action book going to be available ? I finished reading the first pages in the weekend. First pages is the first version from the typesetter and I had to read it to detect errors.

Re: [iText-questions] v2.x continuity

2010-09-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 23/09/2010 19:37, Ricardo Andre Redder Junior wrote: I believe most of my questions are answered now... as I can see, whether creating a fork is legal or not, it's very clear that if one decides to create a fork, and keep working on the MPL version, will face an endless legal battle, for

Re: [iText-questions] v2.x continuity

2010-09-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 23/09/2010 20:42, Ricardo Andre Redder Junior wrote: Bruno, I'm not yelling Fork! I just wanted to understand more the context... I know, but I've had my fair share of those people. usually a system is composed of dozens of dependencies, if every responsible for every dependency decides

Re: [iText-questions] v2.x continuity

2010-09-22 Thread Bruno Lowagie
needs such a person. Also: if the life of v2.x.y is extended, then be very, very careful: the package names are com.lowagie and that's MY name. I am Bruno Lowagie, and although there's the MPL/LGPL, I WILL DEFEND MY NAME

Re: [iText-questions] New iText site

2010-09-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 8/09/2010 17:12, John Renfrew wrote: Great piece of work to all those who have taken the time to do it. The design was made by Namahn: http://www.namahn.com/ but I did the technical implementation (the php code and the content). It was a huge effort, especially adding keywords to every

[iText-questions] New iText site

2010-09-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, short message to inform you that the iText site has been completely redesigned. There's still plenty of work to do, but special attention was given to the book pages: http://itextpdf.com/book/ For each chapter, you can now get a short summary, an overview of the illustrations, and a

Re: [iText-questions] New iText site

2010-09-07 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 7/09/2010 11:56, Alexis Pigeon wrote: However, I would find it even more awesomer if you would consider increasing the font of the main text by one or two units, for readability's sake. OK, done. (You may need to hit the Refresh button to reload the CSS.) best regards, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] Acrobat Reader Hangs - iText 1.5.2 - more

2010-09-04 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 3/09/2010 15:23, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: As I wrote to you before, the page content stream on page 4 of that sample you previous posted in BROKEN! OK, I overlooked your previous mail. I see that you found out that page 4 has an invalid content stream. What is wrong? What is missing? Is

[iText-questions] iText 5.0.4 - iTextSharp 5.0.4

2010-08-22 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, there has been a simultaneous release of iTextSharp and iText. iTextSharp jumps from version 5.0.2 to version 5.0.4. The iText release was made to stay in sync with the iTextSharp version numbers. iTextSharp users who want to know what was new in iText 5.0.3, see:

Re: [iText-questions] (no subject)

2010-08-14 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Florin Zoe wrote: SOME SPAM Although I'm not sure if Florin Zoe was the author of the SPAM that was sent to the list, I've removed his address from the subscribers to prevent further undesired messages. As for the original question: Have you thought about a beginners guide / doc For

[iText-questions] Release iText 5.0.3

2010-07-22 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, as you know you can find all the examples that are discussed in the second edition of iText in Action here: http://itextpdf.com/examples/index.php?page=chapters Some of these examples didn't work with iText 5.0.2 because iText 5.0.2 dates from before the final chapter of the book

Re: [iText-questions] '' not expected at file pointer 558

2010-07-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Andreas Ebbert-Karroum wrote: Good Morning, Am 12.07.2010 19:53, schrieb 1T3XT info: Certainly! Thanks for the patch. I'll try having a look at it tomorrow. Ok, will you let me know, if you found it useful? This solves a problem caused by extra information that is added after the

[iText-questions] Looking for a Technical Proofreader

2010-06-23 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello, Manning is looking for a technical proof reader for iText in Action 2E. That is: read the book to find out if there are technical errors, for instance the page X of Y error mentioned on the list last week. You'd also have to compile and try ALL the examples that come with the book.

Re: [iText-questions] [off-topic] iText in California

2010-06-17 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Daniel Essin wrote: northern or southern? The plan is to fly to San Francisco. Spend some days there. Do some business in Palo Alto. Then drive from SF to LA in two days (spending the night somewhere in between). Spend one or two days in LA, then fly back to Europe from LA. That's the plan for

[iText-questions] [off-topic] iText in California

2010-06-16 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello, a short personal message to iText developers in California: Next month, I'll probably visiting California with my wife and kids. I don't have an exact timing yet (end of July is the most accurate estimate for now). Are there people, places, things I should visit? It's probably best to

Re: [iText-questions] Getting a PdfTemplate from a PdfReader

2010-05-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Thomas Hauk wrote: I had a single huge method generating these PDFs and it was working fine. However, I decided to refactor the 200+ line function into multiple functions, and now I've hit a compile error in my (refactored) method that should return a PdfTemplate, because it requires

Re: [iText-questions] PdfCopy ignores manipulations on directContent

2010-05-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
E Plischke wrote: Hi, following instruction has no effect: [CODE] pdfCopy.getDirectContent().addTemplate( pdfCopy.getImportedPage(pdfReader, 1), tagetAffineTransform ); [/CODE] is this a bug or do I miss something? That's not a bug. As documented in

Re: [iText-questions] iText-questions post from eplisc...@googlemail.com requires approval

2010-05-27 Thread Bruno Lowagie
itext-questions-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: Why I have to rotate and rescale is, because some pages of a source document have to be converted from A4 to A5 and put in one page (2in1), while others shall remain untouched. Maybe there is already a helper which does this task but I've

Re: [iText-questions] No RTF Support?

2010-05-25 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Jack wrote: Someone wrote back that I wouldn't get any support on RTF on this list. That's correct. However, isn't the API the same for the version 2.1.7 except for a few minor differences? You won't get any support for version 2.1.7 on this free mailing list either. Only the most recent

Re: [iText-questions] iText-questions Digest, Vol 48, Issue 80

2010-05-25 Thread Bruno Lowagie
On 05/25/2010 05:34 PM, Jack wrote: Bruno, Have you noticed that there are no RTF files at this sourceforge site? http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextrtf/files/ (At least I don't see any when I click All Files) ??? That's correct. The source code is only available through the SVN

Re: [iText-questions] [Book]

2010-05-21 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Zhang, Michelle Y wrote: Dear Bruno, I have some questions about the IText in Action Version 2. 1. I used to read the free iTextSharp tutorial online and now it's gone. Will all contents in the tutorial be included in the iText in Action? That tutorial was hopelessly outdated. The

Re: [iText-questions] some questions

2010-05-16 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Michael Olenick wrote: Dear Bruno -- We're too lazy to learn how to use iText and believe that your time is less valuable than ours. We therefore would like you to do our work for us. That is sometimes the case, but the mail I forwarded is from somebody who is reviewing the manuscript of the

Re: [iText-questions] some questions

2010-05-15 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello, I have very little time currently, and you've mailed me a long list of questions. I'm forwarding this list to the mailing list so that other people can answer if they have more time for the moment. Michael Niedermair wrote: Hi Bruno, I have some questions: 1) How can I activate a

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-05-11 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Original-Nachricht Datum: Fri, 7 May 2010 14:19:41 +0200 Von: TvT tvtre...@nepatec.de An: Post all your questions about iText here itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License Just read the whole thread

Re: [iText-questions] how to detect remote links in a PDF ?

2010-05-11 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Leonard Rosenthol wrote: PDF is a fully open standard. ANYONE can contribute. We WELCOME participation. I'm interested! I'm going to the Adobe Pulse next week: http://events.adobe.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi?country=ukeventid=9660venueid=9813 Is there somebody I can talk to about this? best

Re: [iText-questions] Ploblem with superscript and subscript

2010-05-06 Thread Bruno Lowagie
dorairaj wrote: It is not like that, we are exploring different possibilites before deciding on particular approach. As we were able to get Superscript and Subscript with textlayout but issue is with print quality. So either we require support for any of the one(PdfGraphics2D or TextLayout

Re: [iText-questions] Examples in new book

2010-05-04 Thread Bruno Lowagie
John Renfrew wrote: Found the following on geekcredential dot wordpress dot com Groovy thinks '/0' is a GString so need to be explicit and force it to character i.e. '/0'.toCharacter().charValue() And now that I think about it, I think using '0' would also work. Can somebody

Re: [iText-questions] Examples in new book

2010-05-02 Thread Bruno Lowagie
John Renfrew wrote: I am slowly working through the examples in the new book in my context which is Groovy from inside Filemaker – and it is a much clearer piece of writing.. Thank you. Thanks, I decided to rewrite the second edition from scratch, based on my experience teaching iText. The

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-25 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Cameron Laird wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:45 PM, David Hoffer dhoff...@gmail.com mailto:dhoff...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, I feel your pain, I am in similar situation. The commercial side of the licensing is geared for very big projects only, nothing small. I

Re: [iText-questions] bad examples iText in Action 2nd Edition

2010-04-25 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Jason Berk wrote: FYI: Listing 2.3: DirectorPhrases1.java public static final Font BOLD_UNDERLINED = new Font(Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 12, Font.BOLD | Font.UNDERLINE); ...does not compile You're correct. The example that can be downloaded passes the test, because it uses

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-25 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Michael Schmodt wrote: P.S. I can post the mail from the sales department with the licensing details, if you want. The prices are not my idea, but I received the list from itextsoftware.com http://itextsoftware.com. I think you should post this to sa...@itextpdf.com because I think you are

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-25 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Michael Schmodt wrote: I am programming as a freelancer for customers who pay me and the 5000 $ is the wage for the whole project that take about one month. In that case, you are building tailor made solutions for customer. That's not the same as building a commercial product. You should ask

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-25 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Michael Olenick wrote: Bruno should not have to deal with either. Thanks for yet another insightful contribution to the mailing list. As I explained in my previous mail, my main focus right now is the book, but this thread is bookmarked for when I have the time to talk to the sales people about

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-25 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Michael Schmodt wrote: I hope, I didn't upset you. This is not what I want. As I said, I like iText very much and would like to use it in the future. I respect your decission to change the license and to get a share from the profits of those, who use your lib. Try to see this debate as a

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-22 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Michael Olenick wrote: If you're making money from iText -- with making money being defined as somebody is paying you -- you should pay for it. There's a lot of hard work that went into the creation and support of this awesome tool. Thanks! best regards, Bruno

[iText-questions] iText 5.0.2 is online

2010-04-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Hello all, I'm revising the final manuscript of iText in Action - 2nd Edition. Normally, the final review by external reviewers should start next week. The examples that come with the book contain new functionality, so it was time to make a new release: iText 5.0.2. Chapter 15 of the book has

Re: [iText-questions] [MAVEN] iText 5.0.2 is online

2010-04-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Bruno Lowagie wrote: You can read more about this release here: http://itextpdf.com/history.php?branch=history.50node=502 You can download the new release from SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/files/ I forgot to add this URL: http://maven.itextpdf.org/ That's where you can

Re: [iText-questions] itext/rtf question

2010-04-13 Thread Bruno Lowagie
X wrote: Is the iText/rtf solution being maintained ? No, the original creators of the RTF package have their hands full with their paid jobs. Is there any future enhancement in the works ? No, we did a survey among paying customers and nobody used the RTF package. As no money is made by the

Re: [iText-questions] HELP NEEDED: PDF V9.x Dynamic Form

2010-04-12 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Miller, Billy C CTR USAF AFSOC 623 AOC/CSDI wrote: Please assist... I tried purchasing the book... getting the following error... Site error: the file /affiliate/idevaffiliate.php requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_fre_4.3.so to be installed by the site administrator I thought I

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