Questions tagged [pdf-writer]
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System.UnauthorizedAccessException Access to the path is denied
At attempt to write PDF document with following code:
document = new Document();
PdfWriter writer = null; ;
try
{
writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(@"E:\mergFiles", FileMode.Create));
}
catch (Exception xc)
{ }
I am…

yogesh lawate
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pdf-writer invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) expecting keyword_end content = "%PDF-#{@version}\n%âãÏÓ\n" Rails 3
I have a problem with the pdf-writer gem on a collaborative project I'm trying to run, I'm using RVM, Ruby 1.9.2p180, Rails 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 10.10.
I created a new gemset to install the required gems with Bundler, but when I try to run the app I get…

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How to add a pdf page to the existing pdf at a desired position instead of adding at the top?
I am using this code to merge a pdf file to the start of pdf but want to set it to the 2nd page of existing pdf.
How do I do that ? How to go with this?
I have spent days on it but no luck.
public static string MergeFiles(string destinationFile,…

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(Python) Change pagesize and format of PDF file generated with xtopdf
I want to convert an xlsx with Python. I used the modules tablib and xtopdf to build a well structured table. Works excellent! Unfortunately the content does not fit on one pdf page. So I wanted to change the pagesize and format to horizontal A3.…

Felix
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Rotating PDF using Javascript
I am looking for a solution where i can use java-script to rotate an existing PDF. I tried many things but could not find anything.
i am not sure if PDF.JS or jsPDF.js can help me, i tried to figure out but was not very successful.
But doing the…

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ERROR -12 closing pdfwrite device in ghost script
In our module we are using the ghost script to compress PDF of higher size to lower size use the command
gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4
-sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
while converting this we are getting an…

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iTextSharp PdfWriter Rotating page layout when it shouldnt be
I have a program that takes a pdf and prints text onto the first page using Itextsharp and PdfWriter. Currently this has been working as intended for each pdf that that I had to input text on. However, when the source pdf's layout is landscape, the…

Ben
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how to set color in ruby pdf-writer
I'm using pdf-writer gem in ruby.
While drawing a table, i need to set the shade_color and shade_color2 of table so that the rows get the alternate shade and shade2 colors.
Can anyone tell me how to set them?
Like table.shade2 =…

Satya Kalluri
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How to reduce memory consumption of PdfPTable with many cells
I'm creating a PDF using ITextSharp which is composed of a single PdfTable. Unfortunately for a particular data set, I'm getting an Out of memory Exception due to the large number PdfPCells that are created (I've profiled the memory usage - I've…

Tom Carter
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I can't add the ₺ (Turkish Lira) icon to the file with Java PDFWriter
BaseFont bfSpecial = BaseFont.createFont("get_font/verdana.ttf",BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font my_font = new Font(bfSpecial, 9, Font.BOLD, BaseColor.BLACK);
document.add(new Paragraph("\n",my_font));
document.add(new…

Mustafa IŞIK
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Justify a Document object using itext pdf
I've added Chunks in a Document object
Document document = new Document();
document.add(new Chunk("This is a text"));
document.add(new Chunk("This is another text"));
document.close();
I tried to use the setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED)…

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.net PDF writer/creator
I have a need to create PDFs from HTML content with specific layouts. I have looked around quite a bit and the only options I could come up with worth any repute are SuperWebGoo and PDFSharp. PDFSharp hasn't been updated in 2 years whereas…

Gabbar
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Copying annotations with PdfWriter instead of PdfCopy
I need to copy annotations using PdfWriter instead of PdfCopy because at the time of the copy I need to resize/rotate the page. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

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iTextSharp : Cannot attach PageEvent on a PdfSmartCopy writer
This code using ItextSharp 5.5.10:
var msOutput = new MemoryStream();
var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 0, 0, 0, 20);
var writer = new PdfSmartCopy(document, msOutput);
writer.PageEvent = new MyHeaderFooterEvents();
Throws "Operation is…

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Is it possible to access PdfWriter or PdfContentByte when given iTextSharp.text.Document alone?
My question is exactly as the title says.
The reason I ask this question is that I need to workaround a wrong design. Simply speaking, my task is to implement the body of a callback function. The callback function receives a single argument of…

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