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How to create a PDF with font information and embed the actual font while merging the files into a single PDF?

merge these PDFs into a single document, I want to insert actual font needed by the PDF. Posted on StackOverflow on Feb 24, 2014

Fonts and merging documents

This example was written in answer to the question Click How to create a PDF with font information and embed the actual font

Why is my font not applied when I create a PDF document?

I am generating PDF documents with iText. When I try to include the "Agenda Tabular Light" font, iText ignores my choice

How to create a TOC when merging documents?

merging documents? if you want to see how to answer this question in iText 5. merge_documents toc table_of_contents concatenate

How to merge documents correctly?

the following problem when printing the PDF file after merge, the PDF documents get cut off. Sometimes this happens because the documents

pdfHTML: Creation and/or merging of outlines for documents

With pdfHTML 3.0.0 (released with iText Core 7.1.11) we improved the creation and/or merging of document outlines. Details

Merging documents and create a Table of Contents

These examples were written in answer to questions such as: Click How to create a TOC when merging documents? Click How

Merging documents with bookmarks

here is a direct port from the iText5 code. Merging documents while maintaining bookmarks in iText7 is done automatically when

.Merging documents with bookmarks vLatest

here is a direct port from the iText5 code. Merging documents while maintaining bookmarks in iText7 is done automatically when

Chapter 7: Creating PDF/UA and PDF/A documents

a title to the metadata of the document (line 8-9). All fonts need to be embedded (line 11). There are some other requirements

.Merging documents and create a Table of Contents vLatest

These examples were written in answer to questions such as: Click How to create a TOC when merging documents? Click How

How not to merge documents

This is an example that is used by many people, but it is completely wrong: you should not use PdfWriter to merge documents

Do I need a license for Windows fonts when using iText?

that are proprietary in the sense that you can not redistribute them, but they allow you to embed the font in documents

Chapter 7: Creating PDF/UA and PDF/A documents | .NET

introduced a series of obligations and restrictions: The document needs to be self-contained: all fonts need to be embedded

How to use System Font in iTextSharp with VB.net?

Can someone help me with writing the code to use a system font? I'm using Itextsharp to convert text files to PDF documents

Font examples

a PDF document? How to create a PDF with font information and embed the actual font while merging the files into a single PDF? How

Why can't I set the font of a Phrase?

Why doesn't setting the font of a Phrase after the construction of the object work? I'm starting with iTextSharp and wondering

Why is iText embedding a font even when I specify not to embed?

Why does NOT_EMBEDDED option still embed the font ? I am using Noto fonts to create a PDF and evaluating embedding versus

How to merge forms from different files into one PDF?

to merge documents. The different scenarios are explained in the following video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YwDME0Fl1c.

How to use the font Verdana in PdfStamper?

Why doesn't exchanging the Part BaseFont.HELVETICA with "Verdana" work? I want to use Verdana as a font while stamping a PDF

How to embed a font only partially?

Is partial embedding automatic? I am asked to include partial font into a PDF. I think I will use iText and I found how

How to get a font from an array?

Is it possible to create a Font object from a byte array instead of using file paths? The FontFactory class has two methods

Chapter 6: Reusing existing PDF documents

, we'll merge these documents. Merging documents with PdfMerger Figure 6.7 shows a PDF that was created by merging the first 32-page

Chapter 6: Reusing existing PDF documents | .NET

" In the next couple of examples, we'll merge these documents. Merging documents with PdfMerger Figure 6.7 shows a PDF that was created

Chapter 1: Introducing fonts

to present the document. If a specific font can be found, another font will be used instead. Traditionally, there are 14 fonts

How can I load a font from /WEB-INF/resources/fonts/foobar.ttf?

. I get following exception: ExceptionConverter: java.io.IOException: /fonts/CALIBRI.TTF not found as file or resource. Caused

Why can't I embed a font due to licensing restrictions?

them, but they allow you to embed the font in documents. For instance: the fonts that ship with MS Windows are proprietary. You

Why does the function to concatenate / merge PDFs cause issues in some cases?

documents. You should not use PdfWriter to concatenate (or merge) PDF documents. That is wrong because: You completely ignore

What are the extra characters in the font name of my PDF?

Why does it happen only for a few PDF file? While extracting font name from PDF, I get some junk characters followed by plus

How to introduce a custom font weight in iText 7?

Is there a way to set font weight as a number? I can set bold font like this: iTextSharp.text.Font font_main = new

How to choose the optimal size for a font?

Given a certain available width, how do I define the font size for a snippet of text, so that it matches the available width

Why aren't my fonts getting registered?

I have 156 TTF files under my /usr/share/fonts directory tree. Why aren't these being registered? I have a program using

How does a PdfPCell's height relate to the font size?

In iText, what is the minimum height of a PdfPCell for which a given size of font text is visible? Is there any ratio between

How to use multiple fonts in a single cell?

different font sizes within the same cell? What I have: table.AddCell("Static headline" + Chunk.NEWLINE + richTextBox1.Text); What I

Chapter 6: Using fonts in pdfHTML

reader. The shall in that last sentence means that you don't have to embed these fonts when creating a PDF document, because you can

Why do I get a font embedding error when creating PDFA/1a?

, but it isn't. You can check this by using that font in any other PDF that isn't PDF/A: if you go to Document Properties > Fonts, you'll

pdfOptimizer: Support added for Font, Image, Color Space optimization

embedded subsets of font files within a PDF document. Font Subsetting Optimization: Allows the embedding of just the glyph data

How to check if a font is bold?

I have an application, that extracts headings out of pdf files. The documents that the application is supposed to work

How to print mathematical characters like ?, ?, ?, ?, ? ?, ??

) and many others. How can I add them to a PDF? This is my code : Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 60, 60, 60, 60); try

How to use Cyrillic characters in a PDF?

: var document = new Document(); document.Open(); Paragraph p1 = new Paragraph("Testing of letters ?,?,Š,Ž,?", new Font

Chapter 2: Adding content to a Canvas or a Document

at the Document level, such as the default alignment, the default hyphenation, or even the default font, wasn't possible in iText 5. You

How to restrict the number of characters on a single line?

. This will result in a very odd-looking document where each line has a different font size. This is the code to calculate the font size

Why isn't the Rupee symbol showing?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26360814/rupee-symbol-is-not-showing-in-android The problem you describe is typical when: you are usi

Release iText 7.0.3

inline element following the tab DEVSIX-1102 https://jira.itextsupport.com/browse/DEVSIX-1102: Merging a document with outlines

Chapter 5: Manipulating an existing PDF document | .NET

In the examples for chapter 1 to 3, we've always created a new PDF document from scratch with iText. In the last couple

How to use two different colors in a single String?

. String result = "Developed By : Mr.XXXXX"; I can create a paragraph in iText and set font with color like this: Font

Chapter 5: Manipulating an existing PDF document

In the examples for chapter 1 to 3, we've always created a new PDF document from scratch with iText. In the last couple

How to merge PDFs and add bookmarks?

I am merging multiple PDFs together into one PDF and I need to build bookmarks for the final PDF. For example, I have three

Release iText 7.1.7

Improve robustness with improperly created form fields Better support for multiple/different fonts kernel Improve the performance

Core SVG: Added support of font-relative units for the font-size property of a text element

In previous iText 7 Core versions, the font-size attribute in SVG’s text element was in some specific cases being calculated

Release iText 7.1.4

issues for the integration of SVG & styled-xml-parser in the core. Various SVG path parsing improvements. A font caching and a font

Why doesn't FontFactory.GetFont() work for all fonts?

actually load and register the font file and then get it like so: FontFactory.Register("C:\\Windows\\Fonts\\georgia.ttf", "Georgia

Release iText 7.1.0

https://jira.itextsupport.com/browse/DEVSIX-1468] - Create FontDescriptor for Type3 fonts and parse it when font is read from document [D

How to merge PDFs from ByteArrayOutputStreams?

I have two PDF files, each one in a ByteArrayOutputStream. I want to merge the two PDFs, and I want to use iText, but I don't

How to calculate/set font line distance?

font size. What should I use as XXX value in document.bottom() - XXX? Posted on StackOverflow on Sep 17, 2013

Release iText 7.0.5

handling of the free references [DEVSIX-1105 https://jira.itextsupport.com/browse/DEVSIX-1105] - Autoport. Fix issue with merge

Release iText 7.0.4

Float elements Add support for Web Open Font Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Open_Font_Format iText 7 Core 7.0.4 Bug

Manipulating existing PDFs

a page 90 degrees? How to update a PDF without creating a new PDF? How to create a TOC when merging documents? How to change

Release iText Core 7.1.13

Merging keeps OCG dictionary Handling of the PDF document with outlines which don't have correct Parent entry Bugs TrueTypeFont

iText Core: Support Type3 fonts reading for stamping mode

Background: Type3 fonts are user-defined fonts in which arbitrary characters are mapped to custom glyphs. For instance

.iText Core: Support Type 3 fonts reading for stamping mode vLatest

Background: Type 3 fonts are user-defined fonts in which arbitrary characters are mapped to custom glyphs. For instance

How to change the text color of an AcroForm field?

a container of an XML stream. There is hardly any PDF syntax in the document and there are no AcroForm fields. I don't think

Why can't I extract text added using a Type3 font correctly from a PDF?

I have PDF file in Arabic that has text with font Type3 when I extract text using PDFBox some characters are empty

How to parse multiple HTML files into one PDF?

pdf. If you have three single-page PDF document, PdfMerger can merge them into a single PDF with three pages, taking the pages

How to allow a Unicode subscript symbol in a PDF without using setTextRise()?

Is there a setting to change the encoding/font of the text to UTF-8, so that it allows all the Unicode symbols? I have been

How to make a single letter bold within a word?

(PdfFontFactory.createFont(FontConstants.HELVETICA)); } } Note that I used some constants: public static final Font RED_NORMAL = new

How to apply color to Strings in a Paragraph?

I want to have different font color and size for these Strings. How Can I do that on ColumnText/Paragraph? I am combining 2

Volume Counter FAQs

PdfDocument instance. Merging or splitting PDF documents will generate multiple events. For example, merging two separate documents

Creating and editing PDF 2.0 Documents

PDF 2.0 support to iText! This page details how to create a PDF 2.0 document using iText, and how to take advantage of the new

Unembed a font

How to unembed a font from a PDF unembedfont <div data-pym-src='https://itext.jdoodle.com/embed/itext' data-java-url

Advantages of using Blockchain for Signing PDF documents

Suppose that we don't store the signature of a document in the document itself, but instead store it in the blockchain

How can I use regular and bold in a single String?

a regular font within the text paragraph, while the constant part is bold? This is my code: String cc_cust_name = request.getParameter

Chapter 1: Introducing basic building blocks

PdfDocument(writer); Document document = new Document(pdf); // Create a PdfFont PdfFont font = PdfFontFactory.createFont

Blockchain for PDF Documents

a series of patents that describe mechanisms: to automate document workflow and version management, to ensure document integrity

How to display indian rupee symbol?

as encoding. When creating a Font object, you pass the rupee symbol as encoding. The correct way to achieve what you want in iText 7

Why do I get a message saying 1.not.found.as.a.resource?

What might cause new Font(Font.HELVETICA, 11f, Font.BOLD) or BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, 'Cp1252

Chapter 1: Introducing basic building blocks | .NET

(dest); var pdf = new PdfDocument(writer); var document = new Document(pdf); // Create a PdfFont var font

How to reuse a page from one PDF document into another PDF document?

Olarte https://stackoverflow.com/users/1030209/andres-olarte The most basic solution is to copy the pages from one pdf document

How can I generate a PDF/UA compatible PDF with iText?

. However, I have not been able to find a good example of how to generate a PDF/UA document. Can you provide an example? Posted

How to superimpose pages from existing documents into another document?

. I always add new pages to page 1 of the main document. If you want to add them to different pages, you need to create

Chapter 7: Handling events; setting viewer preferences and printer properties

and document assembly –that is: splitting and merging. Finally, we define the encryption algorithm: AES 256. The possible values

How to create a document with unequal page sizes?

); Rectangle two = new Rectangle(700,400); I am creating the PDF like this: Document document = new Document(); PdfWriter writer

What is the connection between LTV and document timestamps?

How do I make a PDF document LTV enabled without using timestamps? I have read the paper, discussions but there is one thing

How to add a cover page to an existing PDF document?

I need to add an existing cover page (a single-page PDF) to another existing PDF document. How can this be done? Posted

How to add text as a header or footer?

MyFooter extends PdfPageEventHelper { public void onEndPage(PdfWriter writer, Document document) { PdfContentByte cb

Release iText 7.1.2

https://jira.itextsupport.com/browse/DEVSIX-1869] - Investigate PDF becoming corrupted when merging documents totaling >4GB and fully com

Why does using ColumnText result in "The document has no pages" exception?

I want to use ColumnText to wrap text in a rectangle, but it tells me the document has no pages. I want to use ColumnText

How to format a String resulting in a two-column display?

manipulatePdf(String dest) throws Exception { PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document

How to add blank pages while concatenating several PDFs using PdfSmartCopy

(pdfDoc.getNumberOfPages() + 1, ps); pdfDoc.close(); There is no PdfCopy and PdfSmartCopy classes in iText 7 and merging documents is done

How to create Persian content in PDF?

. The solution is like this. document.add(new Paragraph("Unicode: \u0418", new Font(bfComic, 12))); I want to retrieve data from database

How can I log the number of documents / bytes I've processed?

I want to log the number of documents I've processed using iText, as well as the number of bytes I've read or produced

Chapter 3: Using renderers and event handlers | .NET

-c03e02_premierleague example looks pretty straight-forward too. Document document = new Document(pdf, ps); PdfFont font

How can I convert a CSV file to a table with a repeating header row?

in the beginning of every page) should be in a different font and color. Just to be clear, I know how to set the font style/size/color. I

pdfHTML: Using emojis in iText

for example): We need a font program that is able to draw these characters, as they are not included into the PDF document standard fonts

How to create a complex PDF document?

(dest))); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); PdfAcroForm form = PdfAcroForm.getAcroForm(pdfDoc, false); Map fields

Release iText Core 7.2.1

PubKeySecurityHandler output stream with DER encoding format OcgPropertiesCopier: StackOverflowError when merging documents with OCGs

Which languages are supported in pdfHTML?

is this possible? A glance at the Fonts tab in the Document Properties explains what happened

How to decrypt a PDF document with the owner password?

I need to remove the security/encryption from some PDF documents, preferably with the iText library. This used to be possible

Chapter 3: Generating PDF based on Media Queries

https://itextpdf.com/en/products/itext-7/pdfhtml did a great job converting the HTML to PDF: Figure 3.2: the SXSW HTML page as PDF docume

How to introduce superscript?

https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/develop/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/objects/OrdinalNumbers.java example. Here

How to add a rectangle to every page of a document?

Why does my code only add the rectangle on the last page? I'm using iText to create a PDF document. Right now I am trying

How to convert an existing A4 PDF document to an A3 booklet?

I want to convert an existing A4 PDF document into an A3 PDF using Java. Since I am new to the iText API, I wonder if anyone

How to get the rendered dimensions of text?

of a given width and height. That is, if I have to render the text "Today is a good day to die" in a specific font in a PdfPCell

Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document: Part 4

This example was written for the article "Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document

Why are PDF files different even if the content is the same?

documents that are generated sequentially may result in different tags for the same font subset. Another reason why two seemingly

Chapter 2: Defining styles with CSS

the document in a serif font. Historically, the default font used by iText has always been Helvetica, which is a sans-serif font

How to change the spacing between words and characters?

the result shown in figure 1. public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException, IOException { Document document

Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document: Part 1

This example was written for the article "Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document

Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document: Part 3

This example was written for the article "Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document

Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document: Part 5

This example was written for the article "Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document

iText 7: Converting HTML to PDF with pdfHTML

template defining the structure of the document, and some CSS defining the styles. They then populated the HTML with data

How to change the line spacing of text?

In my PDF the default space between the lines is slightly greater than I consider ideal. I'm creating a PDF document

Chapter 3: Using renderers and event handlers

In the first chapter of this tutorial, we created a Document with a certain page size and certain margins (defined explicitly

.How do I set parameters back to the default value? vLatest

I am using absolute positioning when writing text in a PDF document using iTextSharp. It only have a single BaseFont instance

How do I set parameters back to the default value?

I am using absolute positioning when writing text in a PDF document using iTextSharp. It only have a single BaseFont instance

Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document: Part 2

This example was written for the article "Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document

Chapter 4: Adding AbstractElement objects (part 1)

Document(pdf); PdfFont font = PdfFontFactory.createFont(FontConstants.TIMES_ROMAN); PdfFont bold = PdfFontFactory.createFont

How can I crop the pages of an existing PDF document?

I have an existing document of which the pages are too big. How can I crop the pages? Posted on StackOverflow on Apr 12, 2014

pdfCalligraph: Support wrapping at word boundaries for languages which don't use spaces for word separation

); //add paragraph to document and createFont with specified path to Thai font add Pdf Encodings doc.Add(paragraph.SetFont

Create booklet from A4 document

This example was written in response to questions such as: Click How to convert an existing A4 PDF document to an A3 booklet

Why are the AcroFields in my document empty?

annotations on the page level, but they aren't referenced in the /AcroForm fields set on the document root level. You can fix

Chapter 4: Creating reports using pdfHTML

HTML, To get information about fonts, colors, layout,... in the form of a CSS file, To get a single-page PDF document that can

Release iText 7.1.5

] : Don't trim text with length 1 in SVG. New features [DEVSIX-2469] : Support MMType1 font type as document font. [DEVSIX-1980

How to make a particular sub-string Bold when converting HTML to PDF?

this: public void createPdf(String file) throws IOException, DocumentException { // step 1 Document document = new Document(); // step

Release iText 7.1.9

table extraction strategies and the ability to seamlessly extract data from protected documents. Have fun!! Improvements Support

Release pdfHTML 3.0.3

, pdfHTML supports SVG images as direct input with the data:image/svg+xml notation. Besides this, font-relative units for the font-size

How to underline text with a dotted line?

I need to merge 2 paragraphs, the first is a sequence of dots, and the second is the text that I want write on dots: Paragraph

How to tile a document and add margins to the tiles?

I am tiling a document as is done in the TilingHero example. That works well, but now I'd also like to add margins to each

How to rotate a page while creating a PDF document?

document? if you want to see how to answer this question in iText 5. page_size page_rotation page_events landscape portrait

.Create booklet from A4 document vLatest

This example was written in response to questions such as: Click How to convert an existing A4 PDF document to an A3 booklet

Release pdfOptimizer 1.0.1

to remove unused symbols from the fonts embedded in PDF files, so the size of documents with small amounts of text can

How to watermark PDFs using text or images?

)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); int n = pdfDoc.getNumberOfPages(); PdfFont font = PdfFontFactory.createFont

What is causing syntax errors in a page created with iText 7?

The document prints fine, so why do I get an error? I am getting the following error when I want to print a PDF generated

Why is my PDF missing several characters?

In spite of the abundance of documentation on how to use font files, and how to create documents with text in different

Release iText 7.1.1

https://www.nuget.org/packages/itext7/7.1.1 Improvements in font handling: irregular Panose, encoding entries that are PDF Stream objects

When is the content flushed to a PDF File by iTextSharp?

in a PDF. It's just a sequence of lines, shapes and glyphs drawn on a page. When you add content to a document using the Add

pdfHTML: Support for overflow-wrap, word-break CSS Properties

, then provide an HTML code snippet, a Java/C# code sample, and an output PDF document for testing purposes. Feature demonstration

Does a PDF file have styles, headers and footers?

, but different fonts (for instance Helvetica is one font, Helvetica-Bold is another font of the same family). They don't have

Chapter 2: Adding low-level content

is that we no longer use a Document object. Just like in the previous chapter, we create a PdfWriter (line 2) and a PdfDocument

Chapter 2: Adding low-level content | .NET

that jumps out is that we no longer use a Document object. Just like in the previous chapter, we create an Stream (line 1

.Chapter 2: Adding low-level content | .NET vLatest

that jumps out is that we no longer use a Document object. Just like in the previous chapter, we create a Stream (line 1

How to fit a String inside a rectangle?

); cb.moveTo(0, 200); cb.lineTo(200, 200); cb.stroke(); // first define a standard font for our text Font helvetica8BoldBlue

How to add a page number in the header of a PDF/A Level A file?

tagged? I am trying to create a document that conforms with PDF/A-1 level A. As long as I don't introduce a header or a footer

Release iText 7.1.6

https://www.nuget.org/packages/itext7/7.1.6 kernel Improve text extraction with Type 3 fonts Improve ToUnicode for Type0 fonts without su

Scaling large HTML content to render onto smaller PDF page sizes

a PDF of a specific page size (such as A4 or Letter). You might also try fiddling with fonts or margin sizes, but this isn't always

Release pdfHTML 4.0.2

-formatted, well-structured PDF documents. The release of pdfHTML 4.0.2 brings a couple of nice bugfixes. In previous versions

How to add a table on a form (and maybe insert a new page)?

to the next page). I am able to do these things separately (populate the PDF and create a table). But I cannot effectively merge them

How to create a nested column?

(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc, PageSize.A4.rotate()); font = PdfFontFactory.createFont(FontConstants.HELVETICA

Release iText Core 7.1.15

our team: support forType3 fonts with non-standard glyph names. Please see the example linked below for more details. improved

pdfHTML: Support for generating cross references for TOC creation with target-counter, target-counters CSS properties

::before { content: target-counter(url('#id3'), page) ' '; } </style> </head> <body style="font-size: 30px; font-family: Arial

Chapter 3: Using ILeafElement implementations

Style at the end of chapter 1. We've discussed the RootElement subclasses Canvas and Document in the previous chapter. We'll deal

Using forms for reporting

How to merge forms from different files into one PDF? Click How to merge documents correctly? mergeforms <div data-pym-src

.Using forms for reporting vLatest

How to merge forms from different files into one PDF? Click How to merge documents correctly? mergeforms <div data-pym-src

PDF Portfolios

in different applications. For example, a PDF Portfolio can include text documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, CAD drawings

How to fill out a PDF file programmatically? (Dynamic XFA)

posted the question: I found the issue. The replacement DomDocument needs to be the entire merged XML of the new document, not just

Release iText 7.1.11

] Improve creation and(or) merging of outlines for documents created in pdfHTML [CORE & PDFHTML] Basic implementation of orphan

Building blocks : Examples

Chapter 1: Introducing fonts Chapter 2: Adding content to a Canvas or a Document Chapter 3: Using ILeafElement implementations

Which languages are supported in pdfOCR?

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata. If you require fonts to render advanced typography on a separate layer of your OCR document, p

Interactive forms

a check box is printed? Why are the AcroFields in my document empty? How to find the absolute position and dimension of a field

How to right-align text in a PdfPCell?

: PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); Table table = new Table(2

Release iText 7.1.3

, including images, fonts, and nested SVG documents. Improved support for groups and text elements. Support for the image element

Release iText Core 7.1.12

one Bugs Digital Signatures: annotation dictionary incorrectly updated when signing a pre-signed document Incorrect appearance

Release pdfOCR 1.0.2

improvements which allow you to process documents more precisely. These are: Refinement of the symbol position based on the HOCR data

How to create a pushbuttonfield with double byte character text?

short, but you probably have all the code you need, except the line that sets the font: public static final String FONT = "src

Release iText Core 7.2.0

: com.itextpdf.forms.xfdf.Encoding. Allow to close empty layout document without any exceptions. Logic has been added to add

Release iText 7.1.10

out PdfReader#SetMemorySavingMode(true)), more robust PDF update mechanisms, a better PDF/A document experience, some dependency

How to convert HTML containing Arabic/Hebrew characters to PDF?

, and Hebrew in this text. We'll use a different font file for each of these languages. public static final String[] FONTS = { "src/main

How to render certain HTML entities (such as arrows) to PDF?

https://stackoverflow.com/users/378386/aggsol When we discussed fonts in chapter 6

How to solve an UnsupportedCharsetException when using itext-asian.jar

create fonts like this: PdfFont font = PdfFontFactory.createFont("KozMinPro-Regular", "UniJIS-UCS2-H", false); If you want to use

How to solve an UnsupportedCharsetException when using itext-asian.jar?

have a font program named KozMinPro-Regular.otf, or you want to use the font KozMinPro-Regular. If you have a file named

Part IV - Appearances

a presentation of that signature in the document itself. This is even more true for documents with multiple signatures when

How can I find the maximum character limit for a text field?

1, you already know the available width: width. How many characters can fit this width depends on the font size

Tables and fonts

A couple of table examples. cellmethod <div data-pym-src='https://itext.jdoodle.com/embed/itext'

How do the measurement systems in HTML relate to the measurement system in PDF?

that: 1 in. = 25.4 mm = 72 user units. In the printing industry, the point is often used to express the size of a font

pdfHTML: Line Height property support

inline elements. Browsers use logic to calculate the maximum line height independent of the font, and the minimum value required

ColumnText and the font ascender

For more info about this example, read the answer to the question Click How to adapt the position of the first line in ColumnText?

.ColumnText and the font ascender vLatest

For more info about this example, read the answer to the question Click How to adapt the position of the first line in ColumnText?

Release iText Core 7.2.2

relating to CFF font parsing. As noted in the specification https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/font-tech-notes/pdfs/5176.CFF.pdf, CFF

iText 7.1 - Migration guide for Java

https://demo.itextsupport.com/license-key/. 3. Accessibility changes In order to create a PDF/UA document, you need to explicitly call #a

iText 7.1 - Migration guide for .NET

. Accessibility changes In order to create a PDF/UA document, you need to explicitly call #AddUAXmpMetadata for WriterProperties, otherwis

Creating a custom Type 3 font

logo <div data-pym-src='https://itext.jdoodle.com/embed/itext'

Reuse a font from an existing PDF

reusefont <div data-pym-src='https://itext.jdoodle.com/embed/itext'

Chapter 5: Custom tag workers and CSS appliers

with a link that isn't a link anymore This document looks exactly like the result we had in chapter 2, but when we try clicking

How to use a text extraction strategy after applying a location extraction strategy?

; PdfFont font = renderInfo.getFont(); if (null != font) { String fontName = font.getFontProgram().getFontNames().getFontName

Creating a simple PDF/UA document

This example was written in answer to the question How can I generate a PDF/UA compatible PDF with iText?

Release pdfCalligraph 2.0.9

one could occur when rendering a string for specific font sizes, where the anchor delta for the last glyph was calculated

How to strike through text using iText?

strike through a number using a setLineThrough() method: PdfFont font = PdfFontFactory.createFont(FontProgramFactory.createFont

How to get the page width and height of a PDF document?

I have a PDF, and I want to get the width and height of each page using iTextSharp. This is what I have so far: string

How to add a watermark to a page with an opaque image?

().newContentStreamBefore(), new PdfResources(), pdfDoc); PdfFont font = PdfFontFactory.createFont(FontProgramFactory.createFont

Release iText Core 7.1.14

which can be "tiled" to cover an area. In addition, we also added the support of font-relative units for SVG and fixed the stroke

pdfCalligraph: New types of GSOP lookup

and rendering in each script and language system that a font supports. To further expand its ability to support advanced glyph

Chapter 5: Adding AbstractElement objects (part 2)

)); Document document = new Document(pdf); Table table = new Table(new float[] {1, 1, 1}); table.addCell(new Cell(1, 3).add

Content parsing, extraction and redaction of text

What are the extra characters in the font name of my PDF? How to get the co-ordinates of an image? How to create and apply

Do we license per functionality /feature?

iText 7 Core includes about 500 functions which we license as a single SDK. This includes creation, merging, tagging, digital

How to calculate the height of an element?

above the baseline and the height below the baseline, when we use a font size of 12. As you probably know, the font size

Could not find a glyph corresponding to Unicode character

realm), so pdfOCR will warn you if it can't find a corresponding glyph. For such scenarios, you just need to specify a font file

Release pdfRender 1.0.4

, and revisions to the processing of Type1 fonts have reduced memory allocation. For full details see the Changelog. Note: pdfRender is an

Use cases

batches of invoices to check whether or not the documents were tampered with. Supply chain Invoices are merely a first step, we

pdfOCR: If your scanned document has a mixture of sections with paragraphs and tables, what is a recommended strategy here?

This question is related to the TextPositioning property, which you can read about it here

Fail-safe processing of Outlines without Parent link

throwing non-descriptive errors (a NPE, and in other cases entering into an endless loop) when performing operations like merging

When Contracts aren't Smart Contracts

We're constantly talking about documents, and some of these documents might be agreements, or "contracts." The word "contract

PDF and Digital Signatures

of the PDF digital signatures functionality is to ensure: Integrity: we want assurance that the content of the document hasn't been

How to enable LTV for a timestamp signature?

iText to sign PDF documents. I need these documents to be timestamped and LTV-enabled. I followed the instructions and used

Why iText and Blockchain?

to enable the paperless world, pushing the limits of digital document interactivity! With iText, we wanted to replace paper

Release iText 7.0.7

https://jira.itextsupport.com/browse/DEVSIX-1677] - font autosize property is not respected when flattening forms [DEVSIX-1756

Tables

? How does a PdfPCell's height relate to the font size? How to create a table based on a two-dimensional array? How to put text

How to get rid of the top padding in a PdfPCell?

the "leading". You are using the default font, which is Helvetica 12pt. The default leading is 1.5 times the font size. That's 18pt

How to rotate a paragraph?

, is to define a paragraph of some defined width and height, set the users text, font, font style, alignment (center, left, right, justify

Release pdfHTML 3.0.5

: right in span tag within table causes an incomplete table streams remain open when Exception thrown incorrect font usage when

Why is my content overlapping with my footer?

I want the content that overlaps to automatically move to the next page. I am using iTextSharp to generate PDF documents

Why does ColumnText ignore the horizontal alignment?

ColumnDocumentRenderer extends DocumentRenderer { protected int nextAreaNumber = 0; public ColumnDocumentRenderer(Document document

Release iText 7.0.6

https://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Ccom.itextpdf%7Chtml2pdf%7C1.0.3%7Cjar - for .NET https://www.nuget.org/packages/itext7.pdfhtm

How to add an x-offset to a text pattern with every x-step?

); patternCanvas.beginText().setFontAndSize(font, 6.f); // Start with an X offset of 0 float x = 0; // Add 6 rows of text // The font is 6

How to format a field as a percentage?

(String value, PdfFont font, int fontSize): the first parameter is the value, the second is the PdfFont, which should be used

Why doesn't getDefaultCell().setBorder(PdfPCell.NO_BORDER) have any effect?

code: PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(new float[] { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 }); table.getDefaultCell().setBorder(PdfPCell.NO_BORDER); Font

How to align a label versus its content?

as indentation, but we change the indentation of the first line to compensate for that indentation. PdfFont font

Release pdfCalligraph 3.0.0

for sophisticated text layout and rendering in each script and language system that a font supports. In writing systems such as Vietnames

How can I create a Reader enabled PDF with a signature field that can be signed in Adobe Reader

I've read that I need to Reader enable my document, but I can't find how to do this using iText. Using iText, I've

Why do I get a StackOverflowException in the OnEndPage() event handler?

Why does it not work when I override the OnEndPage event to add a paragraph to the document? In the code below, you can see

How to define the page size based on the content?

I'm generating a PDF document with iTextSharp. This document must have only one page. In other words the content must fit

How to set the page size to Envelope size with Landscape orientation?

I create a PDF document using iTextSharp and this code: Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4.Rotate(), 10f, 10f, 100f

Where is the origin (x,y) of a PDF page?

I want to position text at some specific place in the document. However, I cannot figure out where to find the origin

What does PDF 2.0 stand for?

PDF 2.0 specifies a digital form for representing electronic documents to enable users to exchange and view electronic

How to use the full size of a page?

I managed to set the size of the PDF document I'm creating to the size I need (~3cm x ~7cm), but the content inside the page

pdfOffice: Improved line space calculation

of the original Word document so that the output PDF looks as close as possible to the original input document. Previous

How do I create a separate OCR layer?

By default, pdfOCR https://itextpdf.com/en/products/itext-7/pdfocr merges the recognized text into the image that just got

Why does my header overlap with my content?

I am using page events to create a header that consists of a table. This table is added to each page in my document

Why is content missing in my table?

or anything. Below is my Q> snippet: try { Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4.rotate()); PdfWriter writer

How to add multiple images into a single PDF?

the following code, but this code only adds the last image to the PDF. Document document = new Document(); PdfWriter writer

How to protect a PDF with a username and password?

because encryption with a username and password doesn't exist in PDF. There are two ways to encrypt a PDF document: Using

Digital Signatures Hub

signing PDF documents with iText 7. eBooks Digital Signatures for PDF Documents Our Digital Signatures eBook

How to preserve high resolution images in PDF?

the document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 0, 0, 0, 0); FileStream output = new FileStream(pdfPath + "document.pdf

Basic Concepts (Glossary)

, records management, provenance tracking, and document lifecycle management. Centralized, decentralized, or distributed storage

Why do I get an error saying that "use of extended features is no longer available"?

What do I do when I get an error message about reader extensions. I am stamping text on an existing PDF document using

pdfOffice + pdfSweep Redaction Example

frontiers for your company's document workflow, thanks to its capabilities for accurate conversion of MS Office documents to PDF

Release pdfOffice 2.0.2

documents to PDF. pdfOffice 2.0.2 brings a bumper selection of newly-supported features for document conversions, including

How to rename named destinations in existing PDF files?

I would like the named destinations in all the documents to be the same. I've been using named destinations in PDF files

How to disable the save button and hide the menu bar in Adobe Reader?

. However: if you only encrypt a document with an owner password, it is very easy to decrypt the document and to remove

Fix for when a link occupies more than two areas, a NullPointerException is thrown

PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(outFileName)); //add to doc Document doc = new Document(pdfDocument); //create

Can I create a Reader-enabled PDF using iText?

I want my PDF to have extra usage rights for people opening the document in Adobe Reader, but I can't find how to achieve

Chapter 1: Hello HTML to PDF

In this chapter, we'll convert a simple HTML file to a PDF document in many different ways. The content of the HTML file

How to find out the current cursor position on a page?

I'd like to execute a command to tell me how much height has been consumed thus far in the document (for the current page) so

Why aren't images added sequentially?

The order of the elements on paper is not the same as the order that I used to put the element in the document via

Can I change the page count by changing internal metadata?

Where can I read more about the internal structure of a PDF document? Some days ago I started to play with the internal

How to hide the Adobe floating toolbar when showing a PDF in browser?

I am generating a PDF document and displaying it in a Web browser (the current version of IE is the most important target). I

How to continue an ordered list on a second page?

I am currently creating the document by creating ColumnText objects that are placed at specific coordinates. The content

How to add a table as a header?

OnStartPage(PdfWriter writer, Document document) { base.OnStartPage(writer, document); PdfPTable tabHead = new PdfPTable(new

How to get the current page count?

When I try to count the total number of pages, I don't get the current amount. Why is that? I have to create a PDF document

pdfCalligraph: Support for Myanmar script

. pathToFontFile - String value to the path of the Myanmar font file. Example output PDF: MyanmarScript.png pdfcalligraph

Release pdfOptimizer 2.0.1

Improvement Gracefully handle PDF/A-1 support limitations for font-subsetting release pdfoptimizer 7_2_1_suite_release

Installing iText 7 Community for Java developers

</groupId> <artifactId>barcodes</artifactId> <version>${itext.version}</version> </dependency> <!-- only needed for Asian fonts

Flexbox suport in pdfHTML

to the full width of the page. <html> <head> <title> Example </title> <style> * { font-family: Arial; } p{ font-size: 14px

Chapter 6: Creating actions, destinations, and bookmarks

() method. Named actions Figure 6.2 shows links that are added to the first and the last page of a similar document. The link

How to set up a table display?

I have an application that I want to print an invoice like document in a table setup. Does anyone have a piece of code to use

How can I serve a PDF to a browser without storing a file on the server side?

the PDF to the client side: public void generatePDF() throws Exception { Document doc = new Document(); File file = new File("C

pdfOffice: Digital Signing

one of the most relevant document conversion functionalities - converting MS Office documents into PDF. Given the diverse range

How to resize a PdfPTable to fit the page?

I am generating a document that contains a table. I need to make sure that this table never exceeds one page in size

Release pdfOffice 2.0.0

to improve on this latest addition to the iText 7 Suite, and have made some changes to produce more precise Office document to PDF

Czech example

to create a series of other Font examples. czechexample <div data-pym-src='https://itext.jdoodle.com/embed/itext' data-java-url

Best iText 7 Questions on StackOverflow

PDF in general, high-level iText objects, low-level functionality, fonts, forms, page events, tables, HTML, and much more

How to allow page extraction when setting password security?

are as follows: Printing: ALLOW_DEGRADED_PRINTING or ALLOW_PRINTING Changing the document: ALLOW_MODIFY_CONTENTS Commenting

How to stamp image on existing PDF and create an anchor?

I have an existing document, onto which I would like to stamp an image at an absolute position. I am able to stamp the image

pdfOffice + iText Core Annotations Example

frontiers for your company's document workflow, thanks to its capabilities for accurate conversion of MS Office documents to PDF

What does "Not LTV-enabled" mean?

iText to sign and timestamp PDF documents. It works very well. But I recently switched from Acrobat Pro X to XI and now I see

How to get the color properties of an AcroForm field?

need the annotation dictionary. You also know that the field dictionary and the widget dictionary are often merged when one

How to attach files to a PDF?

can't seem to reference them as links within the PDF. iText in Action suggests I can do this as annotations or document level

How to convert PdfStamper to a byte array?

doesn't contain any resources such as fonts, images, form XObjects, etc... Click this link if you want to see how to answer

How to convert an A4 size PDF to a PDF booklet?

to the following question: How to convert an existing A4 PDF document to an A3 booklet? I have more or less the same requirement, but I

How to add text to an image?

I use iText to generate a PDF document. Suppose that the height of a page measures 500pt (1 user unit = 1 point), and that I

Support for linearGradient Color Scheme in Layout, CSS and SVG

(); } protected void manipulatePdf() throws Exception { Document doc = new Document(new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(DEST

Clearer exception messages when Outline Dictionaries break PDF specification rules

or System.NullReferenceException we now throw: com.itextpdf.kernel.PdfException: Document outline is corrupted: some outline

How to open an MS Word attachment by clicking an image?

How can I make an image clickable so that an attached MS word document opens? I have some PDFs here where there are some

How to modify the size of annotations and make them read-only?

" isn't shown in that list by encrypting the document using an owner password, making sure that you don't set the option that allows

How to add text inside a rectangle?

code is: Document doc = new Document(new Rectangle(570, 924f)); PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc

How to create a new PDF file if a file name already exists?

, the following code just overwrites the data of the first user in the PDF file: Document document = new Document

How to generate and design PDFs with iText or iTextSharp?

I'm wondering what is the best/easiest way to design a PDF document? Is it remotely legit to actually design a whole PDF

Why is the text I extract from an English PDF page garbled?

class. The text I'm getting is not understandable. The following code snippet represents my string extractor: Document document

How to set the zoom level of a PDF using iTextSharp?

reader = new PdfReader("input.pdf".ToString()); Document doc = Document(reader.GetPageSize(1)); doc.OpenDocument(); PdfWriter

Safeguards against loops in cross-reference structure of PDF files

We've made some improvements to how we parse cross-reference tables or streams in existing documents. The PDF file format uses

How to put text above a barcode instead of under the bars?

(true); cell = new Cell(); cell.add("PO #: " + code); cell.add(code128Image); table.addCell(cell); In this case, we set the font

How to hyphenate text?

); table.setSpacingAfter(5); final Phrase result = new Phrase(text, font); result.setHyphenation(new HyphenationAuto("de", "DE

How to truncate text within a bounding box?

layoutContext.getArea().getBBox() method and customize the piece of text we want to appear depending on the font size (12 in this example

Before we start: installing iText 7 | .NET

to be hyphenated. font-asian: use this is you need CJK functionality (Chinese / Japanese / Korean) sign: use this if you need support

Release iText Core 7.1.17

in an unpredictable way FormField setValue shall keep text font Form flattening doesn`t ignore an unfilled digital signature

iText 7: Jump-Start Tutorial for .NET

rewrite of the font classes, enabling advanced typography. It’s our intention to release a series of separate tutorials zooming

iText 7: Jump-Start Tutorial for Java

rewrite of the font classes, enabling advanced typography. It's our intention to release a series of separate tutorials zooming

Removing Items from a PDF's Outline Tree

Introduction A PDF's document outline tree (otherwise known as its bookmarks) serves as an important source of shortcuts

Before we start: Overview of the classes and interfaces

, Paragraph and Table. These are the objects that we'll add to a document, either directly or indirectly. The IRenderer interface

Installing iText 7 for Java

needed for Asian fonts --> <dependency> <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId> <artifactId>font-asian</artifactId> <version>${itext.version

How to define the width of a cell?

. The available space is the width of the page minus the size of the left and the right margin. If you create a document like

How to generate 2D barcode as vector image?

are placed into the PDF document as raster images, hence reducing the quality of the barcode on low resolution printers. As a result

How can I add titles of chapters in ColumnText?

Why can I only add a Chapter to the document body and not add a Chapter to create a TOC? I need to make a PDF like

pdfRender: BufferedImage as output format

before displaying it. For example; imagine you want to preview the first page of a PDF document, however you want to view

How to add an image watermark to a PDF file?

# and iTextSharp to add a watermark to my PDF files: Document document = new Document(); PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader

How to extract a page number from a PDF file?

a minute!" you say, "When I open a PDF in Adobe Reader, I can clearly see a page number in the document!" Yes, you can see that page

How to encrypt PDF using a certificate?

. In your scenario, this would mean that only the person who owns the smart card can open the document. First you need to extract

How to change the order of Optional Content Groups?

reader = new PdfReader(input); var document = new Document(reader.GetPageSizeWithRotation(1)); var pdfCopyProvider = new PdfCopy

How to add a table to the bottom of the last page?

I have created table in a PDF document using iText. This works fine, but I don't want to add the table at the current pointer

Improving SVG to PDF conversion

to adversely affect document creation. The first bug was causing SvgConverter to create invalid graphics instructions

How to define different border types for a single cell?

) throws Exception { PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document document = new Document(pdfDoc); Table

Release iText Core 7.1.16

() in PdfSigner Bugs Streams remain open when Exception thrown Support Type3 fonts extraction, when glyphs have non-standard names

Release pdf2Data 3.0.0

is now removed. Use #addExtractionMetadata instead. Breaking change in template syntax: font style selector now stores

How to add text at an absolute position on the top of the first page?

a template and wrap it inside an Image object. By doing this, we can add the PdfFormXObject to the document just like any other

How to set initial view properties?

. Document Options: Show = Bookmarks Panel and Page Page Layout = Continuous Magnification = Fit Width Open to Page number = 1 Window

How to change the color of pages?

. Rectangle pageSize = new Rectangle(PageSize.A4); pageSize.setBackgroundColor(new BaseColor(84, 141, 212)); Document document

How to add a printable or non-printable bitmap stamp to a PDF?

depending on the actual Acrobat Reader print settings. I.e. when a user selects the option "Document" in Adobe Reader's Print

.How to add "continue on next page" / "continued from next page" to a table? vLatest

corresponds with a row in a PdfPTable and finally I add this PdfPTable to the Document. When the table is split, I need to add

How to add "continue on next page" / "continued from next page" to a table?

corresponds with a row in a PdfPTable and finally I add this PdfPTable to the Document. When the table is split, I need to add

.Superimposing content from one PDF into another PDF vLatest

Example written in answer to the question Click How to superimpose pages from existing documents into another document

Chapter 4: Making a PDF interactive | .NET

In the previous chapters, we’ve created PDF documents by adding content to a page. It didn’t matter if we were adding high

How to add a background image to a cell?

I want to create a document which contains a table with cells with the same background image and text. I have the following

Getting started

break? How to create a custom dashed line separator? How to create a document with unequal page sizes? How to align two paragraphs

Superimposing content from one PDF into another PDF

Example written in answer to the question Click How to superimpose pages from existing documents into another document

PNG Image Handling

images to a PDF. Details When we use iText to add a PNG image to a document, in a few use cases we end up with a PDF file which

Release pdfXFA 2.0.10

throws unexpected exceptions when processing XFA. If you need to process XFA documents, we have a related blog post that may

Release pdfXFA 2.0.11

fields. If you need to process XFA documents, we have a related blog post that may be interesting to you: How to modify XFA

Release pdfXFA 3.0.0

other products, plus a couple of bugfixes. If you need to process XFA documents, we have a related blog post that may be interesting

Release pdfOffice 2.0.1

functionality. It raises the bar for Office document conversion to a new level by introducing support for Excel spreadsheets to go along

pdfOffice: improved conversion of docx files containing embedded videos

containing embedded videos. While previous releases would convert such files without errors, the resulting document would only contain

How to define the data encoding when submitting a PDF form using AcroForm technology?

by changing the default font (and encoding) of the text field. I've also searched ISO-32000-1 for encodings in fields, but all I

Before we start: installing iText 7

: use this if you want text to be hyphenated. font-asian: use this is you need CJK functionality (Chinese / Japanese / Korean

Page events

to rotate a page while creating a PDF document? How can I add an image to all pages of my PDF? How to add a rectangle to every

Is it possible to set a different alignment for text on the same line in the same cell?

PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); Table table = new Table(1); Paragraph p = new Paragraph() .add(new Text

How to create a link to launch an external program?

action like this (the code can be easily converted to C#): PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc

How can I set the zoom level of a PDF using iText 7?

a document with a default display magnification level. The following code uses PdfDocument(), which has been initialized

How to create a JavaScript action to open the attachments panel?

IOException { PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); PdfAction action

How to introduce multiple PdfPageEventHelper instances?

I have to generate a large amount of different types of documents using the iTextSharp library that all have things in common

How much does it cost to upgrade iText 5 to iText 7?

changes in the document model. iText 7 puts more emphasis on the separation of the high-level document model and the low-level

Digital signatures - chapter 5

These examples were written in the context of Chapter 5 - "Validation of signed documents" of the Digital Signatures for PDF

How to write a Zapfdingbats character at a specific location on a page?

I want to put a check mark using Zapfdingbats on a specific location in my PDF document. What I achieved so far is this: I can

How to create an uncompressed PDF file?

(CompressionConstants.NO_COMPRESSION); PdfWriter writer = new PdfWriter(dest, properties); PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(writer); D

Release pdfXFA 2.0.7

posts that may be interesting to you: How to modify XFA documents before flattening

Release pdfXFA 3.0.1

); If you need to process XFA documents, we have a related blog post that may be interesting to you: How to modify XFA documents

Release pdfCalligraph 3.0.1

documents, enabling you to expand your document workflow with accurate rendering for global languages and writing systems

How do I change the border color of a PdfPCell?

(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); Table table; table = new Table(2); Cell cell; cell = new Cell().add("Cell 1

How to draw vertical gradient in iTextSharp?

of an iTextSharp pdf document: PdfShading shading = PdfShading.SimpleAxial(pdfWriter, 0, document.PageSize.Height

How to change the icon of a push button field?

PdfReader(src),new PdfWriter(dest)); PdfAcroForm form = PdfAcroForm.getAcroForm(pdfDoc, true); Document doc = new Document

How to write a table header if part of a table is forwarded to the next page?

. I am using PdfWriter to create a PDF document. I am adding a PdfPTable to the PDF document. This table has header row

How to underline a portion of text in a text field?

PdfDocument(new PdfReader(src), new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); PdfAcroForm form = PdfAcroForm.getAcroForm

How to distribute the radio buttons of a radio field across multiple PdfPCells?

: PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); PdfButtonFormField group

How to flatten a XFA PDF Form using pdfXFA

())); pdfdoc.close(); Where src, dest and xml are String paths to your documents. A dynamic XFA form usually consists of a single page PDF

How do I add XMP metadata to each page of an existing PDF?

So far all the examples seem to involve adding metadata while creating a new Document. I want to take an existing PDF and add

How to reorder the pages of a PDF file?

I am generating Table of Contents after creating a document and I want to move Table of Contents to the start of the document

How to add a text to the left and to the right in a header?

How do I divide my header and footer into three sections? I need to add more than one header and footer to my document

How to split a row over multiple pages?

: PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); pdfDoc.setDefaultPageSize(PageSize.A6); Document doc = new Document

How to get text and image in the same cell?

)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); Table table = new Table(2).setMargin(4); Cell cell; Image img; Paragraph p; for (int i = 1; i

How to reorder pages in an existing PDF file?

I want to move a couple of the last pages to the start of my document. I am using the iText pdf library. Does any one know how

How can I add an image to all pages of my PDF?

used the following code below all the otherdoc.add() Document doc = new Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4, 10, 10, 30, 1

Does anyone have any idea how TabStop works?

(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); Paragraph p = new Paragraph("Hello World."); doc.add(p); p = new

How to invoke a page break for nested tables?

createPdf(String dest) throws Exception { PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document

How to create a table with 2 rows that can be used as a footer?

I want to add footer with 2 rows. The 1st row will have the document name with a background color. The 2nd row will have

How to read bookmark titles?

I am working with a single PDF containing multiple documents. Each document has a bookmark. I need to read the bookmark names

How to add alternative text for an image in Tagged PDF?

I know that iText can generate tagged PDF documents from scratch, but is it possible to insert alternative text for images

How to flatten a XFA PDF Form using iTextSharp?

src, dest and xml are String paths to your documents. A dynamic XFA form usually consists of a single page PDF (the one

How to adapt the position of the first line in ColumnText?

(ColorConstants.RED).rectangle(rect).stroke(); } Then I set ColumnDocumentRenderer for the current document, so that new data

.Release pdfHTML 4.0.0 vLatest

Changes Bump to .NET Framework 4.6.1 New Features Allow closing empty layout document without exceptions Introduce interface

Release pdfHTML 4.0.0

Changes Bump to .NET Framework 4.6.1 New Features Allow closing empty layout document without exceptions Introduce interface

pdfOffice - Example

pdfOffice is an iText 7 add-on that allows generating a PDF document from either a Word, PowerPoint, or Excel file. Currently

Release iText 7.0.2

launches (stay tuned!) as well as bugfixes and performance improvements. Beyond these updates, we have also improved: font

Positioning different text snippets on a page

with a different source? Click How to draw a rectangle around multiline text? Click How can I automatically change the font size

Chapter 4: Making a PDF interactive

In the previous chapters, we've created PDF documents by adding content to a page. It didn't matter if we were adding high

Migration guide from iText 5 to iText 7

features a new rendering framework (to accommodate pdfHTML) and several changes in the document model. iText 7 puts more emphasis

How to create a table in which the cells have different widths?

= new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); Table table = new Table(10); table.setWidth

How to add an image and text to the same cell?

this: public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException { PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document

How to add a table in the top-right corner of the page?

pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc, new PageSize(300, 300)); doc.setMargins(0, 0, 0, 0

How to fill XFA form using iText without breaking usage rights?

filled pdf, Adobe Reader says something like this: This document enabled extended features. This document was changed since

How to extend the page size of a PDF to add a watermark?

I want to add a watermark to a document that doesn't cover any of the existing text (not even if the watermark is transparent

Why is the page size of a PDF always the same, no matter if it's landscape or portrait?

i = 0; i pdfreader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) { document = PdfStamper.getOverContent(i).getPdfDocument(); document.getPageSize

Is it possible to attach multiple layout events to a PdfPCell?

(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); Table table = new Table(2); Cell cell; int condition; for (int i = 1; i Suppose

How to make an image a qualified mask candidate in itext?

PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); PageSize pageSize = new PageSize(PageSize.A4).rotate(); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc

How to give an image rounded corners?

(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); ImageData img = ImageDataFactory.create(imgSrc); Image imgModel = new

How to load a PDF from a stream and add a file attachment?

file and I need this byte array load to iTextSharp: using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Input)) { Document doc = new

How to precisely position an image on top of a Table?

the table to the Document, and then query the table to get the absolute positions of the rows and columns, and then add the image

.Why does the cell background color affect the color of other lines? vLatest

void DrawLines(Document pdfDoc, PdfContentByte cb) { cb.MoveTo(0, 562); cb.LineTo(pdfDoc.PageSize.Width, 562); cb.MoveTo(0, 561

Why does the cell background color affect the color of other lines?

void DrawLines(Document pdfDoc, PdfContentByte cb) { cb.MoveTo(0, 562); cb.LineTo(pdfDoc.PageSize.Width, 562); cb.MoveTo(0, 561

How to introduce rounded cells with a background color?

() method): protected void createPdf(String dest) throws Exception { PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest)); Document

Why is my cell event not triggered?

to the table. Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4); float twocm = Utilities.millimetersToPoints(20f); doc.setMargins(twocm, twocm

How to draw a line every 25 words?

)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); String[] words = readFile().split("\\s+"); Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph(); Text

How to continue field output on a second page?

at the position defined by the field using ColumnDocumentRenderer: Java C# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc

Release pdfOffice 1.0.0

It was developed to provide best-in-class native conversion of MS Office documents into fully ISO-compliant PDF files. It can handle file

How to tell iText which fields to flatten first?

(); PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(src), new PdfWriter(baos)); Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); PdfAcroForm form

How to get the UserUnit from a PDF file?

is the measurement unit in PDF documents? Most of the measurements in PDFs are expressed in user space units. ISO-32000-1 (section 8.3.2.

How to divide a page in N parts so we can fill each with a different source?

is each page in this document: the upper part shows the text in Latin, the middle part shows the text in English, the lower part

Is it safe to remove XFA?

pre-filled on Acrobat Reader but not in Acrobat Pro. Other viewers like Ubuntu Document Viewer, present the file correctly. I

How to add JPEG images that are multi-stage filtered (DCTDecode and FlateDecode)?

Recently I am tasked with reducing the file sizes of PDF generated from blank office documents. The images are mostly blank

How to add a border to a paragraph?

I've created a Paragraph using iText. Now I have to add a border to this paragraph, not to the whole document. How do I do

Release pdfSweep 2.0.7

an important improvement. An annoying bug that could cause a NullPointerException for TD and TL operators when analyzing a document strea

Logging mechanism

These examples were written in the context of the question Click How can I log the number of documents / bytes I've processed

Release pdfOptimizer 2.0.0

to offer the same great optimization of PDF documents in a more productive way. Maven

.Release pdfOptimizer 2.0.0 vLatest

to offer the same great optimization of PDF documents in a more productive way. Maven

How to fix the orientation of a PDF page in order to scale it?

of an existing PDF document. This works fine if the pages aren't rotated, but I don't succeed in rotating pages correctly

How to convert colored images to black and white?

PNGs and replacing them in the document (the PNG is much smaller than a JPG for black and white format). I've tried varieties

Appendix

() because this method only works for objects added directly to the Document. It won't work for nested objects. Method Document Canvas

Absolute positioning of text

to truncate text within a bounding box? Why does using ColumnText result in The document has no pages exception? How to adapt

Inspect a PDF

created with an unknown random owner password? How to read bookmark titles? How to get the page width and height of a PDF document

How to rotate a page 90 degrees?

create a PdfDocument to get an instance of the document, and just change the /Rotate value in every page dictionary

How to check for an event and remove it?

check if the document has any type of event (PdfDocumentEvent.START_PAGE, PdfDocumentEvent.INSERT_PAGE

Adding page numbers to an existing PDF

In this example, we use ColumnText to add page numbers to an existing PDF document. stamppagexofy <div data-pym-src

How to add blank pages to an existing PDF in java?

(pdfDoc.getFirstPage().getPageSize()); pdfDoc.addNewPage(index + 1, ps); pdfDoc.close(); If src refers to a document with 10 pages, the co

Widow and Orphan content support added

Support for controlling widow and orphan content was added in iText 7.1.11 so that content looks precise on the document page

Release pdfOCR 1.0.1

https://itextpdf.com/en/products/itext-7/pdfcalligraph customers, so that they can render advanced typography in their OCRed documents. G

Release pdfXFA 2.0.9

to modify XFA documents before flattening https://itextpdf.com/en/blog/technical-notes/how-modify-xfa-documents-flattening GitHub

Release pdfSweep 2.0.6

cause Acrobat Reader to fail when reading the document. GitHub https://github.com/itext/ Maven

pdfOffice: Spreadsheet To PDF Support

and .xls spreadsheets to PDF along with the other Office document formats pdfOffice supports. We have been working hard to include

pdfOffice: improved conversion of docx files with repeating table header on new page

page. Previously, such files would result in converted documents with a table which on subsequent pages did not contain all

Questions about PDF in general

the coordinates of a rectangle in PDF? What is the connection between LTV and document timestamps? How to protect an already existing

Actions and annotations

to set the BaseUrl of an existing PDF document? How to change the author name for comments? How to add a printable or non

General questions about iText

and getPageLabelFormats? How to add text at an absolute position on the top of the first page? How can I log the number of documents

How to find out which fields are required?

that the best solution will be to use iText library. I can read file, and read AcroFields from a document but is there any possibility

How to update a PDF without creating a new PDF?

Microsoft Word works: you can't open a Word document and write directly to it. Word always creates a temporary file, writes

Adding a cover page to an existing PDF

These examples were written in answer to the question Click How to add a cover page to an existing PDF document? addcover1

pdfHTML: Responsive Design

This is an example of how pdfHTML is able to reflow the contents of generated PDF documents using responsive design. The code

Digital signatures - chapter 1

Signatures for PDF documents https://itextpdf.com/en/resources/books/digital-signatures-pdf/intro eBook. c1_01_digestdefault <div

Digital signatures - chapter 4

documents https://itextpdf.com/en/resources/books/digital-signatures-pdf/intro eBook. c4_07_clientserversigning <div data-pym-src

How can I add a new AcroForm field to a PDF?

This is documented in the official documentation, more specifically in the SubmitForm

Release pdfXFA 2.0.8

blog posts that may be interesting to you: How to modify XFA documents before flattening

How to send a file to the server through a PDF?

prepared an example that explains how to create such a field when creating a document from scratch: FileSelectionExample

How to remove text from a PDF?

Is it possible to remove all text occurrences contained in a specified area (red color rectangle area) of ??a pdf document? I

How to resize an Image to fit it into a PdfPCell?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23607002/how-to-resize-an-itextsharp-text-image-size-into-my-code by Andrea Nobili https://stackoverf

How to rotate a single line of text?

How do I rotate text using the central point? I'm converting a document which is created with a online editor. I need

How to change a background Image into a watermark by altering the opacity?

to the Document instance. That's OK, but if you want to make such an image transparent, you need to introduce a soft mask. That's

How to add a full line break?

how to do this. The document always has a margin to the left and the right. Chunk linebreak = new Chunk(new DottedLineSeparator

Header and footer examples

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24678640/itext-pdfdocument-page-size-inaccurate regarding stamping content on an existing document in

Page orientation and rotation

Examples written in answer to questions such as: Click How to rotate a page while creating a PDF document? pageorientations

Can I convert an HTML form to a PDF?

There is limited support for converting HTML forms to a PDF document. If you have an HTML file with text fields that you want

What is the difference between iText, JasperReports and Adobe LC?

"Reader enable" PDF documents because Reader enabling requires a private key that is proprietary to Adobe. However: iText competes

How to draw lines on an image?

I am trying to draw lines on image that needs to be added to a document, just like we draw graphics on paint event of any

How to generate a report with dynamic header in PDF using iText 7?

)); if (300 != i) { doc.add(new AreaBreak()); } In my simple example, I generate a document that lists the factors of all

How to extract text and anchor information from a PDF?

the links and the corresponding text from a document, you need to loop over all the page dictionaries, get the /Annots, check

What does TextPositioning in pdfOCR do?

#a1bc6cc45862cfb71f483336f4b1e0d6b): BY_LINES (the default value) BY_WORDS These options make a difference depending on the document you a

Release pdfHTML 3.0.2

of inline text by adding the text-transform: capitalize property and provide more control over the document conversion process

Evaluating JS with pdfHTML

of document loading, it will not be processed by the browser engine. For more complex documents, you might need to wait for JS to load

Which image types are supported by iText?

/FlateDecode as filter. WMF is special. If you insert a WMF file into a PDF document using iText, iText will convert that image

How to move an AcroForm field?

value. Fields are defined using a field dictionary. Each field can have zero, one or more representations in the document

How to send a 'success' response back to Acrobat Reader from a java servlet?

in PDF, but add some document-level JavaScript that opens an alert that says "This form was submitted on 2014-07-21". If you

How to move the content inside a rectangle inside an existing PDF?

document like this: Original PDF I also have the coordinates of a rectangle: new Rectangle(100, 500, 100, 100); and an offset

How to create hierarchical bookmarks?

has an intuitive algorithm of adding outlines, no matter do you work with an existing document or create a new one. The depth

Tiling and N-upping

Examples written in answer to questions such as: Click How to tile a document and add margins to the tiles? tileintwo <div

How to use a dotted line as a cell border?

https://github.com/itext/i7js-examples/blob/develop/src/main/java/com/itextpdf/samples/sandbox/tables/DottedLineCell.java. The resulting

.Tiling and N-upping vLatest

Examples written in answer to questions such as: Click How to tile a document and add margins to the tiles? tileintwo <div

pdfOCR: How to OCR an Image to PDF/A-3u?

/A compliant document (more specifically, PDF/A-3u), with just a few lines of code. don't forget to specify the path to your

pdfHTML: Bézier Curve Improvements

are calculated and displayed within PDF documents. The screenshot below shows some HTML + CSS that utilizes Bézier curves. As we can

Encrypting / Decrypting PDFs

These examples were written in answer to questions such as: Click How to decrypt a PDF document with the owner password

Release iText 7.0.0

document models and streamline its lay-out engine.” In addition, iText 7 will come with add-ons for specific new

How to show an image at a text field position?

I have a PDF document which has AcroForm text fields. Now I want to insert a signature image in one of the those fields. I

How to draw a borderless rounded rectangle?

for a rectangle with a border of 0f. Here is the code I'm using: magazine = new Document(PageSize.LETTER,0,0,0,0); pdfw

How to delete attachments in PDF using iText?

(0); namesArray.remove(0); pdfDoc.close(); } As you can see, we start at the root of the document (aka the catalog) and we walk

How to get the page number of an arbitrary PDF object?

= originalPdfItext.getPdfObject(soOpenActionReference.getNumber()); Now what? There is a class Document that contains a method

What's an easy to print "first right, then down"?

and add them to the PDF Document in the right (row-major) order. This seems rather inelegant, so I wanted to check if there's

Release pdf2Data 2.1.8

for that column, even Qtd! If you find pdf2Data useful for document data extraction, be sure to also check out pdfOCR

Part III - PKCS#11

Pkcs11Interop, a managed .NET wrapper for unmanaged PKCS#11 libraries, available via NuGet and documented here

Why do PDFs change when processing them?

that the PDF looks the same to the human eye when opening the document in a PDF viewer, but you should not expect the PDF syntax

Digital signatures - chapter 2

documents https://itextpdf.com/en/resources/books/digital-signatures-pdf/intro eBook. c2_01_signhelloworld <div data-pym-src

Digital signatures - chapter 3

" of the Digital Signatures for PDF documents https://itextpdf.com/en/resources/books/digital-signatures-pdf/intro eBook

Part II - Proprietary APIs and Custom Providers

iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document

An IExternalSignature implementation for signing via PKCS#11 with the Entrust Signing Automation Service

documents. The process for iText integration is described in the manual provided by Entrust, but here we’ll run through the basics

How to use a Digital Signing Service (DSS) such as GlobalSign, with iText 7

of signing the document hash. One such signing service is GlobalSign, a widely-used WebTrust-certified certificate authority

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