Questions tagged [pdfclown]

PDF Clown is a free/libre open source implementation of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specification published by Adobe® Systems Inc., written as a class library in multiple languages (Java™ 6 and C#/.NET 4.0).

PDF Clown is a free/libre open source implementation of the Portable Document Format (PDF) specification published by Adobe® Systems Inc., written as a class library in multiple languages (Java™ 6 and C#/.NET 4.0).

Java version represents the reference implementation of PDF Clown.

C# version was developed upon the Mono flavour of the .NET framework, which allows it to run over multiple platforms (BSD and UNIX variants, including OS X and Solaris, and Microsoft® Windows®). As such code adheres to the related ECMA spec, it may also be run upon other .NET implementations, including MS'.

It's hosted here at SourceForge.

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Set Barcode to Code39?

Looking at sample barcode script. I wonder how do I set the barcode to code39 for it to work for vehicle's VIN? pdfclownEntities::EAN13Barcode barcode = new pdfclownEntities::EAN13Barcode(parmBookValues.Vin); XObject…
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BlockComposer.ShowText() doesnt have an option to draw underline text?

I'm using blockComposer.ShowText("foo") to build texts but how to do an underline? I don't see enough examples on underline text, how do you all make one?
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Create two or three columns spreadsheet having multiple rows?

I understand that table and cells are supported only in PDFClown version 2.0 but that is only a few months away. So, being stuck with version 1.2, how do I create a spreadsheet having 2 columns (& another spreadsheet having 3 columns)? Anything…
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How to generate PDF Document into bytes data (or binary) in memory without creating (or saving) file?

I'm new to PDF Clown and, taking a look at the samples included in its distribution, I noticed they use file = new org.pdfclown.files.File(path) to create new PDF files, then file.Save(anotherPath) to save them to the file system, but I couldn't…
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Cannot correctly include PDFClown in my project

I'm trying to use PDFClown for the first time. As written in the ReadMe file, i tried to import PDFClown Project through the following steps in my Java Workspace, Eclipse IDE 1) File => import... => Existing Project into Workspace => then i selected…
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PDFClown Hello World not working

I'm trying to run the first PDFClown java example but i'm unable to run it. Sample cannot be found, as well as the serialize method. Also, the run Overriding seems to have any sense at the moment. Can you help me? Thank you
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IllegalArgumentException while highlighting pdf using PDFClown

I've been working on highlighting pdf using PDFClown and mostly its working fine however in few cases its giving the exception as provided in the below stacktrace : Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method…
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Running Pdfclown on the web

Does anyone know the command or the way to run pdfclown on java servlet? There's pdfclown.samples.web folder included in the library but the readme says nothing about how to run the server.
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comment or highlight two-column pdf using pdf-clown

I have searched for possible solution by googling/so/forums for pdfClown/pdfbox and posting the problem at SO. Problem: I have been trying to find a solution to highlight text, which spans across multiple lines in pdf document. The pdf can have…
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PDF Clown, AcroForms with same field names

I have made a number of single page Forms with Open Office and exported them to PDF documents. I my application I open up the a number of these pdf documents, fill in the form elements and combine them and save. In am printing out a List onto each…
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PDF clown - ShowText unicode β (U 03B2) endless loop/freeze c#

I have been using PDF Clown for a few days and am loving the ease of use. I cannot seem to figure out this problem I am having. Whenever the ShowText comes up on the β when using blockcomposer the server goes into an endless loop and I have to…
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extracting from specific areas using pdfclown

I am trying to highlight text in PDF with two columns and but the problem is while the extractor extracts the text row wise. So the queried text doesn't get matched. I was thinking if there is some function in pdfclown which can help me to extract…
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extracting text from using pdfclown function 'textextractor'

i am getting an error while using textextractor of pdfclown library. The code i used is TextExtractor textExtractor = new TextExtractor(true, true); for(final Page page : file.getDocument().getPages()) { System.out.println("\nScanning page " +…
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Pdfclown-Few different fonts of pdf files are not recognizing and also i am getting exceptions

I am facing issue with pdfclown frequently when few pdf files are non english and thier fonts are not recognizing and also i am getting below exception.Please find the pdf path and code path.Load encoding method is failing in both CompositeFont.java…
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Using pdfclown few search keywords are not highlighting in chinese/japanese documents

Iam facing issue with some of the search keywords are not highlighting in chinese documents .Due to confidiential concerns iam not providing actual pdf . search keywords are 1)亿元或2) 收入亿来源 Please find the pdf document path which i tested ,pdfpath…
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