This is an interesting problem. Taking it by the book, you can start off with this: %PDF-1.0 1 0 obj<</Type/Catalog/Pages 2 0 R>>endobj 2 0 obj<</Type/Pages/Kids[3 0 R]/Count 1>>endobj 3 0 obj<</Type/Page/MediaBox[0 0 3 3]>>endobj xref 0 4 0000000000 65535 f 0000000010 00000 n 0000000053 00000 n 0000000102 00000 n trailer<</Size 4/Root 1 0 R>> … Read more
What you want is quite possible. What you want will require you to work with the low-level PDF objects (PdfDictionary, PdfArray, etc). And whenever someone needs to work with those objects, I always refer them to the PDF Reference. In your case, you’ll want to examine chapter 7 (particularly section 3) and chapter 12, sections … Read more
This is the sample code this question is about: public void addLtv(String src, String dest, OcspClient ocsp, CrlClient crl, TSAClient tsa) throws IOException, DocumentException, GeneralSecurityException { PdfReader r = new PdfReader(src); FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(dest); PdfStamper stp = PdfStamper.createSignature(r, fos, ‘\0’, null, true); LtvVerification v = stp.getLtvVerification(); AcroFields fields = stp.getAcroFields(); List<String> names = … Read more
Yes, there is an option (action) that allows pdfs to post themselves. The steps are as follows: List item Open Adobe Acrobat Pro Select the button tool Add submit form button Add the url and how you want the form to be submitted. You’re done. The warning shown when the user clicks the “submit a … Read more
To elaborate on the answer by duffymo you’ve approved, allow me to share a chapter of my book with you: manning.com/lowagie2/samplechapter6.pdf In section 6.3.5, you’ll find out how to create a PDF template using Open Office, and listing 6.19 will show you how to fill it out programmatically: PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src); PdfStamper stamper … Read more
This answer is not for Illustrator, but for ‘some other tool’, namely Ghostscript (download gs871w32.exe or gs871w64.exe). Ghostscript allows you to ‘re-distill’ PDFs (without an intermediate conversion to PostScript, the dreaded ‘refrying’ detour). Try this command: gswin32c.exe ^ -o c:/path/to/output-cmyk.pdf ^ -sDEVICE=pdfwrite ^ -dUseCIEColor ^ -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK ^ -sColorConversionStrategy=CMYK ^ -sColorConversionStrategyForImages=CMYK ^ input-rgb.pdf And if you … Read more
I just came across a nice tool on superuser.com called PDFjam that can do all of the above in a single command: pdfjam –nup 2×1 file1.pdf file2.pdf –outfile DONESKI.pdf It has other standard features like page size plus a nice syntax for more sophisticated collations of pages (the tricky page re-ordering necessary for true booklet-style … Read more
Ok, So I found out how to change the meta-data in a .pdf form here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7c63.w.html (dead link; archived version here) Sure enough the Title in the Meta Data within the .pdf was “Coury And…” Once I changed this the Tab and the Title in Firefox web browser changed to have the title that I … Read more
I’ve managed to successfully install wkhtmltopdf-amd64 on my shared hosting account without root access. Here’s what i did: Downloaded the relevant static binary v0.10.0 from here: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list EDIT: The above has moved to here via ssh on my shared host typed the following: $ wget {relavant url to binary from link above} $ tar -xvf … Read more
This is to convert a pdf document (not pdf/a) into pdf/a: gs -dPDFA -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dUseCIEColor -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPDFACompatibilityPolicy=1 -sOutputFile=output_filename.pdf input_filename.pdf Hope this will help some one!