I got the following to work, but it is still giving me this error.
"This document contained certain rights to enable special features in Adobe Reader. The document has been changed since it was created and these rights are no longer valid. Please contact the author for the original version of this document."
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader pdfReader = new com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader("
http://ServerURL/newpdf.pdf");
com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper pdfStamper = new com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper(pdfReader, baos);
com.lowagie.text.pdf.AcroFields pdfFormFields = pdfStamper.getAcroFields();
pdfFormFields.setField("NAME_FIRST", "Chad");
//This doesn't seem to work
//pdfStamper.setFormFlattening(false);
pdfStamper.close();
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=vha-10-2850-fill.pdf");
Response.Buffer = true;
Response.Clear();
Response.OutputStream.Write(baos.toByteArray(), 0, baos.size());
Response.OutputStream.Flush();
Response.End();
From what I read, the latest iText was supposed to keep this error from happening in Adobe 9. iTextSharp just hadn't caught up to it.
Will iText or iTextSharp ever allow us to fill a PDF template (written with the newest Adobe Designer), edit it in browser, and save it to desktop with those changes? All the while being opened by Adobe 8, 9 and and up?
Thanks for your feedback.
Chad
henslecd wrote
Until iTextSharp is in sync with iText, I am using iText with IKVM to get the dll's I need.
I just have a couple questions that should be straight forward. I need to know what to change in the following code (where commented out) to get the pdf to stream to a browser.
//in iTextSharp, this line would be a MemoryStream
//java.io.OutputStream newpdf; //new FileOutputStream("c:\\temp\\test.pdf");
com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader pdfReader = new com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader("
http://ServerURL/Oldpdf.pdf");
com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper pdfStamper = new com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper(pdfReader, newpdf);
com.lowagie.text.pdf.AcroFields pdfFormFields = pdfStamper.getAcroFields();// AcroFields;
pdfFormFields.setField("NAME_FIRST", "Test");
pdfStamper.setFormFlattening(true);
pdfStamper.close();
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=nameofpdf.pdf");
Response.Buffer = true;
Response.Clear();
//There is no such method as GetBuffer in the java.io.OutputStream object
//Response.OutputStream.Write(newpdf.GetBuffer(), 0, newpdf.GetBuffer().Length);
Response.OutputStream.Flush();
Response.End();
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Chad
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