IText & VerticalText

Vertical Text in PDF using <CFDOCUMENT>
I am using font tag in a CSS file to layout a table header
using vertical text.
In HTML, the vertical text looks fine. However, when I
convert the table to a
pdf using <cfdocument>, the vertical text is displayed
as horizintal text and
does not follow the css specified font family, color or size.
I'm trying to use the iTEXT class VerticalText to create the
text, but i'm having trouble understanding how to call the method.
I have created the object using
myObj.vertText =
createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.VerticalText");
Does anyone have ideas on how to use iText and call its
functions?
Thanks.

Hey, Its probably not worth it but I don't really know how
else to go about it.
MY users have a form matrix which they enter text into fields
and mark checkboxes against items. Some of the items are displayed
vertically so it all fits on to one page and then they produce a
PDF from it ..... probably doesn't explain it very well actually!!
Do you know how else I could get round this?

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For your kind information this is a site that provides support for JAVA programming and JAVA Servlets related questions.
You need some information regarding a third party API, so please dont hesitate to contact your vendor.
The vendor URL: http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/
The tutorial you need to learn before starting iText is http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/
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I had a look but seems like I have use command line to execute the process. You do.
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Please look into the link below.
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Goto section 2.2.3.1 Defining Libraries Page No. 75
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Problem in merging large collection of PDF in single pdf at a time-itext

hi
i am using itext library for PDF generation.My problem is ,when i merge the large number of PDFs which is already
generated, in a single PDF ,i got 'Out of Memery' exceptions,but when i doing this with limited number of PDFs
they are concated as a single PDF .so what shall i do to overcome Out of memory exceptions.because,our client wants to print the mass PDF ,which may have more than 1000 PDFs on a single merged PDF .if any possible,when i merge the single PDF with already merged PDF one by one at a time when it will be generated,how can i handle I/O streams to open one PDF at a time and merge with already generated PDF on the same time,and how can i append the generating PDF directly on already generated PDF using streams
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package javaexamples;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfImportedPage;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
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          OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream("E:\\templates\\out\\Merged PDF\\merge.pdf",true);
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          pdfs.add(new FileInputStream("E:\\templates\\out\\07J439HF_FINAL_EVALU.pdf"));
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          totalPages += pdfReader.getNumberOfPages();
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thanks in advance
regards
Oasisdeserts

thanks for your reply,
i already tried open and close the output stream and Input Stream to read and write every PDF,but i conflicted that that last PDF only is written in the final merged PDF.so what can i do to this every time the new PDF is to take to merge with already merged PDF.
i want know about CODE TAGS
As per your succession,
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Edited by: oasisdesert on Oct 22, 2008 3:03 AM

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How To Read RTF file in JAVA? Using iText?.....
import java.io.*;
import com.lowagie.text.*;
import com.lowagie.text.rtf.*;
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public static void main(String[] args) {
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import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.rtf.parser.RtfParser;
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URGENT: HELP PLEASE. ITEXT AND MYFACES1.0.9 COMBINATION USE BLOCKS THE PDF GENERATED ITEXT.
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calm down!
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