Technology

Using iText PdfStamper to insert Images in PDFs while preserving Acroforms

We had a requirement that a template PDF which had Acroform fields had to be pre-populated (like name, email id etc) and sent to the end user so that he/she only needed to fill in the details which were expected to be filled by him/her. After going through the iText library, we found that the PdfStamper class was the best way to go...

by Vivek Krishna
Tag: iText
29-Nov-2010

Grails

Handling Password Protected Pdf with PdfReader

In one of our grails project , we had to attach cover to Pdf file . But since some of pdf's uploaded were password protected. To handle this scenario we added bouncyCastle.jar , so our version of iText was able to handle password protected pdf . And Then to check whether pdf is password protected or not , we used "Boolean...

by Hitesh Bhatia
Tag: iText
19-Aug-2010