pdf-generation

I'm trying to generate a PDF that contains Arabic text using PDFBox Apache but the text is generated as separated characters because Apache parses given Arabic string to a sequence of general 'official' Unicode characters that is equivalent to the isolated form of Arabic characters. Here is an example: Target text to Write in PDF "Should be expected output in PDF File" -> جملة بالعربي What I get in PDF File -> I tried some methods but it's no use here are some of them: 1. Converting String to Stream of bits and trying to extract right values 2. Treating String a sequence of bytes with UTF-8 &&

I would like to know a way to remove white margins from a PDF file. Just like Adobe Acrobat X Pro does. I understand it will not work with every PDF file. I would guess that the way to do it, is by getting the text margins, then cropping out of that margins. PyPdf is preferred. iText finds text margins based on this code: public void addMarginRectangle(String src, String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException { PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src); PdfReaderContentParser parser = new PdfReaderContentParser(reader); PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(RESULT))

The following question and answer on StackOverflow show how to generate a PDF that cannot be opened without the appropriate password. Password protected PDF using C# I would like to use this framework similarly, but slightly altered to allow my users to "open" the PDF without needing the password, but only allow them to EDIT the PDF if they have the password. Is that possible with iTextSharp? if this matters, I am working in C# 4.0 within a WF 4.0 custom activity. Yes, there are two passwords that you can pass to PdfEncryptor.Encrypt() , userPassword and ownerPassword . Just pass null to the

Im using latest TCPDF version(5.9). But have some strange problems with encoding. I need Lithuanian language symbols like: ąčęėįšųūž. But get only few of it. Other remain like ????? So what should I do ? I use default times font(it comes with TCPDF download). Any help would be appreciated. Set the $unicode parameter on the TCPDF constructor to false and the $encoding parameter to 'ISO-8859-1' or some other character map. This will help you: Default for UTF-8 unicode: $pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false); Example of constructor for European