Comments on peabrane -- a developer blog: PDF Templates via Rails

Not sure what happened, it did work. Hmm. I upda...

2009-02-08T10:25:00.000-08:00

Not sure what happened, it did work. Hmm. I updated the project on rubyforge and github. It does work now.

http://github.com/jaywhy/pdf-stamper/tree/master
http://rubyforge.org/projects/pdf-stamper/

I couldn't install this gem.D:\InstantRails-2.0-wi...

2009-02-04T10:47:00.000-08:00

I couldn't install this gem.
D:\InstantRails-2.0-win\rails_apps\ruby_snippets>gem sources
*** CURRENT SOURCES ***

http://gems.rubyforge.org/
http://gems.github.com

D:\InstantRails-2.0-win\rails_apps\ruby_snippets>gem install pdf-stamper

ERROR: could not find gem pdf-stamper locally or in a repository

I did it numerous times, but couldn't get in installed. Whats the problem?

Hi, After much banging-of-the-head-against-the-wal...

2007-12-26T19:47:00.000-08:00

Hi, After much banging-of-the-head-against-the-wall I figured out how to circumvent the "Can't start the AWT" error on Leopard. Rjb::load has an optional second argument that's an array of command-line args for the java vm. Adding -Djava.awt.headless=true seems to do the trick. Ultimately, line 12 in the current version should reads as follows:

Rjb::load(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', '..', 'ext', 'itext-2.0.4.jar'), ['-Djava.awt.headless=true'])

Dunno how it affects non-Mac environments but my guess is that it won't hurt. Anyway, thanks for this great code, and please continue to work on it- it's quite useful.

This is was I was looking for ! I have this solve...

2007-06-07T02:57:00.000-07:00

This is was I was looking for !

I have this solved in a java application using a servlet; now I am trying to rewrite my application in ruby/rails.

Into which file does the pdfstamper code go ? Would that be a model file ?

Does it matter where you place the itext.jar and if so , where do you have to place it ?

Is there any rule regarding the path to the template ?

Thank you

Thank you for the excellent blogpost. I have added...

2007-03-06T00:06:00.000-08:00

Thank you for the excellent blogpost. I have added a link to it in my FAQ: http://itext.ugent.be/library/question.php?id=35

Some extra pointers:

You are right when you say there is only one product that can create XFA forms: Adobe LiveCycle Designer. But there are plenty of other products that can create AcroForms.
See http://itext.ugent.be/library/question.php?id=31 to read more about the difference between the two flavors of PDF forms.

As for using Image placeholders: there's a possible solution in the third comment of the FAQ entry on forms, but in a more recent iText version a new method was added to iText that makes it easier to replace a button (buttons are the best placeholders for images): search for AcroFields.replacePushbuttonField()