FAQs

Why isn't the Rupee symbol showing?

I tried using arial.ttf and arialbd.ttf, but I don't have any luck with these to show the rupee symbol. Why doesn't it work?

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How to use two different colors in a single String?

I want to set the color for only part of the string. How do I do this?

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How to add a full line break?

I use itextsharp and I need to draw a dotted line break from the left to the right of the page (100% width)
but I don't know how to do this. The document always has a margin to the left and the right.

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How to protect an already existing PDF with a password?

How do I set a password for an existing PDF?

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What is the size limit of pdf file?

I am using iTextSharp in a web application to generate PDF files. These PDF files contain .tiff images taken from a folder. If size of the contents of such a folder goes beyond 1GB then the browser gets closed automatically when receiving the PDF file. Is there a size limit when generating PDF files?

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How to disable the save button and hide the menu bar in Adobe Reader?

I am serving a PDF to a browser via a Servlet.
I need to disable the "save" and "print" option in the Adobe Reader menu bar
while other options like "scroll", "find",... should be preserved.
In add

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How to change the order of Optional Content Groups?

I have a PDF file with a hierarchy of layers. How do I modify this data in order to copy it into new file?

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How to create a TOC when merging documents?

I need to create a TOC (not bookmarks) at the beginning of this document with clickable links to the first pages of each of the source PDFs.

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How to crop out a part of PDF file?

I have to remove the top part of each page from a PDF. I managed to do this with CROPBOX, but the problem is that this will make the pages smaller by removing the top part.

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Why does ColumnText ignore the horizontal alignment?

Why does the text appear printed on top of a column, where it is unreadable?

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