Some people tell us they are 'iText newbies' and use this as an excuse to produce noise on the mailing lists. Please understand that 'being a newbie' isn't always accepted as an excuse! Some questions will be labelled [NEWBIE] indicating that asking the questions could have been avoided by reading the documentation that is freely available on this site.
This category provides a series of standard answers. If you are referred to one of these questions, you probably asked a question that has been answered over and over again.
Since these questions are in the FAQ, they aren't asked as frequently as they used to be ;-)
- When I compile/run the source code I get ClassNotFound/NoSuchMethod errors!
- Can I use iText to create a Reader Enabled PDF?
- Can I use iText to fill a Reader Enabled form?
- Why does getPageNumber() always return 0?
- Why do I get the exception 'PdfReader not opened with owner password'
Many people post questions on the mailing list asking for this or that iText functionality. In some (but not many) cases, the answer is: This isn't supported by iText (for instance: dynamic XFA). Most of the time however, the questions start from the wrong assumptions (for instance: there are still people thinking that PDF is a format suited for editing documents similar to Word).
- What is PDF? (definition)
- What measurement unit is used in PDF
- Why isn't the lower left corner of my PDF page 0, 0?
- Is PDF like Postscript?
- What does "The file is damaged but is being repaired" mean?
- Can I replace the font in an existing PDF?
- Can I replace one word with another in an existing PDF?
- Is it possible to disable the Save/SaveAs button in Adobe Reader?
- What is the difference between an optimized PDF, a compressed PDF, a linearized PDF, and a cheese stick?
Sometimes people use the mailing list to ask questions about Java in general. These questions are off-topic, but as they occur quite frequently, we provide some answers in this category: