Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer is great but for some reason I prefer to install things the harder way. Here’s the official Microsoft link to download the Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web installer. Its still a bootstrap downloader but if I find an ISO I’ll update this post.
Convert iTextSharp Hyperlink from remote webpage to local page number
This post is in response to a comment here. Let’s say you have a PDF with hyperlinks pointing to URLs like http://www.bing.com and you want to make these instead point to a page internal to the PDF. (Personally I can’t think of why this would be needed but someone apparently…
How to recompress images in a PDF using iTextSharp
(I originally posted this on Stack Overflow) iText and iTextSharp have some methods for replacing indirect objects. Specifically there’s PdfReader.KillIndirect() which does what it says and PdfWriter.AddDirectImageSimple(iTextSharp.text.Image, PRIndirectReference) which you can then use to replace what you killed off. In pseudo C# code you’d do: Below is a full working…
Speed up iTextSharp’s PdfReader when reading multiple files or one very large file
Most users of iTextSharp’s PdfReader are used to using the constructor that takes a single string representing a file path. For small files or only a couple of files this is fine but if you have a document with a large number of pages or just a large number of…
#3 – VB.Net iTextSharp Tutorial – Add a scaled image to a document
This is part of a series of iTextSharp tutorials for VB 2010 Express. See this post for an overview and to answer any basic questions that you may have. This post is a followup to the previous one, this time it scales the image based on the document’s size
#2 – VB.Net iTextSharp Tutorial – Add an image to a document
This is part of a series of iTextSharp tutorials for VB 2010 Express. See this post for an overview and to answer any basic questions that you may have.
#1 – VB.Net iTextSharp Tutorial – Hello World
This is the first in the series of iTextSharp tutorials for VB 2010 Express. See this post for an overview and to answer any basic questions that you may have. This is the starter, the “hello world” program done in VB.Net. The comments in the code should hopefully be enough…
VB.Net tutorial for iTextSharp
iTextSharp is a great open source PDF creation and manipulation library and is a port of the original Java version iText. Unfortunately I’ve found the documentation and samples lacking, especially for VB.Net. The only good collection of tutorials that I’ve found was written by Mike Brind. While they were a…
Getting color information from iTextSharp’s TextRenderInfo and ITextExtractionStrategy
In order to get color information when using an ITextExtractionStrategy in iTextSharp (5.1.1.0) you need to make the following changes to main iTextSharp code. Once you make these changes you can follow my SO post here for getting font information as well. iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.GraphicsState.cs iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.PdfContentStreamProcessor.cs iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.TextRenderInfo.cs This code is very experimental…
Don’t bother with TcpClient.Connected
The TcpClient has a Connected property that is very convenient to use but unfortunately it doesn’t do what you think it should do. A better name for this property would be WasConnected or WasLastOperationSuccessful. The problem is that this property only tells you the status of the last operation. For…