As I already mentioned in a former post I am not quite happy with the way Seam generates the extension for the generated pdf-file.

Is it possible that Seam would redirect to a "simple" pdf-file? The name of the pdf-file could be defined in the link from the content-page.

For example:

mypage.xhtml

...
<s:link value="/pdf.jsf" pdfName="myPdf" />

or even better

<s:pdf value="/pdf.jsf" pdfName="myPdf" />

or maybe

<p:link value="/pdf.jsf" pdfName="myPdf" />

<p:document xmlns:p="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pdf"
 title="Hello">
 <p:paragraph>Hello #{user.name}!</p:paragraph>
</p:document>

Does the current version support embedding digital signatures in pdf or signing a pdf file with a digital signature. If i am not wrong you can do this in iText through the use of pdfStamper. This feature would be used in all e-business sites and it would be really great to have this feature supported through seam.

http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-678 (ventateshbr did it, it already has one vote in one day... :-))

Let me start off by saying it looks really good.

My aim when I tried this out was to create adhoc PDF versions of tabular data in a generic fashion, and came across the following questions and issues:

- unlike in html, table columns must have their width explicitly set, is there a way around this or will I need to write some text size calculation routines in order to display it nicely

- how can I format the cell data ? in xhtml I use an h:outputText with a nested converter tag for numbers and dates but I can't do that within the pdf tags

- I would also like to be able to specify landscape page orientation to fit more columns on the page (prefereably at the chapter/section level rather than the whole document)

More general points
- The phase listener only appears to catch pdfs launched from pages in the root of the webapp as it checks for startsWith "/seam-doc"

- As others have mentioned I would also like to be able to use a different file ending to .seam and would like to be able to use various names for the pdf, ideally on a per document basis (I haven't tried the servlet version in cvs yet)

- lastly, the sessional document store doesn't appear to be ever cleared of the pdf data so will fill up the session with data. I'd be tempted to remove the data from the store after it has been sent down to the client (losing the ability to refresh the pdf without going back to the link that generated it), and/or using a store that has a cache expiry timeout

Next thing I was going to try is a seam-gen style template for my entities so they can be printed nicely as PDF for people who like paper

thanks

for the page orientation, there is an example on the lowagie site, its called landscapeportrait on page

http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/#part1

the code is at

http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/examples/com/lowagie/examples/general/LandscapePortrait.java

it seems to use a convenient rotate method on the page size class

thanks for the response, I'll probably end up doing a simple guesstimate of column width ratios based on the heading row and the first row of data using a custom EL function

However, in order to use it I need to be able to set the table attributes for widths and columns using an EL expression. It doesn't like it at the moment, I presume thats what the getValueBinding is used for on some of the other attributes

It's great!
My suggestion is to add to an archive taglib.tld for integration with IDEs

- As others have mentioned I would also like to be able to use a different file ending to .seam and would like to be able to use various names for the pdf, ideally on a per document basis (I haven't tried the servlet version in cvs yet)