title: writer cannot be resolved itext
body: <p>Hello Everyone I know this could be a simple problem I am facing but I am stuck on this for a while now. I am new in using itext. Basically I am working on a small project where I am trying to use to existing pdf to fill in the data from the database. But before I do that I just wanted to make sure if I can copy the data from database to already present pdf using itext. But I encountered this problem "cannot convert from void to pdf writer" I tried looking in itext mailing list and tried getting some sample code but could not anything helpful so I am here asking for help. Kindly help me out in my problem and give a rough idea of how to get data from databse and fill in the form.</p>
  
  <p>for example form has a last name which is left blank so I need to pull the last name from database and put in the place of last name in the pdf. following is my code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>/**
   * 
   */
  
  package itext.sample;
  import java.io.FileOutputStream;
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.sql.Connection;
  import java.sql.DriverManager;
  import java.sql.ResultSet;
  import java.sql.SQLException;
  import java.sql.Statement;
  //import com.itextpdf.text.BaseColor;
  //import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk;
  import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
  import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
  import com.itextpdf.text.Image;
  //import com.itextpdf.text.Font;
  //import com.itextpdf.text.Font.FontFamily;
  //import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
  import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.AcroFields;
  import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfImportedPage;
  import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
  import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
  //import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfStamper;
  import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
  import com.itextpdf.text.DocWriter;
  
  /**
   * @author prithvi
   *
   */
  public class FirstPdf {
  
      private static final String Result = "D:/Eclipse Java/image.pdf";
  
      public static String main(String[] args) throws SQLException,IOException,DocumentException {
          try {
  
              Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
  
          } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
  
              System.out.println("Where is your MySQL JDBC Driver?");
              e.printStackTrace();
              return null;
  
          }
        System.out.println("MySQL JDBC Driver Registered!");
          Connection connection = null;
          try {
              connection = DriverManager
                      .getConnection("jdbc:mysql://69.167.139.172/bluedb",
                              "color", "prithvi");
  
          } catch (SQLException e) {
              System.out.println("Connection Failed! Check output console");
              e.printStackTrace();
              return null;
          }
  
          if (connection != null) {
              System.out.println("You made it, take control your database now!");
          } else {
              System.out.println("Failed to make connection!");
          }
          // creating pdf document
      Document document = new Document();
      try {
            //writing to the outputfile
              PdfWriter writer= PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new FileOutputStream(Result)) .setInitialLeading(16);
              document.open(); //opening the document to do the action
              Statement stm = null;
              stm = connection.createStatement();//creating database query
              ResultSet rs = null;
              rs = stm.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM Sec1");
              PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(2);
              PdfReader reader =new PdfReader ("D:/Eclipse Java/HiltonForms2014_r.pdf");
              AcroFields form = reader.getAcroFields();
              form.setField("LASTNAME", rs.getCursorName());
              int n = reader.getNumberOfPages();
              PdfImportedPage page;
              for( int i= 1; i &lt;=n;i++)
              {
                  page = writer.getImportedPage(reader,i);
                  table.addCell(Image.getInstance(page));
              }
              document.add(table);
              document.close();
              connection.close();
              reader.close();
  
  
              /*while (rs.next()){
  
                          document.add(new Chunk(rs.getString(Result)));
                          document.add(new Chunk(""));
                          Font font = new Font(FontFamily.TIMES_ROMAN, 10,Font.BOLD, BaseColor.WHITE);
                          Chunk id = null;
                          id = new Chunk(rs.getString("Sec1ID"), font);
                          id.setBackground(BaseColor.BLACK, 1f, 0.5f, 1f , 1.5f);
                          id.setTextRise(6);
                          document.add(id);
                          document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE);
                          document.add(new Paragraph("hey there! you created a new pdf"));
                          stm.close();
                          connection.close();
                          document.close();
                      }*/
  
  
  
      }
  
                   catch (DocumentException | SQLException e1) {
                          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                          e1.printStackTrace();
                      }
                  }
  
  
  }
  </code></pre>