Adobe Illustrator is NOT a PDF editor and should not be used as one. If you are simply planning to place the PDF into Illustrator as part of another graphic, that's fine.
Try using the lower level APIs in iText for graphic instead of going through Graphics2D. There is no trick to #3 - it is simply not possible. Photoshop will rasterize ALL vector formats (AI, EPS, PDF) when opening them - it's how it works. If you want curves/paths, then you need to write native .psd files. Leonard -----Original Message----- From: Brigit Ananya [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [iText-questions] new pdf graphics file question Hi, I developed a computer graphics program (www.ananya.com) that draws curves in a faster and easier way. I would like to import and export pdf graphics files with other graphics programs. I have a new pdf graphics file question (question 1)), and since I still have two unanswered pdf graphics file questions, I post them again (questions 2) & 3)): 1) Is it possible to write a pdf graphics file of curves so that Adobe Illustrator recognizes it as a vector graphics file (as curves)? It seems that both,createGraphics and createGraphicsShapes, make a bitmap graphics file. 2) Is it possible to read the array of CubicCurve2D.Double's and the stroke and fill information from a pdf graphics file of curves? 3) What's the trick to make Adobe Photoshop open a pdf graphics file of curves as a path? (It at least allows pasting Illustrator curves as a path.) Thanks in advance for any answers! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
