On 5/12/2012 17:24, Adam Field wrote: > Hopefully you won't feel like spiting me for having to use an old > version so much that you wouldn't look into a bug that's still easily > reproduceable?
Let me quote from "iText in Action - Second Edition": Appearances created by iText are an approximation of the way Adobe Reader renders the content of a text field. Depending on the tool used to create the form and the viewer used to open the form, the appearance created by iText won’t always correspond to the appearance of the field when you click on it. This can be a serious problem when you want to flatten a form; there could be a consistent discrepancy of the baseline and the X-offset for all of the text fields. You can work around this problem by using the setExtraMargin() method, which corrects the offset in X and Y directions by specifying extra margins to be applied to every text field in the form. After the book was published, one of our paying customers suggested a fix that made the approximation more accurate. We applied it to iText and this helped the customer. Since that fix, we didn't hear any complaints anymore. If you become a customer: we'll look at it. If you don't want to become a customer: please fix the problem and share your fix according to the open source license. Fair enough, isn't it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
