> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: Jeremy Bowman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PdfGraphics2D class (RE: [iText-questions] generating
> graphs)
>
>
> > Some quick points of comparison on the 2 pieces of code so far:
> > - My code uses a PdfTemplate as the basis of the Graphics
> context; I think
> > this is a more flexible solution than writing directly to a
> PdfContentByte
> > obtained from the PdfWriter, since the template can then be used in
> multiple
> > places, as an image, etc.
>
> I actually had mine this way for a while as well as a way of
> getting setClip
> to work. When they call setClip, change the reference to the
> current drawing
> template to a new template with the correct clipping area.
>
> /**
> * @see Graphics#setClip(Shape)
> */
> public void setClip(Shape s) {
> PdfTemplate template =
> cb.createTemplate(document.getPageSize().width(),
> document.getPageSize().height());
> cb.addTemplate(template, 0, 0);
> cb=template;
> clip(s);
> }
>
> This is basically how you are handling setClip. The problem
> is, it doesn't
> seem to work (at least I can't seem to get it to).
I don't know how you have your clip method set up, but I ran into clip snags
when I did my G2D object. Basically, you have to call...
cb.clip();
cb.newPath();
After that it works fine. I haven't worked with templates, so I don't know
how that complicates things.
-Kevin
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