Thank you very much for the bufixes!
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Quoting "Tkalcec, Danijel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Good day!
>
> First, I would like to tell you that iText is a really great library for
> creating PDF documents. Since we needed a way to dinamically generate PDF
> documents for our (also dinamically generated) HTML sites, and we couldn't
> find a solution that would suit our needs, we decided to use iText as a PDF
> generator and write our own "HTML to PDF converter". While doing so, I
> found
> and fixed 2 major bugs in iText. Sorry if this is the wrong address to send
> you bug fixes for the iText library, but I don't know any other ways.
>
> 1. GIF import: <com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfImage>
> - Larger GIFs or GIFs with more colours didn't import. The problem is a 12
> BIT GIF Table limit, which the GIF importer ignored. To fix this BUG (so
> that any GIF can be imported), you just need to insert a line in PdfImage
> constructor (in my version, this is line 488).
>
> This is the code chunk you would have to change ...
> -------------
> if (code == 256) {
> codelength = 9;
> tablelength = 257;
> }
> if (code == 257) {
> break;
> }
> if (tablelength == (1 << codelength))
> {
> /* insert this line */ if (codelength<12) // bugfix by DT
> codelength++;
> }
> -------------------------------
>
> 2. Table generation: <com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfDocument>
> - If you use the "hasToFitPageCells" flag and have a cell that doesn't fit
> on an empty page, the Table generator will play stupid and generate
> thousands of empty pages while trying to fit this cell on a page. A simple
> bugfix would be to check the "hasToFitPageCells" flag only if we already
> placed a cell on this page. To do this, you just need to insert a line to
> PdfDocument.add(Element element). In my version, this is line 1531, but
> here
> is the code chunk where it goes ...
> --------------------------------
> // loop over the cells
> boolean cellsShown = false;
> int currentRownumber = 0;
> for (ListIterator iterator = cells.listIterator();
> iterator.hasNext() &&
> !tableHasToFit; ) {
> cell = (PdfCell) iterator.next();
>
> /* insert this line */ if (cellsShown) // bugfix by DT
> if (cell.rownumber() != currentRownumber &&
> !cell.isHeader() &&
> cellsHaveToFit) {
> currentRownumber = cell.rownumber();
> int cellCount = 0;
> boolean cellsFit = true;
> --------------------------------
>
> Is there a way I could communicate with you concerning iText (and send you
> bugfixes, if I should find any more bugs) that you would prefer rather that
> using the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> E-mail address?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Danijel Tkalcec
> Systems Engineer
>
> IMAGIN AG
> Kurmainzer Stra�e 20
> D - 65817 Eppstein
> Tel: +49 06198 586-241
> Fax: +49 06198 586-222
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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