Thanks, I'll try to repay the favor to someone else with a question I can answer.
Bill Ensley Bear Printing -----Original Message----- From: Paulo Soares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:58 AM To: Bill Ensley; iText Mail Group Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Transparant Images Here you have, in a silver platter: import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import com.lowagie.text.*; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*; import java.awt.Color; public class stamperjap { public static void main(String args[]) { try { Document doc = new Document(); PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, new FileOutputStream("c:\\stamperjap.pdf")); doc.open(); PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent(); for (int k = 0; k < 40; ++k) doc.add(new Paragraph("This text is under the images - this text is under the images.")); byte dataImage[] = {-1, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, -1}; Image img1 = Image.getInstance(3, 1, 3, 8, dataImage); img1.scalePercent(6400, 19200); Image img2 = Image.getInstance(3, 1, 3, 8, dataImage); img2.scalePercent(6400, 19200); Image img3 = Image.getInstance(3, 1, 3, 8, dataImage); img3.scalePercent(6400, 19200); img1.setAbsolutePosition(50, 600); img2.setAbsolutePosition(50, 600 - 200); img3.setAbsolutePosition(50, 600 - 400); byte maskr[] = {0x18, 0x3c, 0x66, (byte)0xc3, 0x66, 0x3c, 0x18}; Image mask = Image.getInstance(8, 7, 1, 1, maskr); mask.makeMask(); mask.setInvertMask(true); img2.setImageMask(mask); byte smaskr[] = new byte[63]; for (int k = 0; k < smaskr.length / 2 + 1; ++k) smaskr[k] = smaskr[smaskr.length - 1 - k] = (byte)(k * 254 * 2 / smaskr.length); Image smask = Image.getInstance(63, 1, 1, 8, smaskr); smask.makeMask(); img3.setImageMask(smask); cb.addImage(img1); cb.addImage(img2); cb.addImage(img3); doc.close(); System.out.println("Fim."); } catch ( Exception e ) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } Best Regards, Paulo Soares ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Ensley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "iText Mail Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 21:06 Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Transparant Images > Paulo, > > Thank you for your response, but I must just not be getting it. > > Do you have any code samples, other than the tutorial, that illustrate image > masking and transparency? > > Thanks > Bill Ensley > Bear Printing > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paulo Soares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 5:13 AM > To: Bill Ensley; iText Mail Group > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Transparant Images > > > The pdf format doesn't support ARGB, only RGB. Transparency is done: > > - setting an array to mark the transparent colors (6 elements for RGB) > - creating a BW image to use as a mask > - creating a grayscale image to use as an smask to have 256 degrees of alpha > > Best Regards, > Paulo Soares > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Ensley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "iText Mail Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 2:52 > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Transparant Images > > > > Sorry to bother again, but image.setTransparency() is not working at all, > I > > see no effect on the output. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Thanks > > Bill Ensley > > Bear Printing > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill > Ensley > > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 6:00 PM > > To: iText Mail Group > > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Transparant Images > > > > > > Never mine, I found it > > Image.setTransparency(int[]); > > > > Bill Ensley > > Bear Printing > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill > Ensley > > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 5:15 PM > > To: iText Mail Group > > Subject: [iText-questions] Transparant Images > > > > > > My Apologies, > > I'm sure someone has already asked this question, but I was unable to > > find it in the mail archives. > > > > I have a dynamically generated ARGB Image that has some transparent > > areas. > > > > When I put this image into a PDF, it loses it's transparency. > > > > Am I missing something simple? > > > > Thanks > > Bill Ensley > > Bear Printing > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation > Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. > GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway > http://2004/guadec.org > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
