Re: [iText-questions] absolute position in RTF

2007-05-30 Thread mister bean
Generally not. Because RTF is paginated when it's rendered, it's impossible to know beforehand what the exact location of any given element will be. ---Mister Bean Ruskin Dantra wrote: Hi All, I have already searched examples and mailing list archive and I found next to nothing on this

Re: [iText-questions] absolute position in RTF

2007-05-30 Thread Ruskin Dantra
True...if thats the case is it possible to convert a pdf file generated by itext to be converted to a rtf file via itext. Its kind of going the long way but if thats possible then it would be awesome?! Also the resulting rtf file should have similar (identical would be a dream) formatting as

Re: [iText-questions] absolute position in RTF

2007-05-30 Thread Mark Hall
Hi, I'll reply to the original e-mail. Yes, in theory it is possible, but iText does not support this. The only way would be to read the RTF specification and add the required RTF codes directly via the RtfDirectContent class. Greetings, Mark On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Ruskin Dantra wrote: Hi

Re: [iText-questions] absolute position in RTF

2007-05-30 Thread mister bean
This is probably off-topic on this list, but aren't the limited paragraph-positioning codes in RTF still subject to the vagaries of pagination, thereby making absolute location quasi-impossible, barring unusual kinds of docs? (i.e., you can locate a paragraph on the page, but you can't know

Re: [iText-questions] Absolute position in .rtf and graphics?

2003-09-05 Thread Mark Hall
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 17:34, E E wrote: Why am I not able to put absolute position and graphics in a .rtf document. Is it not possible? No. There is no support for absolute positions in rtf. Supported graphic types are jpeg, png, wmf. Greetings, Mark