[iText-questions] merging two libraries (fwd)

2002-03-12 Thread bruno
Hello, I have sent this mail to the FOP-mailing list. We will see what they say. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: merging two libraries Hello all, I'm not familiar with FOP, but I can't help noticing that people are moving from FOP to iText and vice versa. As ori

[iText-questions] Images into Header

2002-03-12 Thread pdf pdf
Hi!! Is there any possibility to include images into a Header? Thanks Tony _ Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://explorer.yupimsn.com/intl.asp ___ iText-question

[iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi, From the archives it appears that the discussion on the fop-dev list was about 2 years ago (no apparent refusal though). It is certainly time to revisit. From the small amount of information I know about iText it would appear to be a more advanced pdf library. I don't know what the lice

[iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread bruno
Keiron Liddle writes: > Hi, > > From the archives it appears that the discussion on the fop-dev list was > about 2 years ago (no apparent refusal though). Is it really that long ago? > It is certainly time to revisit. > > From the small amount of information I know about iText it would app

[iText-questions] Re: Images into Header

2002-03-12 Thread bruno
pdf pdf writes: > Hi!! > > Is there any possibility to include images into a Header? You could try to wrap an image into a Chunk and add it to a Phrase, but I don't give that advice with a lot of enthousiasm. It is always better to add the image at an absolute position in an OnEndPage-even

[iText-questions] Re: JFreeReport now using iText

2002-03-12 Thread bruno
David Gilbert writes: > The idea of JFreeReport is to create printed reports based on data in a > TableModel (as in Swing JTable). It's open source (GNU Lesser General Public > Licence) and you can download it from: > > http://www.object-refinery.com/jfreereport/index.html Sorry for the del

RE: [iText-questions] Re: Images into Header

2002-03-12 Thread Mattia Dongili
maybe adding a watermark to the document could be a workaround if you need the same image on every page... this enlarges a little the document size. bye Mattia > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:30 AM > To: pdf p

[iText-questions] Re: Images into Header

2002-03-12 Thread bruno
Mattia Dongili writes: > maybe adding a watermark to the document could be a workaround if you > need the same image on every page... Yes, I forgot completely about this possibility. > this enlarges a little the document size. Does it? I don't see why this would be so. kind regards, Bruno L

[iText-questions] Re: Can you add a PdfTemplate to a Cell ?

2002-03-12 Thread bruno
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> John Mizzi writes: >> >> > Can you add a PdfTemplate to a Cell ? >> >> Normally you can by making an Image of a template: >> Image img = Image.getInstance(template); >> >> I would like to point you to an example, but I fear >> I have broken this functionality in

[iText-questions] cells width question

2002-03-12 Thread Mattia Dongili
hi, I'm working on small library to create PDF files from an HTML source (once it will be stable enough I'd like to add the package to iText if Paulo and Bruno agree). I'm now building PDF tables (PDFPTable/PDFPCell) using HTML ,, tags and their properties. I will accept table witdhs in percentag

[iText-questions] Self answer:) cells width question

2002-03-12 Thread Mattia Dongili
I'm looking at the source code and iText seems to scale the widths array to fit the previously created table :) thanks :) Mattia > -Original Message- > From: Mattia Dongili > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:51 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: cells width question > > > hi, > I

RE: [iText-questions] Re: C#?

2002-03-12 Thread Paulo Soares
It shouldn't be too difficult to port to C# but it will take some work. Having a COM interface would open up the "market" to VB and ASP. I'm waiting for visual net to be out of beta to try it out; for the moment I have VC++ 6.0 for production and I don't want to mess with other environments. One p

RE: [iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread Paulo Soares
I'm not oposed to integration with FOP but what I fear is that FOP is essentially a XML project and iText would end up without a usable API to generate PDF without XML.I don't know if rather than being complementary (in the cooperative sense) , FOP and iText are too completely different approaches

RE: [iText-questions] Re: C#?

2002-03-12 Thread Mattia Dongili
It's really necessary a port? It's quite easy to use a java library in ASP code: <% Dim dtmDate Set dtmDate = GetObject("java:java.util.Date") %> The date is <%= dtmDate.toString() %> [from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iisref/ html/psdk/asp/iiwacomu.asp]

RE: [iText-questions] Re: C#?

2002-03-12 Thread Paulo Soares
The problem is that it only works with Visual J++ that as you know stopped at version 1.1.4. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Mattia Dongili [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:16 > To: Paulo Soares; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Montz > Cc:

Re: [iText-questions] RTF (was Re: Can you add a PdfTemplate to aCell ?)

2002-03-12 Thread Mark
> Ulrich Rueth writes: > >> The problem I have with this method is that there appears only a >> asterisk "*" in the header instead of the image (at least for RTF >> documents)... > > > Since the last version, you can add Images to a Cell that aren't > wrapped in a Chunk. But I don't know what ef

[iText-questions] Re: RTF (was Re: Can you add a PdfTemplate to a Cell ?)

2002-03-12 Thread bruno
Mark writes: > >> Ulrich Rueth writes: >> >>> The problem I have with this method is that there appears only a >>> asterisk "*" in the header instead of the image (at least for RTF >>> documents)... >> >> >> Since the last version, you can add Images to a Cell that aren't >> wrapped in a

FW: [iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread New, Cecil (GEAE)
My suggestion was *not* to merge the two! iText is a Java API with a document creation focus. In this day and age, XSL:FO can be viewed as just another document type - in the same way that more proprietary or older formats are (that is, PDF, RTF, etc.). Now XSL:FO is different in that you can't

RE: [iText-questions] Re: C#?

2002-03-12 Thread Mattia Dongili
Well, I'm trying right now to stantiate custom classes from an asp page following the previous example. It seems to work... I just added to the system path the Sun's Java executable in order to bypass MS virtual machine and added some classes in the system classpath... [...] In the meantime I'

Re: [iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
That sounds like a good suggestion. To start with I think we should consider only this: FOP behaves exactly the same but instead of having its own pdf generation code then iText is used as a library to generate pdf. So the questions are: - is the license useable - is the api sufficient for FOP

RE: [iText-questions] Re: C#?

2002-03-12 Thread Paulo Soares
There's something you can try if you have Visual J++. Compile the jdk 1.1.x version that is in my site. It may work and it would be an immediate solution. Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -Original Message- > From: Mattia Dongili [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 13:36

[iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread bruno
Keiron Liddle writes: > > That sounds like a good suggestion. > > To start with I think we should consider only this: > FOP behaves exactly the same but instead of having its own pdf generation > code then iText is used as a library to generate pdf. > > So the questions are: > - is the lice

RE: [iText-questions] Re: C#?

2002-03-12 Thread David Montz
With ASP.NET, the instantiation of the objects will most likely occur in C#, in the code behind page. It almost seems like the best solution, excluding porting iText to C#, is a COM bridge. I found a couple of sites that seem to have solved this problem, for example J-Integra. I am playing with

[iText-questions] (no subject)

2002-03-12 Thread amy shirey
Hi Is there a trick to getting an external link in a PdfPCell? Here's the code I'm using within the PdfPTable. Phrase phrase = new Phrase(); anchor = new Anchor( "Click Here to Track Your Shipment Online", FontFactory.get

Re: [iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread alex
At 14:27 12/03/02, Keiron Liddle wrote: > > FOP behaves exactly the same but instead of having its own pdf > generation code then iText is > used as a library to generate pdf. I agree that if anything iText could be considered as a "plugin" for PDF generation and FOP as an XSL:FO processor whi

[iText-questions] Re: (no subject)

2002-03-12 Thread bruno
amy shirey writes: > Hi > > Is there a trick to getting an external link in a > PdfPCell? I'm going to give you the same answer Paulo gave last monday (see the mailinglist archives): Use Chunk.setAnchor() kind regards, Bruno ___ iText-questions

[iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread bruno
alex writes: > I think however it would require a significant > software change which I am not qualified to estimate. Those more familiar > with the FOP source code can evaluate that. I am now working on 'Styles' and 'default fonts', so that you can tell some iText object 'please apply this st