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From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Paulo Soares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'John Mutters'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 18:49
Subject: RE: [iText-questions] EMF support


> At 5:13 PM +0000 1/28/03, Paulo Soares wrote:
> >iText only supports WMF. If you are generating the WMF yourself to
> include
> >in the pdf you can generate the text in Unicode with BOM and with a
> couple
> >of minor changes in iText it would work. On the other hand it doesn't
> look
> >too difficult to add support for EMF in iText. May I have a look at one
> of
> >your internationalized emf files to play with?
> >
>
> You'd have to add support for all the new graphic operators -
> and all the different versions of EMF (of which there are about half
> a dozen, I think).
>

It's not that bad. Most of the new operators are arcs and beziers and the
EMF versions are a lot more consistent than the WMF header hell.

> I suggested to the user that he use pstoedit
> (http://www.pstoedit.net) to convert to PDF and then place the PDF's
> with iText.
>

I think it works the other way around (ps->emf).

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

>
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