You can register a font from a jar, just include the full resource path. iText will look first for a file path and if not found will try to load it as a resource. You'll need itext-paulo-108 for it.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 17:30 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] is it possible to register fonts when the > .ttf file exists in a .ear or .war file (using URL)? > > Hello, > I've begun using iText to create reports for a new internet site with > much success. However, I've run into an issue of registering fonts within > my archive. I'm deploying a j2ee app to weblogic, and when I deploy an > exploded app, I can call application.getRealPath() within my jsp page and > determine the location of my ttf files to page to the FontFactory class. > However, my application is deployed to a third party host in a .ear > format. > In that format, there is no file system path to the font files as they > reside only within the ear ( or in a temporary location that I cannot > reliably determine programmatically ). > > My question is this: Is there any way to register ttf files within a > jar,ear, or war? I see discussions about loading asian fonts from within > a > jar. Does such a method exist for other ttf files? I've looked over the > code for FontFactory and BaseFont, and they all seem to pass a string > representing a filesystem path. If there is not, is that a feature I > could > request (the ability to pass a java.net.URL object to the > FontFactory.register() method? > > By the way, fantastic library. My thanks to the author's hard work. > > Thanks, > Perry Tew > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
