As a go between, if I could just have greater control over the exact placement of each graphic element, photograph and text, my job should suddenly become that much the easier. As for the desire for clipping path, I was hoping to break the PDF design down into moveable components such that they may be easily relocatable within a document, and shared among documents. I'm just trying to be as OO as I can about this design. :)
I'm sorry for the nebulous description, and the lack of discrete examples, but I cannot divulge the exact nature of the project for fear of undue competition. :)
Andrew
On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 02:02 PM, Paulo Soares wrote:
As Leonard said more information is needed. iText has fairly decent
components to place text, tables and images but doesn't have any advanced
layouting engine to place this components according to some rules. It also
on depends how the creative design is described: you are doing it by looking
at a sample or do you have an abstraction such as column at this position
and image at that position? Maybe your layout can be described in simple but
precise high level terms that a program would then translate to the iText
components.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares
----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 20:15 Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development
At 12:06 PM -0800 3/17/03, Andrew McLaughlin wrote:In my efforts to evaluate iText as a PDF API, I'm finding that going from a creative design (like from an Art Director) to Java code, and making it look even remotely close, is an arduous process.
It can indeed.
This is usually better solved by having the creative person do their work in a GUI editor of some fashion (Illustrator, CorelDraw, etc.) and then having that exported in a form that you can work with (SVG, EPS, PDF, etc.) to convert to PDF (with necessary substitutions). Or starting with a PDF template that you then amend as necessary.
So far, through experimentation, I have been able to come roughly close to what the art director wants to see, but not near close enough to get any sort of signoff.
Perhaps you need to give us more information about what they want and what you are having problems delivering...Example PDF's would be helpful.
LDR
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