Most of what you need should be there. Heed Leonard's suggestion about using templates. Look for template examples in the tutorials, both on the main site, and in Paulo's examples. These may help with the idea of having movable components. Worst case, you can draw things with PdfContentByte...
This is based on my very limited experience with advanced iText. -Matt --- Andrew McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The layout will be something done in, say, > Photoshop. And they will > expect the PDF to end up about the same. If this was > all static, it > wouldn't be an issue. However, the PDF document will > be the result of a > user visiting a web site, making a series of > choices. And all those > choices will be composed into a PDF in the form of > photographs, > graphics and text. > > 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 > >> -- > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> -- > >> --- > >> Leonard Rosenthol > >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Chief Technical Officer > <http://www.pdfsages.com> > >> PDF Sages, Inc. > 215-629-3700 (voice) > >> > 215-629-0789 (fax) > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------- > >> This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto > Challenge is now open! > >> Get cracking and register here for some mind > boggling fun and > >> the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > >> > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > >> _______________________________________________ > >> iText-questions mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > >> > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge > is now open! > > Get cracking and register here for some mind > boggling fun and > > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > > > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > > _______________________________________________ > > iText-questions mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge > is now open! > Get cracking and register here for some mind > boggling fun and > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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