When moving to JasperReports v0.5.1 we noticed that there was a subtle difference in the way our PDF reports were rendered. Bolded text now appears "fuzzier" and a bit harder to read. Through much trial and error, I was able to isolate iText v1.01 as the culprit.
With iText v0.96, when a font was defined like: <reportFont name="ColumnHeader" isDefault="false" fontName="Arial" size="12" pdfFontName="Helvetica-Bold" pdfEncoding="Cp1252" isPdfEmbedded="false" isBold="true" isUnderline="false"/> the isBold="true" had no effect on the PDF rendering. However, with iText v1.01, it DOES have an effect. The isBold="true" makes the font render in a soft, diffuse way. What is even stranger is that having pdfFontName="Helvetica" and isBold="true" renders differently than pdfFontName"Helvetica-Bold" and isBold="false". If pdfFontName="Helvetica-Bold" and isBold="true", the boldness and soft/diffuse effects combine. I discovered this by alternating between iText v0.96 and iText v1.01 with JasperReports v0.5.1. I don't know whether this is a bug or just a heads up that a change has taken place and reports may need to be redefined to combat it. Teodor? ====================================================================== Hi, I've noticed this myself but didn't investigate it further since there is no recent modification in the library that could be related to this. If you say it is about the iText version we use, maybe we should try to post on their forum in case Paulo does not hear our cry for help. :) Thank you, Teodor ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
