Quoting Richard Kennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bruno, > > First of all, many thanks for - and congratulations on - developing such a > marvellous piece of software as iText! To date, I've found it nothing but > easy-to-use and highly reliable. Well done! > > I have two quick questions regarding your doco at... > > http://www.lowagie.com/iText/tutorial/ch02.html#greek > > ..in it, you state... > > Ancient Greek > Because greek characters are used very often, there is a feature in the > constructors of class Phrase (and derived classes) that take a String as > parameter (so if you want to avoid this feature, you should always work > with > chunks, not with strings). > > QUESTION ONE > > Can I clarify if this last bit is meant to read 'you should always work > with chunks, not with phrases'?
Yes, I guess it's a typo. It has been there for a really long time. I have corrected the page at lowagie.com I mustn't forget to put the correction in CVS for the next release. > QUESTION TWO > > For those Unicode characters outside the 'greek range', is iText's ability > to render them based purely on the coverage provided by the font? If so, do > the built-in fonts (such as Helvetica) have good support for Unicode (ie. > Japanese, etc.)? If not, is iText smart enough to switch fonts to find a > matching glyph? That are many questions in one. The 'Ancient Greek' feature dates from before enhanced Font support. I needed it for a specific project. With iText you can switch between fonts easily as you have read in Chapter 9 of the tutorial. It would take some time to explain everything about fonts in a mail. Please experiment with different encodings ttf's, etc... and mail your questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a quick answer. br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
