I may be mistaken, but iText uses Fractional Metrics on fonts by default? Of course this is good, but AWT and Swing fart on Fractional Metrics.
I have successfully overridden methods in View that measure the text and now have a Fractional Metrics JTextPane that outputs to iText almost exactly as seen on the screen. There is quite a bit of code to modify, so I won't post it all here, but if anyone is interested I will be glad to forward along what I have learned. Bill Ensley Bear Printing -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of bodo teichmann Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 3:51 AM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [iText-questions] Re: why is PdfGraphics2D using cb.showText(s) instead of cb.showTextKerned(s) ? BTW: javas Graphics2D.drawString() unfortunantely ignores kerning(). but for kerning, you can correct the the glyph position by hand: first call Font.createGlyphVector() then use kering table from the font and correct the glyph positions with the value from the kering table, then call Graphics2D.drawGlyphVector(). Bodo Paulo Soares schrieb: > Perhaps next week. I have a couple of ideas. > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>Behalf Of Bill Ensley >>Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:40 PM >>To: iText Mail Group >>Subject: RE: [iText-questions] why is PdfGraphics2D using >>cb.showText(s) instead of cb.showTextKerned(s) ? >> >>Is there any way to make the AWT and PDF Spacing match closer? >> >>Bill Ensley >>Bear Printing >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paulo >>Soares >>Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:52 AM >>To: bodo teichmann; itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >>Subject: RE: [iText-questions] why is PdfGraphics2D using >>cb.showText(s) >>instead of cb.showTextKerned(s) ? >> >> >>It's a design option. The pdf and the awt spacing will not >>match in any >>case. >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >>>Behalf Of bodo teichmann >>>Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 1:23 PM >>>To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >>>Subject: [iText-questions] why is PdfGraphics2D using >>>cb.showText(s) instead of cb.showTextKerned(s) ? >>> >>>just wondering ,why PdfGraphics2D seems to ignore the font's >>>kerning ? >>>and why does it use >>>FontMetrics fm = getFontMetrics(); >>> double width = fm.stringWidth(s); >>>instead of this: >>> double mywidth = baseFont.getWidthPointKerned(s,fontSize); >>>or >>> double mywidth = baseFont.getWidthPoint(s,fontSize); >>> >>>bodo >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------- >>>The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues >>>Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. >>>It's fun and FREE -- well, >> >>almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt >> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>iText-questions mailing list >>>iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >>>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >>> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- >>The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues >>Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. >>It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt >>_______________________________________________ >>iText-questions mailing list >>iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- >>The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues >>Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. >>It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt >>_______________________________________________ >>iText-questions mailing list >>iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. 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