Bruno Lowagie wrote:
> Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
>
>   
>> Another question: how can I maintain the original coloring of the 
>> document that I turn into PDF? If I have a class, for example, with 
>> different color for different syntax, it all becomes black.
>>
>>     
> I assume you are Geertjan, the developer of the NetBeans module
> that converts Java source code to PDF. 

Yes I am. Here's the latest enhancement to the module: 
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan?entry=preview_functionality_for_itext_integration


> What principle do you use?
> If you put the flat source code file inside a Paragraph and add this
> paragraph to a document object, it is evident that the syntax will not
> be colored: it's just plain text; if you open it in Notepad, it won't be
> colored either.
> However, I suppose that NetBeans parses the source file and writes
> everything to a Graphics2D object in different colors. I don't know
> if it's possible, but if you could redirect this to an iText PdfGraphics2D
> object, you could let NetBeans do the coloring...
> Otherwise, there is no other way than to parse the source code files
> yourself and apply the colors yourself.
>   

Thanks for the idea. I'll investigate.


Geertjan

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