Hello again, I just installed SEAM 1.1.5 on my machine, and I had a quick glance at the source code of the PDF related functionality. As soon as I have the time, I'll do a more thorough inspection.
These are some remarks: In package org.jboss.seam.pdf.ui.ITextComponent, there's a method replaceEntities(String text). In iText 2, there will be a class EntitiesToUnicode that will have a method EntitiesToUnicode.decodeEntity(). You could use it to translate every entity in the text String to its corresponding unicode character. (The class is already in CVS.) In org.jboss.seam.pdf.ITextUtils, I see a lot of functionality that would be interesting to add to iText or that is already present in iText. The color map and colorValue: look for class WebColors in iText: http://itext.ugent.be/library/source.php?file=128 (It will move to another package in iText 2!) There's a static method getRGBColor(String name) that gives you a Color instance based on a String "#FF0000" or "red" will return Color.RED. Method alignmentValue: this code resembles a lot to Paragraph.setAligment(String aligment) in iText. As a matter of fact, similar can be found in other iText classes too. I think it would be a good idea to add your util method to iText. pageSizeValue is similar to the PageSizeArgument constructor but better. Maybe this method should be added to the PageSize class in iText. I see that the code is LGPL, but I assume that it's OK if I adapt these simple methods and add them to iText, so that others can use them too ;-) br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
