Fernando Margueirat wrote: > But > if I were you I would ignore them or answer something on the line of > "the answer to your question is available in the FAQ, please take some > time to go through it". Or "it's answered on the book that I wrote. > Please help me pay my bills and support future development of iText by > buying the book". But insulting the person who post the question won't > stop those type of questions coming as anyone with an internet > connection knows. You can also add "if you still don't know how to solve > the problem I can certainly help you but you will have to go through > my/our consulting services which are billable at $XXX an hour".
That's good advice. Note that writing a FAQ is also a very demanding job. Today I've added a completely new series of examples that will make it easier to answer questions with a link: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/classroom.php However, I still have to add the resources, jars needed, input and output PDF files... It's quite some work. > That being said, I can tell you that: > - Both the book and the javadoc documentation are not the best I've > ever seen. I know, that's the reason why I'm putting the 'classroom' examples online, but... again: it's a lot of work. > So please, don't take this personally. If you find anything positive in > this email great. It's a well thought, well balanced, positive mail. Thanks! > I just hope we can all help make iText a greater better product. > Yes I said all, because although you make 99% of the work, I'm sure that > some of these questions help you find bugs in iText and make you realize > that some things that people request or ask if they are possible to be > done with iText are probably good enhancements/additons for future versions. True: the unanswered TOC question a while ago led to the development of the 'glue' Chunk and the introduction of 'tab' Chunks; the questions about PdfStamper and OCG also led to new functionality. And I would like to add much more! But there are only 24 hours in a day, and too many are spent on answering questions that could have been avoided. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Do you like iText? Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar
