Hi, Thanks for that, i think i have figured out the issue... The two following blocks of code, although they seem like they should act identically to me, don't.
This works as expected (with the extra border i don't really need) _cbr.setShadingFill(axialPattern); _cbr.rectangle(element.getPositionx(),PageSize.A4.getHeight()-element.getPos itiony()-element.getHeight(),element.getWidth(),element.getHeight()); _cbr.fillStroke(); However this doesn't (i got no background colour at all) Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle(element.getPositionx(),PageSize.A4.getHeight()-element.getPosition y(),element.getPositionx()+element.getWidth(),PageSize.A4.getHeight()-elemen t.getPositiony()-element.getHeight() ); _cbr.setShadingFill(axialPattern); _cbr.rectangle(rectangle); _cbr.fillStroke(); Is there a reason why the two of these should be different ? The only difference i can see is the required co-ordinate sets required to get the same result, i.e _cbr.rectangle(float,float,float,float) required x,y and width, height While _cbr.rectangle(rectangle) uses x0,y0,x1,y1 Is there a difference ? Really i don't care which one i use, however i nede to be able to remove the big black border from the rectangle in the first example. Thanks again for all your help, it is much appreciated ! Regards Damian -----Original Message----- From: 1T3XT info [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 7 December 2008 11:56 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Gradient Background Behind ColumnText Damian Nave wrote: > Any help would be appreciated I'd start by using saveState() and restoreState() as advised in the book. As documented, the fill color is used as text color (the color used to fill the glyph shapes). -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
