Hi Bruno, our user wants to "design" himself the layout of the final document using word or excel and then create a pdf with distiller or similar tools. The final document contains the skeleton of the application model with company images and some fixed data but a lot should be added at run time. That's there where my job would start from. Note that this layout would change very often, while data to insert are always quite te same. Could annotations fit into this design-update process ?
Giuseppe. Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote: > > beppecosta wrote: >> Hello, >> >> is there a way to scan a pdf for given string markers (like "#1", #2", or >> similar patterns) and get their x,y coordinates ? > > No, that would be a very bad design decision. > >> Step 2 would be to put some text or images or some other content right >> over >> these markers. > > Don't do it like that! > >> Or - are there some other suggestions - to automate this process ? > > Add an annotation; retrieve the coordinates of that annotation; > use those coordinates to add new content. > > Widget annotations (AcroForm fields) are potentially your best choice. > > Note: DO NOT EXPECT THE PDF CONTENT TO REFLOW!!! > PDF isn't a format for editing; read http://1t3xt.be/?X000406 > br, > Bruno > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: > http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Put-Replace-text-at-x%2Cy-tp24030945p24031487.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ 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 Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
