No, the JavaDoc for that method isn't all that helpful. Sadly, it's not
practical to go into the kind of detail that would be Really Helpful every time
a method can take a transformation matrix... there are quite a few:
addImage (2 of the overrides)
addTemplate (ditto)
concatCTM
setTextMatrix (which has the most complete description... odd place for it)
Incidentally, the order of those parameters are identical to the order used by
AffineTransform in various places, and the order of the elements in the
double[] returned by its getMatrix() method.
I've used AffineTransform a few times to build my matrixes ("rotate around This
Spot" is handy) to be passed to one of those functions (though I don't recall
which off the top of my head).
Overrides for those functions that actually took an AffineTransform might be
handy, though all they'd do is getMatrix and pass it off to the "normal"
version. What's one more override, right?
A consideration that might prevent this (in an area I'm none to familiar with):
AffineTransform is in the "awt" package which could cause problems in UI-free
installations... but then I'd expect PdfContentByte.getGraphics() would run
into similar issues. As I've never seen anyone mention such an issue on the
list over the last several years, I'm gonna guess it's not all that big a
problem.
--Mark Storer
Senior Software Engineer
Cardiff.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Oliveras [mailto:dolive...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 4:43 AM
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Watermark with rotated PDF
There is nothing wrong with wrapping the PDFTemplate inside an Image, I simply
wanted to know how works the addTemplate() method.
I bought the book today, so now I can use it to get more information on iText,
I'll read the pages hou recomended.
Thank you very much for your time and Help.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:04 AM, 1T3XT info < i...@1t3xt.info> wrote:
Daniel Oliveras wrote:
> Thankyou very much,
>
> That information is not present on the API documentation and without the
> transformation matrix info it is practically impossible to perform any
> action.
What's wrong with wrapping the PdfTemplate inside an Image?
That solves all your problems.
And NO: that information is not present in the API documentation,
but there are two pages about it in iText in Action (p314 and 315).
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