Heh, I like the way you guys think! But how the heck are you seeing that text? What I see is compressed.
Anyway, I first tried an idea stemmed from the other email and assigned
the font in use to the chunk that is containing the DottedLineSeperator.
Hoping that would give it the proper glyph spacing.
While when viewed in pitstop I did notice that the selection of the page
number text does now correlate with where the text is viewed at. However,
it did not fix the problem with using other versions or rips.
Next I tried the white dot trick below, that didn't seem to do it either.
But the method calls used were a little different than below but I am just
guessing that is due to the .net port being slightly different in it's
naming.
I updated from 5.0.2 to 5.0.5 and created this quick test run below and
get the attached resulting output (yeah yeah , I know, it's VB. Sorry).
Current;y as a work around I am doing a method that uses getWidthPoint on
three chunks while increment the middle one in a loop until the full width
is correct and then drawing the line on the middle one as a generic tag.
Not as pretty looking and it really slows the process down when it gets to
the index at the back of the book. Oh well.
I do appreciate the help though. I think you guys know the internals of
PDF's better than Adobe :-)
Sub Main()
Dim d As New Document
Dim w As PdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(d, New FileStream(
"c:\DottedLineSeperatorTest.pdf", FileMode.Create))
d.Open()
w.Open()
With w.DirectContent
.SaveState()
.BeginText()
.SetFontAndSize(BaseFont.CreateFont, 1)
.SetColorFill(BaseColor.WHITE)
.ShowText(".")
.EndText()
.RestoreState()
End With
Dim f As Font = FontFactory.GetFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, 12)
For i As Integer = 1 To 30
Dim p As New Paragraph("line " & i, f)
Dim c As New Chunk(New iTextSharp.text.pdf.draw.
DottedLineSeparator)
c.Font = f
p.Add(c)
p.Add(New Chunk(i, f))
d.Add(p)
Next
d.Close()
w.Close()
End Sub
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12/02/2010 11:16 AM
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Okay, here's some of the relevant content stream from "toc_sample_ok"
BT - begin text
36 751 Td - move to the start of the next line with the given
offsets
0 -16 Td - err... okay.
/F6 12 Tf - 12 point, font resource "F6"
(Additional Benefits Contact List)Tj - display the given text
/F9 12 Tf - 12 point, font resource F9
[-31165]TJ - use kerning to adjust the location of the text a whole
bunch
/F6 12 Tf - 12 point, font F6
(9)Tj - display the given text.
0 0 Td - move to the start...
0 -16 Td - move to the start...
Okay. That's funky, but it works. Ish. And here's the "optimized"
version:
BT
/T1_0 12 Tf - they change the font resource name. No big deal.
0 Tc 0 Tw 0 Ts 100 Tz 0 Tr 36 735 Td - set a bunch of defaults
(Additional Benefits Contact List9)Tj - never switched to
the other font, never adjusted kerning. Oops.
0 -16 TD - next
line, with a tweak
(National Contracted Facility/Vendors10)Tj - ditto, never switched
fonts, never adjusted kerning.
I suspect that becuase F9 is never used to draw anything, "optimization"
throws it out and (erroneously) eats its kerning info. That's a good
theory, and I'd wager a beer on it, but it really doesn't help us to solve
the problem... OR DOES IT?! Okay, ugly hack time.
F9 happens to be helvetica. You need to draw something, ANYTHING, with
that font. Draw a background-colored period at 0,0... whatever. In doing
so, you'll force the optimizer to not discard that font, hopefully
preserving the kerning info and keeping your text where it belongs:
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
cb.saveState(); // don't change anything that comes after our little hack
job here
cb.beginText();
cb.setFontAndSize( BaseFont.CreateFont(), 1 ); // the default CreateFont
returns winAnsi Helvetica, convenient.
cb.setFillColor( Color.WHITE );
cb.drawText('."); // " " might work too, but an overly clever optimizer
might remove it.
cb.endText();
cb.restoreState(); // clean up our mess. For every saveState, you MUST
have a restoreState()
--Mark Storer
Senior Software Engineer
Cardiff.com
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From: jason.l.pel...@rrd.com [mailto:jason.l.pel...@rrd.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 10:22 AM
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Help with DottedLineSeperator.
Sure thing,
The attachment toc_sample_ok.pdf views fine for me in using Acrobat 7. It
does not view fine in 5. Other people see different things depending on
their version but I don't have a comprehensive list as to how each version
reacts.
The second attachment, toc_sample_optimized.pdf, is the result of
optimizing in Acrobat 7. Seems to only get effected like this if the
option 'Convert smooth lines to curves' is selected. However, it is
similar to how other versions view with the two texts concatenated as if
there is no dotted line. Also, as I mentioned before, some versions (as
well as the Rip's on press) view with the page number text at about a half
way point.
I do notice when trying to select the page numbers in toc_sample_ok.pdf
using Ptistop that they are actually coordinated next to the listing text
but somehow transformed(?) to be viewed over toward the right.
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Jason Leland Pelzel | Digital Print IT | RR Donnelley
5500 12th Avenue East | Shakopee, MN 55337 | (: 952.833.3473 | È:
651.398.6188 | Ê: 952.942.8933 | *: jason.l.pel...@rrd.com
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12/01/2010 10:51 AM
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We really need to see the PDF.
--Mark Storer
Senior Software Engineer
Cardiff.com
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From: Jason L Pelzel [mailto:jason.l.pel...@rrd.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 1:44 PM
To: iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [iText-questions] Help with DottedLineSeperator.
Hi,
I am using the DottedLineSeperator to build a table of contents (.net
version). The result looks fine in Acrobat 7. It also prints file if
direct from Acrobat 7.
However, if viewed in other versions, ripped on the printer, or optimized
from 7 the page number loose their position. Sometimes the are butted up
against the left hand text. Other times the are somewhere in the middle of
the line.
Any hints? Below is the basic code that I am using.
Private Shared Sub ToDocument(ByVal ti As TOCItem, ByVal d As Document,
ByVal f As Font, ByVal level As Integer)
If Not ti.Ignore Then
Dim p As New Paragraph
p.IndentationLeft = level * 20
p.Add(New Phrase(ti.Value, f))
p.Add(New Chunk(New
iTextSharp.text.pdf.draw.DottedLineSeparator))
p.Add(New Chunk(ti.PageNumber, f))
d.Add(p)
level += 1
End If
For Each k As String In ti.SubItems.Keys
TOCItem.ToDocument(ti.SubItems(k), d, f, level)
Next
End Sub
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