RE: [iText-questions] Re: transparency and itext

2003-02-28 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: Carsten Hammer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 21:06 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] Re: transparency and itext > > > > Leonard Rosenthol schrieb: > > I would be

[iText-questions] Re: transparency and itext

2003-02-27 Thread Carsten Hammer
Leonard Rosenthol schrieb: I would be VERY surprised to find a printer that perform transparency flattening - since none of the current printer description languages (PS, PCL, HPGL, etc.) support the concept of transparency. that's why Acrobat has to perform the flattening BEFORE sending

[iText-questions] Re: transparency and itext

2003-02-26 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 7:45 PM +0100 2/26/03, Carsten Hammer wrote: It actually takes place in Acrobat, but yes, depending on what type of printer you have OR the complexity of the transparency effect. Ok, in some of the printers of the company I work for this takes place inside of the printer. I would be VER

[iText-questions] Re: transparency and itext

2003-02-26 Thread Carsten Hammer
Hi Leonard, Leonard Rosenthol schrieb: At 4:00 PM +0100 2/25/03, Carsten Hammer wrote: But if you print them you see your printer rasterizing a long time if it is able to do it at all. It actually takes place in Acrobat, but yes, depending on what type of printer you have OR the complexit

[iText-questions] Re: transparency and itext

2003-02-25 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 4:00 PM +0100 2/25/03, Carsten Hammer wrote: Why do you they would be slow? Just try them out. The Acrobat SDK contains a Watermark plugin example. You can easily add transparent text using it. You can indeed. It's a nice sample. But if you print them you see your printer rasterizing a

[iText-questions] Re: transparency and itext

2003-02-25 Thread Carsten Hammer
Leonard Rosenthol schrieb: At 10:29 PM +0100 2/24/03, Carsten Hammer wrote: Does itext allow one to setup the transparency of a text? Do you the Acrobat 5 full transparency model? If so, no it doesn't. Yes I mean exactly this. The transparency color model that Adobe introduced with the