Re: [iText-questions] API status of low-level PDF text rendering classes

2006-11-09 Thread Paulo Soares
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:51 AM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] API status of low-level PDF > text rendering classes > > Damien Drix wrote: > > > Maybe a simple wrapper around those > > classes, which

Re: [iText-questions] API status of low-level PDF text rendering classes

2006-11-09 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Damien Drix wrote: > Maybe a simple wrapper around those > classes, which would just chop Phrases into line fragments of the > requested widths, and allow for drawing those fragments to the writer, > would be less error-prone ? I could probably write and contribute it if > you think it's a goo

Re: [iText-questions] API status of low-level PDF text rendering classes

2006-11-09 Thread Damien Drix
Bruno Lowagie (iText) a écrit : > Damien Drix wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> In my application, I needed greater control over the rendering of text >> than the standard high-level iText API allows. For example, I had to >> support several line spacing modes, text wrapping around an arbitrary >> sha

Re: [iText-questions] API status of low-level PDF text rendering classes

2006-11-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Stanton Fisque wrote: > Could always add a couple parallel adapter classes that expose the low level > stuff but leaves the core classes "as is". That would be preferable. ColumnText and MultiColumnText were created to have low-level access in a more programmer-friendly way. If there's some partic

Re: [iText-questions] API status of low-level PDF text rendering classes

2006-11-08 Thread Stanton Fisque
Could always add a couple parallel adapter classes that expose the low level stuff but leaves the core classes "as is". And publish it as a secondary jar file "for finer control in the hands of masters" :P == stanton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

Re: [iText-questions] API status of low-level PDF text rendering classes

2006-11-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie (iText)
Damien Drix wrote: > Hello, > > In my application, I needed greater control over the rendering of text > than the standard high-level iText API allows. For example, I had to > support several line spacing modes, text wrapping around an arbitrary > shape, etc. You can go a long way with ColumnT