As Leonard said more information is needed. iText has fairly decent components to place text, tables and images but doesn't have any advanced layouting engine to place this components according to some rules. It also on depends how the creative design is described: you are doing it by looking at a sample or do you have an abstraction such as column at this position and image at that position? Maybe your layout can be described in simple but precise high level terms that a program would then translate to the iText components.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 20:15 Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development > At 12:06 PM -0800 3/17/03, Andrew McLaughlin wrote: > >In my efforts to evaluate iText as a PDF API, I'm finding that going > >from a creative design (like from an Art Director) to Java code, and > >making it look even remotely close, is an arduous process. > > It can indeed. > > This is usually better solved by having the creative person > do their work in a GUI editor of some fashion (Illustrator, > CorelDraw, etc.) and then having that exported in a form that you can > work with (SVG, EPS, PDF, etc.) to convert to PDF (with necessary > substitutions). Or starting with a PDF template that you then amend > as necessary. > > > >So far, through experimentation, I have been able to come roughly > >close to what the art director wants to see, but not near close > >enough to get any sort of signoff. > > > > Perhaps you need to give us more information about what they > want and what you are having problems delivering...Example PDF's > would be helpful. > > > LDR > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) > 215-629-0789 (fax) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! > Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
