Can I then bring this PDF into an iText document and then add my dynamic stuff on top of it? Are there code samples of this in the tutorial (that I obviously overlooked)? :)
Thanks, Andrew
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 07:18 AM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
At 2:41 PM -0800 3/17/03, Andrew McLaughlin wrote:The layout will be something done in, say, Photoshop.
Why is it that designers insist on using the wrong tools for the job?!?!
Can you get them to use Illustrator instead? That way they can save the files as PDF's that you can then use as templates (since they will be nice vector artwork).
However, the PDF document will be the result of a user visiting a web site, making a series of choices. And all those choices will be composed into a PDF in the form of photographs, graphics and text.
But those elements then go into some form of "template" right - an ad, poster, business card, etc. The "background" elements don't change - only the content, right??
As a go between, if I could just have greater control over the exact placement of each graphic element, photograph and text, my job should suddenly become that much the easier.
PdfContentByte - that gives you explicit placement of elements.
As for the desire for clipping path, I was hoping to break the PDF design down into moveable components such that they may be easily relocatable within a document, and shared among documents. I'm just trying to be as OO as I can about this design. :)
Your idea is quite solid - but I don't see any need for clipping paths to accomplish this.
Leonard
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