Your components can be stored as individual PDFs. Your PdfWriter instance can get a PdfImportedPage from a PdfReader which reads your component PDFs. A PdfImportedPage is a special type of PdfTemplate. See the API documentation of these classes as well as Chapter 10 of the tutorial.
-Matt --- Andrew McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, now you've really got my attention. It kinda > sounds like I can > have the artsy folks do all their design work in > Illustrator > (available) and export as PDF. Now, of course, we > use Macintosh here > (for graphics as well as Java development) so > printing to PDF is always > an option. > > 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 > > -- > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ---- > > 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: Does your code > think in ink? You > > could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat > just for playing. What > > are you waiting for? > > > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en > > _______________________________________________ > > iText-questions mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Does your code > think in ink? > You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat > just for playing. > What are you waiting for? > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Does your code think in ink? You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing. What are you waiting for? http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
