I am generating a PDF report that has mixed landscape and portrait styles
for various pages.
For some pages, I'm importing the raw PDF of a page and drawing on top of
it. For those pages:
1. Why is the origin 0,0 on the bottom left for text and graphics?? I was
able to compensate
for this for graphics by doing math (translate to doc height - (x +
image size)) but doesn't
seem to be all that easy for a font.
2. I attempted to understand the translation matrix but can't get it to
make the origin top/left
3. It appears that I can't set font styles for a contentbyte.showText or
showTextAligned--is
this true? I need to overlay a bold font in some cases, maybe even an
underlined one. I'm
trying to do this with Arial, and it doesn't seem to take the font's
style or size into account
when I ask for the basefont (which is what PdfContentByte requires).
Basically I got seduced into this library from the simple layout engine, but
when I started using the absolute layout I got confused about these items.
It's a great library, but I'm just trying to use the
absolute positioning and am getting lost. The translation matrix stuff
seems like voodoo for me
(admittedly a math idiot) and all I want to do is think top/left for my
coordinate system without
doing a ton of work. Are these simple questions? I didn't find anything in
the tutorial or examples
that would help.
Thanks in advance,
Ken Rimple
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