Hi Bruno,
Bruno Lowagie wrote:
Hello all,
iText1.2.4 has now been released for a while, so I turned it in to a so-called 'stable' release iText1.3. The next version by Paulo will then be 1.3.1.
The main reason for this release are the new tutorial chapters. I made some small changes and some examples will only work with iText1.3.
I won't sum up the new chapters (there are too many of them), just take a look at the TOC:
http://itext.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
One remark to the paragraph with eps. You should not use "Embedding PostScript" and "Encapsulated Postscript" like it was the same thing. These are two totally different things. "Embedding PostScript" can be used to add stapling information (for printers able to do it) or printer version information (that appears on the printout) to the pdf file using embedded plain postscript. itext supports it via XObjects. "Encapsulated Postscript" is converted to plain pdf using itexts input filter.
I guess you know this but reading this paragraph seems to be not making it very clear imho.
Parts I to IV are completed (except for some less important chapters), so now you should know all about ColumnText, OCG, Fonts, etc... I haven't had the time to check my English and to see if all the links are correct, but I'm sure you will do that for me and post me a message if I have to change something.
The major change in 1.3 is the fact that iText.jar can now be executed with java -jar iText.jar
This is great. Would you think it could be a good idea to host tools as beanshell scripts at your itext site? We would be able then to implement a way of automatic download of additional scripts in the jnlp application for configurable sites hosting these scripts..
If you do this, a toolbox will open. The tools are very basic, but they should give you an idea of some of the possibilities iText offers.
I also made a jnlp file so that the iText Toolbox could be used as a Java Web Start application, but I ran into some problems: I see the file selector doesn't work and my site doesn't define the mimetype for JNLP files yet. I hope I can fix this soon.
There are two ways to fix the *not working* file selector:
1) use the javax.jnlp.FileOpenService 2) sign your application and use <security> <all-permissions /> </security> in your jnlp file (to allow everything).
examples for 2):
http://home.t-online.de/home/carsten.hammer/PDFView.jnlp http://home.t-online.de/home/carsten.hammer/PDFAnalyzer.jnlp
Thank you very much for this, Best regards, Carsten
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