On Friday 29 December 2006 11:07, GAMBELLI Raffaele wrote: > It is true that the main purpose of Itext is with PDF and so, RTF comes > always after like a dog'tail which follows the head, I believe that itext > should be a dog with two heads, but it is only my personal opinion. The differences between PDF and RTF have three causes: 1.) Bugs. As in this case, the cause is a bug in how the RTF handles a certain case (that I overlooked somewhere in development). 2.) Oversights. PDF generation is under active development, whereas the RTF part gets worked on when I have nothing else to do. 3.) Format differences. The PDF and RTF formats are quite different at the lowest level. While PDF acts as a very precise page description format, RTF can be understood as markup that only gets rendered when viewed. This basic difference means that some things are just not possible in RTF.
The fact of the matter is that I haven't worked in a job where iText (and especially the RTF part) is used, for close to three years. This means that I have no personal need to work on it and so the main impetus are people with either bugs or additional requirements. I try to fix bugs quickly, but iText just isn't very high on my list of priorities and so very little happens from my side. The end result is that the RTF part will continue to lag, until I either find a job where I can work on the RTF generation or somebody else steps in. Greetings, Mark -- Bridge ahead. Pay troll. My GPG public key is available at: http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~mhall/data/security/MarkHall.asc
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