So your original suggestion of wrapping the template in an image would center the template automatically on the page? If so do this seem like a good practice as I may be doing this to hundreds of legal documents...
Thanks. >From: "Bruno Lowagie (iText)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Post all your questions about iText here ><[email protected]> >To: Post all your questions about iText here ><[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Coordinates of a PdfTemplate! >Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:24:40 +0100 > >Rick DeFazio wrote: > > Thanks... no other way to find out the original coords of the imported >page > > then? > >Please read page 520 of the book: >It explains that form XObjects (we call them PdfTemplates, >because the word form might confuse people) are referenced >in the page content stream like this: > >q 1 0 0 1 0 0 cm /Xf1 Do Q >q 1 0 0 -1 0 842 cm /Xf1 Do Q >q 1 0 0 1 100 400 cm /Xf1 Do Q >q 0 -2 2 0 100 400 cm /Xf1 Do Q > >You could try to derive the coordinates from the values between >the q and the cm (these are elements of a transformation matrix). >However, this may not be sufficient: this transformation could >be part of an other transformation, in which case the math to >get the correct coordinates gets even more difficult. > >If Eric has read the book, he already knew this. >He knows how to get the page stream because that too is >explained in the book. If he has read chapter 18, he even >knows how to manipulate a PDF at the object level... > >br, >Bruno > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share >your >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >_______________________________________________ >iText-questions mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ _________________________________________________________________ Your Space. Your Friends. Your Stories. Share your world with Windows Live Spaces. http://spaces.live.com/?mkt=en-ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
