Thank you, it's in the CVS. Paulo
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hellerud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 11:34 PM Subject: [iText-questions] PdfGraphics2D issue and solution forhorizontially scaled fonts > Hello, > > Issue: > The PdfGraphics2D.drawString() method doesn't support fonts with a > TextAttribute.WIDTH setting that does not equal 1.0f. > > History: > Most of the reports that I need to render are based on output originally > designed for a line printer with a 10, 12, 16.66 or 17.75 cpi width > font. Using the TextAttribute.WIDTH attribute and a mono-spaced True > Type font I am scaling the font height and width to do stuff like make a > font that is 8 points high by 16.66 cpi wide. > > I was using Book and Pageable objects to render the reports to a printer > or a preview component on the screen. When I added code to render the > Pageable objects to a PdfGraphics2D object the output looked horrible > because the TextAttribute.WIDTH font settings was ignored by the > PdfGraphics2D.drawString() method. > > Using the PdfGraphics2D.drawGlyphVector() would produce the correct > output, but size of the PDF output and the amount of memory required to > render a large report without throwing an OutOfMemoryError was > unacceptable. > > Solution: > Using itext-src-2.0.2 release, and I added the following lines to > PdfGraphics2D.java at line 374 (before "double width = 0;" of > PdfGraphics2D.drawString() method.) > > Float fontTextAttributeWidth = (Float) > font.getAttributes().get(TextAttribute.WIDTH); > fontTextAttributeWidth = (fontTextAttributeWidth == null) > ? TextAttribute.WIDTH_REGULAR > : fontTextAttributeWidth; > cb.setHorizontalScaling(100.0f / fontTextAttributeWidth); > > > John Hellerud ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ 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/
