Thomas Hauk wrote: > I had a single huge method generating these PDFs and it was working > fine. However, I decided to refactor the 200+ line function into > multiple functions, and now I've hit a compile error in my > (refactored) method that should return a PdfTemplate, because it > requires a PdfWriter.
That's a totally different question. You were attacking iText by saying something that sounded as: "it is stupid that I need a writer to get a template." > Instead of trying to understand what I am doing You didn't say what you are doing. You should ask questions like this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html In any case, I wrote a large part of iText, and I don't understand the problem based on your description. The way I see it: you had something that worked, and you broke it. You broke it because you made a design error. IMO this isn't really a question about iText, but rather about design. I don't understand why you can't provide a writer to the method that returns a template. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
