Hi Darren,
On 27 July 2011 15:59, sesshomurai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My understanding is that you can create PDF documents with iText.
>
Correct.
> Certainly this is possible. PDF is for creating documents!
> This means that the PDF format must encode the presentation in a
> structured
> way. Otherwise, the PDF viewer cannot reproduce the document.
>
> Thus, it is structured and all the document information including
> text is represented in the PDF format.
>
Wrong again. There is no such thing as a paragraph, line, not even word in
PDF. Just bunches of characters written at some positions.
>From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Text)
"Text in PDF is represented by *text elements* in page content streams. A
text element specifies that *characters* should be drawn at certain
positions. The characters are specified using the *encoding* of a
selected *font
resource*."
Cheers,
alexis
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Got Input? Slashdot Needs You.
Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often.
Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey
_______________________________________________
iText-questions mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA.
Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference
to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/
Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples:
http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
