Re: [iText-questions] v2.x continuity
And for what... the price for a license of iText? What corporation would balance the potential for multi-hundreds of thousands of dollar lawsuit against $2000 or whatever it might be. It will cost the company more than $2000 in legal fees to review the LGPL and its use in iText. The problem here is that iText is much more expensive if someone want to ship it with a native client application installed on several thousand computers where the PDF printing is just a little feature of thousands of others. It would be no problem to pay 2000$ for a general license but the current license scheme is ridiculous because it would force license buyers to report number of client installations back to you which are then used to come up with the amount of money to pay. That's simply not acceptable for such a small library. For example the xPDF library which renders PDF on any imaginable platform (and contains much more complicated code than iText) is a one-pay 1500$ lib with no further restrictions (OEM). If the same would apply for iText I would be happy to pay but with the current licensing scheme: no thanks... Another thing to keep in mind: the responses on this list on bug reports or questions are usually one of these: 1. Buy the book without any further explanation or just a short hint where to find something 2. You are using the old version, we won't help you because of that 3. Sometimes no response at all This behavior does not match the price point of your lib and really does not encourages one to buy. Just my 2c, Campus -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ 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/
Re: [iText-questions] v2.x continuity
xPDF library which renders PDF on any imaginable platform (and contains much more complicated code than iText) [Erik Pfingsten] Have you actually looked at the source code for both projects. They both looked pretty complicated to me. Your statement that xPDF contains much more complicated code than iText is spurious at best. Not to mention, xPDF is (gross over-generalization) for viewing PDFs, iText is for creating PDFs. Not saying one is simpler than the other, but its like comparing LCD Screens and Digital Cameras (I would have said apples and oranges, but that seems s 20th century :-) Yes I have worked with both sources. I have written several fixed for iText and also fixed some stuff in xPDF (which is C++). Rendering PDF is really much more complex than writing PDF. Just try to find a PDF renderer somewhere that actually works... AFAIK there are only two libs available that really work: xPDF and Adobes library. All the others are either horribly slow, or buggy. Try to render encrypted Unicode PDFs with Korean text, large bitmaps or similar content to see incredible differences. I was trying to say that writing a PDF generator is not rocket science (because there is a well written PDF doc and it's simply a text generator) and writing a renderer is much harder. Compare that with XML. Writing XML is not hard, parsing is (without using any lib). That's not a negative point about iText, it should just illustrate that the price point of iText is IMHO too high for small companies. is a one-pay 1500$ lib with no further restrictions (OEM). If the same would apply for iText I would be happy to pay but with the current licensing scheme: no thanks... [Erik Pfingsten] Looking at xPDF's purchase page (http://www.glyphandcog.com/buy.html), you need developer licenses AND Run-Time licenses. As I said we bought an OEM license for ~1500$ for unlimited distribution and source code. No reason to count client installations. [Erik Pfingsten] You say xPDF has $1500 license for OEM's? Have you actually contacted iText Commercial to see what they would charge? Maybe they have a large volume OEM type license available too (oh wait whats this? http://itextpdf.com/terms-of-use/index.php). We would need licence of type 2, 3a, 3b. According to http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net/msg50873.h tml you have to pay 3000$ for 250 client installations (which would only cover our need for type 3b). In the end for our need this seems to be a five figure number and is therefore out of any relation to the given value. Not to mention that you would have to build extra software just to count client installations and send those numbers back. From my point of view any license that forces you to count client installations or users or similar things is simply not working for boxed software. 1. Buy the book without any further explanation or just a short hint where to find something [Erik Pfingsten] or a pointer to the source code examples on the website that you can look at, not to mention the api documentation, sample chapters. Oh, and more often than not, an actual solution in the email response For example http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net/msg52731.h tml Usually you don't get a link to an example or the documentation just a hint where in the book the topic could be found. 2. You are using the old version, we won't help you because of that [Erik Pfingsten] Last time I checked, Microsoft doesnt offer support for Windows 3.1 eithe So iText 2.x (which was the current version a year ago) is like Win3.1 (which died 15 years ago) for you? 3. Sometimes no response at all [Erik Pfingsten] really, Ive never seen a question that wasnt answered at some point http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net/msg53101.h tml http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net/msg53017.h tml http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net/msg52958.h tml http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net/msg52682.h tml This behavior does not match the price point of your lib and really does not encourages one to buy. [Erik Pfingsten] My understanding has always been that this list is for support of the free iText (for lack of a better way to put it). I believe that Commercial users (companies that buy licenses) get priority support through a support contact. But it makes a bad impression if the free mailing list is treated like a normal OSS mailing list but is meant to promote the expensive commercial product. But to put it bluntly to say that the responders on this list are not helpful (which is the essence of your argument), is a load of crap I did not say that at all. I just said that a company that wants to sell their product needs a professional support list as well (even if it's for the free part). Selling a book as an answer for a list question
Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License
Hi, The license fees were magnitudes beyond the complete project budgets with very strict obligations. I am really willing to obtain a license and to pay several 100 $ for it and I find it absolutely ok for the developers to earn money with their fantastic library. But: The current license fees are affordable for big industries only. I already thought about stopping to use iText or to stick with 2.1.7. After all,within my programms this is only a small component for generating reports in order to show the results of computation processes. I think, there are a lot of small projects and developers who are in the same situation. If there is another way, I would appreciate this very much, and as I said: I really like your lib and I am really willing to pay for it. But I can't invest 150% of the whole budgets on the reporting component only, and I am not willing to report the number of distribution number several times a year. Have you ever thought about single developer licenses with no fees for redistribution? That's an interesting topic. Just being curious: What's the amount to pay for a commercial iText license? We had the same problem and decided to fork iText 2.1.7. We are also heavily working on that base trying to refactor all these bad little things out of the code and applying additional fixes. I would happily pay some money to get a lib and support but with the currently non-existent professional support for iText asking for money does not represent the state of the project at least to me. Just my 2c, Campus -- ___ 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/
Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with SnowLeopard font
Hi everyone, I debugged the problem and I was able to locate the bug in iText. The cmap parsing code in TrueTypeFont.readCMaps() does not handle Mac Unicode ttf correctly. Adding that fixes the problem for me. Thanks for your help, Christoph Wagner -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/
Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with SnowLeopard font
Hi everyone,
today I revisited this problem and I was able to reproduce the problem
on Windows with a small block of code, mostly copied from the iText
examples (http://1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=exampleid=138):
--snip
Document document = new Document ();
try
{
PdfWriter.getInstance (document, new FileOutputStream
(c:/ttf.pdf));
document.open ();
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont (C:\\LucidaGrande.ttc,0,
BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
com.lowagie.text.Font font = new com.lowagie.text.Font (bf, 12);
document.add (new Paragraph (This is an umlaut: --äöü--,
font));
String[] encoding = bf.getCodePagesSupported ();
for (int i = 0; i encoding.length; i++)
{
document.add (new Paragraph (encoding[ + i + ] = +
encoding[i]));
}
document.add (new Paragraph (Full font names:));
String[][] name = bf.getFullFontName ();
for (String[] aName : name)
{
document.add (new Paragraph (aName[3] + ( + aName[0] + ;
+ aName[1] + ; + aName[2] + )));
}
}
catch (Exception ignored)
{
}
document.close ();
--snap
If I run this code using the Lucida Grande ttc file (copied to
Windows) that comes from a SnowLeopard installation the generated pdf
file (attached) misses the umlaut characters. If I now select the
empty space in Acrobat and copy that to the clipboard and then paste
into some text editor I magically see the umlauts
Any idea where the problem might be?
Best Regards,
Christoph Wagner
ttf.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
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Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with SnowLeopard font
Hi Leonard,
What if you switch from 1252 to Identity-H encoding? Bet that
will work.
Nope. This creates a PDF that shows some awkward Unicode signs like
the promille symbol, the ^ and a third symbol instead of the
umlauts I also tested other ttc files a few minutes ago and the
ones I tested have all the same problem, so to me it looks like iText
has a problem handling ttc files in some cases.
But on another note, the embedding on that font is REALLY WEIRD!
It is only embedding a subset of actual glyph data BUT the rest
of the font information for the other glyphs is present (widths,
encodings, etc.).
Doesn't sound good...
Best,
Christoph Wagner
Leonard
-Original Message-
From: Christoph Wagner [mailto:cwag...@canto.com]
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 8:20 AM
To: 'Post all your questions about iText here'
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with SnowLeopard
font
Hi everyone,
today I revisited this problem and I was able to reproduce the
problem on Windows with a small block of code, mostly copied from
the iText examples
(http://1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=exampleid=138):
--snip
Document document = new Document ();
try
{
PdfWriter.getInstance (document, new FileOutputStream
(c:/ttf.pdf));
document.open ();
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont (C:\\LucidaGrande.ttc,0,
BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
com.lowagie.text.Font font = new com.lowagie.text.Font (bf,
12);
document.add (new Paragraph (This is an umlaut: --äöü--,
font));
String[] encoding = bf.getCodePagesSupported ();
for (int i = 0; i encoding.length; i++)
{
document.add (new Paragraph (encoding[ + i + ] = +
encoding[i]));
}
document.add (new Paragraph (Full font names:));
String[][] name = bf.getFullFontName ();
for (String[] aName : name)
{
document.add (new Paragraph (aName[3] + ( + aName[0] +
;
+ aName[1] + ; + aName[2] + )));
}
}
catch (Exception ignored)
{
}
document.close ();
--snap
If I run this code using the Lucida Grande ttc file (copied to
Windows) that comes from a SnowLeopard installation the generated
pdf file (attached) misses the umlaut characters. If I now select
the empty space in Acrobat and copy that to the clipboard and
then paste into some text editor I magically see the umlauts
Any idea where the problem might be?
Best Regards,
Christoph Wagner
-
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Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2D onSnowLeopard
Hi Paulo, thanks for your reply. Does that font work outside PdfGraphics2D with a plain BaseFont? What do you mean by that? Should I create a PDF by hand using that font? I haven't tried that. The other glyphs are printed correctly and seem to be of the right font. Only the umlauts are not being handled. I even looked at the font definition stream in the generated PDF and as far as I understand it the widths are correctly calculated and inserted and the used characters are valid. The attached document shows the phenomenon. This is the font object from the incorrect PDF: 1 0 obj/LastChar 252/BaseFont/MUSGQI+LucidaGrande/Type/Font/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding/Su btype/TrueType/FontDescriptor 6 0 R/Widths[316 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 316 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 749 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 512 0 557 0 0 0 0 0 584 0 0 0 0 0 0 409 509 374 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 632 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 794 0 0 0 0 0 331 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 614]/FirstChar 32 Printing with the same font definition to a real Graphics2D object prints out everything correctly. I am really out of ideas how to address this on my side. If you need any more information, just let me know and I will try to provide as much as can. Best, Christoph Wagner Cumulus 2.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/
Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problemwith PdfGraphics2D onSnowLeopard
Hi, AFAIK WinAnsi contains german umlauts. When you look at the generated widths for the individual glyphs the offset seem to be correct. For example the last shown width at offset 252 (which is 614) maps exactly to ANSI umlaut ü (http://www.alanwood.net/demos/ansi.html). So for me it looks not like an encoding problem. But if I want to try that, how do I configure another encoding when generating the PDF with the PDFGraphics2D object? Thanks for your help, Christoph Wagner -Original Message- From: Mark Storer [mailto:msto...@autonomy.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:37 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problemwith PdfGraphics2D onSnowLeopard 1 0 obj/LastChar 252/BaseFont/MUSGQI+LucidaGrande/Type/Font/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding/Su btype/TrueType/FontDescriptor 6 0 R/Widths[316 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 316 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 749 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 512 0 557 0 0 0 0 0 584 0 0 0 0 0 0 409 509 374 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 632 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 794 0 0 0 0 0 331 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 614]/FirstChar 32 Bingo. You're creating the font with WinAnsiEncoding, which is a single byte font that doesn't have a code for umlaut. Identity-H always works, try that instead. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com #include disclaimer typedef std::DisclaimerCardiff DisCard; --- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/
Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problemwith PdfGraphics2D onSnowLeopard
Hi, Hmm. Probably not the encoding then, no. Still, if you want to give Identity-H a shot, you'd have to... Thank you for pointing me into that direction. I will give it a try next week (I don't have a SL machine available this weekend) and post back the results. Disabling the embedding is not really an option as the PDF might be read on a platform where the font is not available. I just noticed that the font contains all information in the resource fork. Could this be a problem for iText? Is iText able to read the resource fork to extract font information? Best, Christoph Wagner (checks docs) Ah yes. If you want to control awt.Font-BaseFont conversion, you need to customize a FontMapper, and use one of the createGraphics2D() overrides that will accept it as a parameter. Looking at the source to DefaultFontMapper (FontMapper is an interface), I see that CP1252 (winansi) is hardcoded as the requested encoding: (At line 167 of http://itext.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/itext/trunk/src/core/com/itextp df/text/pdf/DefaultFontMapper.java?revision=4141view=markup) I also see that you can write BaseFontParameters into a mapper prior to using it. So you should be able to whip up your own DefaultFontMapper, and add a new BaseFontParamters instance for LucidaWhastis. Something Like This: FontMapper myMapper = new DefaultFontMapper(); BaseFontParamters fontParams= new BaseFontParameters( LucidaWhatsis ); fontParams.encoding = BaseFont.IDENTITY_H; myMapper.putName( LucidaWhatsis, fontParams ); Graphics2D myGraphics = myPdfContent.createGraphics( wid, hei, myMapper ); Another option would be to disable embedding (with fontParams.embeeded=false) **instead**of** changing the encoding. Identity-H fonts are always embedded subsets, and override the requested embedding. You've got an embedded subset there, so there could be funkiness as a result. It's theoretically possible that the double-dot-u needs a regular 'u' present in order to draw, which is in fact missing from this subset. OTOH, If that were the case I'd have expected this sort of problem to crop up fairly regularly in countries where such characters are used. YMMV. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com #include disclaimer typedef std::DisclaimerCardiff DisCard; --- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/
Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2D onSnowLeopard
Hi Paulo, I just tried to copy that font to my windows box when I noticed that the font contains all information in the resource fork. Could this be a problem for iText? Is iText able to read the resource fork to extract font information? Best, Christoph Wagner -Original Message- From: Paulo Soares [mailto:psoa...@glintt.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:41 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2D onSnowLeopard Is the font available for downloading? (I don't have a MAC, only Windows) Paulo -Original Message- From: Christoph Wagner [mailto:cwag...@canto.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:22 AM To: 'Post all your questions about iText here' Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2D onSnowLeopard Hi Paulo, thanks for your reply. Does that font work outside PdfGraphics2D with a plain BaseFont? What do you mean by that? Should I create a PDF by hand using that font? I haven't tried that. The other glyphs are printed correctly and seem to be of the right font. Only the umlauts are not being handled. I even looked at the font definition stream in the generated PDF and as far as I understand it the widths are correctly calculated and inserted and the used characters are valid. The attached document shows the phenomenon. This is the font object from the incorrect PDF: 1 0 obj/LastChar 252/BaseFont/MUSGQI+LucidaGrande/Type/Font/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding/Su btype/TrueType/FontDescriptor 6 0 R/Widths[316 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 316 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 749 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 512 0 557 0 0 0 0 0 584 0 0 0 0 0 0 409 509 374 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 632 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 794 0 0 0 0 0 331 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 614]/FirstChar 32 Printing with the same font definition to a real Graphics2D object prints out everything correctly. I am really out of ideas how to address this on my side. If you need any more information, just let me know and I will try to provide as much as can. Best, Christoph Wagner Aviso Legal: Esta mensagem i destinada exclusivamente ao destinatario. Pode conter informagco confidencial ou legalmente protegida. A incorrecta transmissco desta mensagem nco significa a perca de confidencialidade. Se esta mensagem for recebida por engano, por favor envie-a de volta para o remetente e apague-a do seu sistema de imediato. I proibido a qualquer pessoa que nco o destinatario de usar, revelar ou distribuir qualquer parte desta mensagem. Disclaimer: This message is destined exclusively to the intended receiver. It may contain confidential or legally protected information. The incorrect transmission of this message does not mean the loss of its confidentiality. If this message is received by mistake, please send it back to the sender and delete it from your system immediately. It is forbidden to any person who is not the intended receiver to use, distribute or copy any part of this message. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/
Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2DonSnowLeopard
Thank you for testing the ttf file. The file in SL is a ttc file which I was unable to find on the net and I am not surprised after learning that the ttc font uses the resource fork which only works on Mac where the font is always available. If Java and because of that iText is unable to read the font correctly which font is then embedded into the document? Does iText support the ttc format at all? I checked the font in leopard and there LucidaGrande is stored as a dfont where the font information is stored in the file data fork which obviously seem to work. Darn Mac people Resource forks really must die Thank you for your help, Christoph Wagner (preferring any other operating system over Macs) -Original Message- From: Paulo Soares [mailto:psoa...@glintt.com] Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 12:08 AM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2DonSnowLeopard Does Java support reading the resource fork? iText only knows about regular fonts with all the information in a single file. I downloaded LucidaGrande.ttf for Windows and it worked. This same file will certainly also work for you. Paulo - Original Message - From: Christoph Wagner cwag...@canto.com To: 'Post all your questions about iText here' itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:32 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2DonSnowLeopard Hi Paulo, I just tried to copy that font to my windows box when I noticed that the font contains all information in the resource fork. Could this be a problem for iText? Is iText able to read the resource fork to extract font information? Best, Christoph Wagner -Original Message- From: Paulo Soares [mailto:psoa...@glintt.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:41 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2D onSnowLeopard Is the font available for downloading? (I don't have a MAC, only Windows) Paulo -Original Message- From: Christoph Wagner [mailto:cwag...@canto.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:22 AM To: 'Post all your questions about iText here' Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2D onSnowLeopard Hi Paulo, thanks for your reply. Does that font work outside PdfGraphics2D with a plain BaseFont? What do you mean by that? Should I create a PDF by hand using that font? I haven't tried that. The other glyphs are printed correctly and seem to be of the right font. Only the umlauts are not being handled. I even looked at the font definition stream in the generated PDF and as far as I understand it the widths are correctly calculated and inserted and the used characters are valid. The attached document shows the phenomenon. This is the font object from the incorrect PDF: 1 0 obj/LastChar 252/BaseFont/MUSGQI+LucidaGrande/Type/Font/Encoding/WinAnsiEncoding/Su btype/TrueType/FontDescriptor 6 0 R/Widths[316 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 316 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 749 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 512 0 557 0 0 0 0 0 584 0 0 0 0 0 0 409 509 374 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 632 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 794 0 0 0 0 0 331 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 614]/FirstChar 32 Printing with the same font definition to a real Graphics2D object prints out everything correctly. I am really out of ideas how to address this on my side. If you need any more information, just let me know and I will try to provide as much as can. Best, Christoph Wagner --- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support
[iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2D on SnowLeopard
Hi, I have written some code that prints a PDF using the wonderful PdfGraphics2D class from iText. When printing text using LucidaGrande on SnowLeopard the umlaut characters are missing. When printing the exact same data on Leopard everything works. On SL it also works when using Arial for example. I checked the fonts from both platforms and on SL the LucidaGrande is no longer a dfont but a ttc font. I also tested iText 5.0 and the problem also exists there. Do you have any idea how to solve this problem? Best, Christoph Wagner -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/
Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2D on SnowLeopard
Well, When I use that font using TextEdit, Word or any other application, the glyphs are there and visible. Only iText is unable to print them correctly. That's why I think that iText is the source of the problem. And it's never working with LucidaGrande on SnowLeopard. Any idea? Best, Christoph Wagner -Original Message- From: 1T3XT info [mailto:i...@1t3xt.info] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:51 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Umlaut problem with PdfGraphics2D on SnowLeopard Christoph Wagner wrote: Hi, I have written some code that prints a PDF using the wonderful PdfGraphics2D class from iText. When printing text using LucidaGrande on SnowLeopard the umlaut characters are missing. When printing the exact same data on Leopard everything works. On SL it also works when using Arial for example. I checked the fonts from both platforms and on SL the LucidaGrande is no longer a dfont but a ttc font. I also tested iText 5.0 and the problem also exists there. Do you have any idea how to solve this problem? You've answered the question yourself. It's not an iText problem because the code works with Arial, and even with one of the LucindaGrande fonts. However, the LucidaGrande font you're using on SnowLeopard apparently doesn't have the glyphs with umlaut. Copy the font from Leopard to SnowLeopard and use that one (that is: if you are licensed to use that font). -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info --- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php 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/
[iText-questions] Problem in PdfGraphics2D
Hi,
I am using the PdfGraphics2D to print a rather complex UI to a PDF using
iText. I got a problem where rectangles changed their thickness
intermittently. After hours of debugging I found the reason for the change:
Before that I printed a underline string using this code:
AttributedString as = new AttributedString (textToPrint);
as.addAttribute (TextAttribute.FONT, font);
if (isUnderlined)
{
as.addAttribute (TextAttribute.UNDERLINE, TextAttribute.UNDERLINE_ON);
}
pdfGraphics.drawString (as.getIterator (), left, (float) top);
This lead me to debugging the PdfGraphics2D class where I found the
following codeblock:
476 if(underline)
477 {
478 // These two are supposed to be taken from the .AFM file
479 //int UnderlinePosition = -100;
480 int UnderlineThickness = 50;
481 //
482 double d = asPoints((double)UnderlineThickness,
(int)fontSize);
483 setStroke(new BasicStroke((float)d));
484 y = (float)((double)(y) +
asPoints((double)(UnderlineThickness), (int)fontSize));
485 Line2D line = new Line2D.Double((double)x, (double)y,
(double)(width+x), (double)y);
486 draw(line);
487 }
The problem is the setting of the stroke in line 483 without preserving the
current stroke. The fix should be to set the original stroke back after the
draw in line 486 ( make a call to setStroke(oldStroke); in line 487).
Let me know what you think.
Christoph Wagner
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[iText-questions] Exception when printing PDF on Mac
Hi,
I have a problem printing a PDF on Mac using the latest iText version 1.4.8.
I get the following exception:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: null incompatible with Text-specific
antialiasing enable key
at java.awt.RenderingHints.put(RenderingHints.java:484)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfGraphics2D.setRenderingHint(Unknown
Source)
at apple.laf.AquaUtils.endFont(AquaUtils.java:40)
at apple.laf.AquaTextPaneUI.paintSafely(AquaTextPaneUI.java:77)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI.paint(BasicTextUI.java:782)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI.update(BasicTextUI.java:761)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintComponent(JComponent.java:742)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:1005)
The problem seems to be an invalid null value for the antialiasing key that
is pushed from the aqua UI classes to iText and fails in
java.awt.RenderingHints. I tried to workaround this problem with changing
the com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfGraphics2D.setRenderingHint method to:
public void setRenderingHint(Key arg0, Object arg1) {
if (arg1 != null) {
rhints.put(arg0, arg1);
}
else {
rhints.remove (arg0);
}
}
This fix works very well in all my testcases and should have no effect in
any other environment as the value parameter is not null usually. Any chance
that this fix will be included in one of the upcoming releases?
Thanks
Christoph Wagner
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