Re: [iText-questions] some questions

2010-05-16 Thread Michael Olenick
lled before creating a new page or closing the document to ensure the z-order is always on top, though you shouldn't write in that space anyway. I've found this is more useful than the header and footer functions: results are the same but more configurable. Michael. Michael Olenick +1

Re: [iText-questions] some questions

2010-05-15 Thread Michael Olenick
I'll translate them all: Dear Bruno -- We're too lazy to learn how to use iText and believe that your time is less valuable than ours. We therefore would like you to do our work for us. Maybe after you write our computer program you could also stop by and mow our lawns? I'd answer some but worr

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Olenick
; terms of License >> >> I'm not trying to vote for a fork just pointing out that >> someone in this thread (or recent thread) said they DID fork; >> so if your thinking of doing the same you might want to share >> resources with one that already did the fork. >&

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Olenick
People -- Call or write to Bruno's sales agent. If the cost/benefit of what iText offers doesn't make economic sense explain to him why it makes sense for Bruno's company to agree to different terms. For example, if the up-front amount is too high because you need the revenue from your software s

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-25 Thread Michael Olenick
Bruno shouldn't be "proud" of the price of iText because they are way, way too low. I see here questions that involve the other side of software engineering: the part many people ignore. So this is a digression, but maybe not: similar to people who ask obvious questions about iText but since they

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-22 Thread Michael Olenick
Government can > make the economics of spending more than your income work out somehow > :) > > -Dave > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Bruno Lowagie wrote: >> Michael Olenick wrote: >>> If you're making money from iText -- with "making money" b

Re: [iText-questions] What action is requred in terms of License

2010-04-22 Thread Michael Olenick
If you're making money from iText -- with "making money" being defined as somebody is paying you -- you should pay for it. There's a lot of hard work that went into the creation and support of this awesome tool. The licensing scheme they have for v. 5.0 is already incredibly generous; too generou

Re: [iText-questions] Create pages virtually and then write them out?

2010-04-11 Thread Michael Olenick
Thanks Bruno!!! The workaround I was using was dorky but effective enough for the form letters I generate. The problem came from letters where the first line ("Dear Whoever") had a flush-left margin but subsequent paragraphs started with tabs but were justified. My initial workaround was to disc

Re: [iText-questions] Create pages virtually and then write them out?

2010-04-11 Thread Michael Olenick
This is called impositioning; it's a common function for printers to minimize paper use dating back hundreds of years. There are plenty of ways to imposition n-up pages via itext; just look them up. Or use a transform for every other page in your program. Or write a two half-size PDF's and place

[iText-questions] Tab chunk problem?

2010-03-24 Thread Michael Olenick
Hi. I've discovered what I suspect is a bug with tab chunks and justified column text. Depending upon the size of the tab chunk sometimes the text juts out to the right of the column. The same code works just fine when the tab is set to different sizes; that is the line justifies without jutting