Re: [iText-questions] PDF generation in absense of X11 server

2003-04-02 Thread Robert Hedin
We are using iText on headless Linux servers. Since we're running JDK 1.4, all we had to do was add a single flag to the app server start up: -Djava.awt.headless=true and we are happily generating PDFs without a display, a video card, X11, VNC or anything else related. rob. - Original Message

Re: [iText-questions] Layers?

2003-03-14 Thread Robert Hedin
We're already doing this successfully by using the PdfContentByte directly. ( http://www.lowagie.com/iText/tutorial/ch10.html ) We've got full control of exact layout that we want. rob. - Original Message - From: "Andrew McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Frida

Re: [iText-questions] re: com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte.clip()

2003-02-14 Thread Robert Hedin
Title: Message We're doing the following whenever we have to generate graphics images (gifs/jpegs/whatever) on UNIX:   -Djava.awt.headless=true   (above is a JVM parameter)   (note we're also using JDK1.4.1 on the server, however; see: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/awt/AWTChanges.ht

[iText-questions] Locating TTF files to embed

2002-08-27 Thread Robert Hedin
I'm trying to embed TTF files using iText.   From what I can glean, I have to specify the FQPN to the actual TTF file, and not specify it by font name. i.e. I have to use C:\\WinNT\\fonts\\arial.ttf instead of just "Arial".   Assuming this is correct, is there a way to map from "Arial" to th

[iText-questions] Can I change header data?

2002-04-16 Thread Robert Hedin
I'm at a loss how to accompish a couple of items:   I'm basically trying to generate a report as a PDF using iText v0.90. The output of this report is intended to be printed on pre-printed forms. This means that the data must be placed exactly on the page, primarily for the header, detail wi