Hi everyone. I never used iText, only took a quick glance at code examples, and though it looks great by features I noticed one thing that seems a bit odd, and quite unsuitable for my needs. Correct me if I'm wrong, but generation of PDF let's say, consists of following steps :
1. Create Document 2. Create a PdfWriter using Document and OutputStream 3. Open Document 4. Add content to Document 5. Close Document Menaing that when one is adding content to Document, he is already been decided where this content should be written to, mixing content encapsulation with generation. Is there a way to use more tipical (better?) procedure, practiced by most other libraries that generate some kind of content (JDOM, JFreeChart....) : 1. Create Document 2. Add content 3. Create PdfWriter using OutputStream 4. Write Document using PdfWriter That way Document would only mean encapsulation of content, without mixing it's meaning with generation. I want to create a "service" object that would generate PDFs from passed content, which would best be encapsulated as Document object, but that means that all elements should already be added to passed Document instance, *before* PDF generation takes place. Like I said, I never worked with iText, so answer could be so simple that I would turn out quite dumb :-) Regards, Vjeran -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.6.0 - Release Date: 3.6.2005 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
