[iText-questions] More font questions . . . customizing font characteristics

2002-02-28 Thread jsampson
Greetings, Out application needs to define many fonts all based on the same base font(s) e.g. helvetica-medium-upright. Each of these font instances will have a unique width table and differences array. We have tried the support to force the width table into the font definition and it does show

[iText-questions] Set Character Spacing Question (follow up)

2002-02-15 Thread jsampson
I figured out how the set char spacing call works . . . adds the value, does not scale. When I changed the algorithm on that basis it works quite well to approximate the metrics of the printer font. It would be great to find a way to hit the metrics on the head . . . does the notion of subclassi

[iText-questions] Set Character Spacing Question

2002-02-15 Thread jsampson
Greetings. I am trying to create a text string in a content byte object which has a specific length. Since iText does not support user supplied font width tables I am trying to adjust the character spacing to compensate for the difference in the measured length using the basefont and the desire

[iText-questions] iText and Threads

2002-01-28 Thread jsampson
Greetings, We are looking at iText and it looks very promising. Is there any information about iText and thread usage. To what degree is it thread safe? At the least, we will need to use multiple concurrent threads, one of each of several documents. Does iText support this? Does anyone out the

[iText-questions] Linearized PDF

2002-01-23 Thread jsampson
Greetings, I am investigating the use of the iText library. We need to build linearized PDF and I have not been able to find any mention of that in the iText documentation. So let me ask: Does iText have the ability to build linearized PDF? If not, does anyone know where there is a lib that can