Re: [iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-23 Thread tlc
That did it. Thanks. As the saying goes: "A program is worth a thousand words". Apologies to the wife. Please assure her that your fifteen minute was not spent in vain. 1T3XT info wrote: > > > See attachment. Now my wife is angry at me because I chose > to spend a quarter of an hour to yo

Re: [iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-22 Thread 1T3XT info
tlc wrote: But how do I make the background transparent? Not by ignoring my previous answers: 17/01/2009 9:49: Have a look at this example: http://1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=example&id=164 It's sufficient to adapt the subclass Ellipse so that it draws a rectangle to the BACKGROUNDCANVAS

Re: [iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-22 Thread tlc
But how do I make the background transparent? I added the following code to create a shading color instead of using the image for the header background: ShadingColor tableHeaderBgColor; Rectangle page = document.getPageSize(); PdfShading axial = PdfShading.simpleAxial(writer, docume

Re: [iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-21 Thread 1T3XT info
tlc wrote: > My goal > is to have the table to be slightly transparent Hmm... You probably know better, but I think it's NOT your goal to have the table to be slightly transparent. > so the watermark would show > through the cells' background, but not the white text. Is this possible? You see?

Re: [iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-21 Thread tlc
I did realize that what I did caused the text to be transparent. However, if I implement what was suggested then the whole table is opaque. My goal is to have the table to be slightly transparent so the watermark would show through the cells' background, but not the white text. Is this possibl

Re: [iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-21 Thread 1T3XT info
tlc wrote: > > 1T3XT info wrote: >> >> Create a small standalone example that demonstrates your problem. >> Normally, if you set the text color to white, it should be white. >> You're not making the cell text transparent, are you? >> > > I'm setting the text color to be white but I'm not setting

Re: [iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-19 Thread tlc
1T3XT info wrote: > > > Create a small standalone example that demonstrates your problem. > Normally, if you set the text color to white, it should be white. > You're not making the cell text transparent, are you? > I'm setting the text color to be white but I'm not setting the cell text tran

Re: [iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-17 Thread 1T3XT info
tlc wrote: > I would like to have the text of the header to be bright white. I'm okay > with the watermark showing though the header. I just want the text to be > bright white and not get affected by the opacity setting. Create a small standalone example that demonstrates your problem. Normally

Re: [iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-17 Thread tlc
Thanks for your response. I did look at the example suggested below. That was how I learned how to use CellEvent. I think I was a bit misleading in stating the problem. Let me try again. As stated earlier, I have a table that sits on top of on a watermark. When rendering the table, I have

Re: [iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-17 Thread 1T3XT info
tlc wrote: > Question: How do I set different transparency level for different cells in a > table? > > I have a document that has a watermark image that was inserted with opacity > of 0.6 using the following code: > > PdfGState gstate = new PdfGState(); > gstate.setFillOpacity(0.6f); >

[iText-questions] Different transparency for cells in PdfPtable

2009-01-16 Thread tlc
Question: How do I set different transparency level for different cells in a table? I have a document that has a watermark image that was inserted with opacity of 0.6 using the following code: PdfGState gstate = new PdfGState(); gstate.setFillOpacity(0.6f); gstate.setStrokeOpacity(0.