Nevermind. In case anybody is wondering, call cb.newPath() after a clip.
According to the pdf spec, painting operators close a path, but clip ('W' or
'W*') is not really a painting operator. 'newPath()' is like a null
painting operator.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Galligan
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:11 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: PdfContentByte trouble
>
> I've been having some trouble using PdfContentByte with our code. We've
> been using pdflib with some of our other stuff, so it was easier to
> convert using a low level pdf writer than to use the document objects.
> We're getting into that later, but for now we're trying to us
> PdfContentByte. Anyway...
>
> I'm trying to clip free form shapes, but I keep getting...
>
> 'There was an error processing a page. Wrong operand type'
>
> when I open the file in Acrobat 4.05a. If I take clipping out it works
> fine. I'm only trying a basic object now (Rectange). My code iterates
> over the shape (PathIterator), and includes a closePath() at the end, but
> no matter what I do it bombs.
>
> //cb is the PdfContentByte, shape is the rectangle
>
> shapePath(shape);
> cb.clip();
>
> The only clipping example I've seen in the code actually uses the
> 'rectangle' function of PdfContentByte. This won't work because we need
> to do arbitrary shapes.
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> -Kevin (Newbie) Galligan
>
>
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