Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development

2003-03-18 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 8:49 AM -0800 3/18/03, Andrew McLaughlin wrote: Okay, now you've really got my attention. It kinda sounds like I can have the artsy folks do all their design work in Illustrator (available) and export as PDF. Exactly! Now, of course, we use Macintosh here (for graphics as well as Java dev

RE: [iText-questions] PDF Development

2003-03-18 Thread Paulo Soares
oares > -Original Message- > From: Andrew McLaughlin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 16:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development > > Okay, now you've really got my attention. It kinda sounds like I can >

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development

2003-03-18 Thread Matt Benson
To clarify: you would have one PdfReader per component PDF. You could, of course, simplify things by putting your various components on different pages of one PDF "library file." -Matt --- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your components can be stored as individual PDFs. > Your PdfWrit

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development

2003-03-18 Thread Matt Benson
Your components can be stored as individual PDFs. Your PdfWriter instance can get a PdfImportedPage from a PdfReader which reads your component PDFs. A PdfImportedPage is a special type of PdfTemplate. See the API documentation of these classes as well as Chapter 10 of the tutorial. -Matt ---

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development

2003-03-18 Thread Andrew McLaughlin
Okay, now you've really got my attention. It kinda sounds like I can have the artsy folks do all their design work in Illustrator (available) and export as PDF. Now, of course, we use Macintosh here (for graphics as well as Java development) so printing to PDF is always an option. Can I th

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development

2003-03-18 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 2:41 PM -0800 3/17/03, Andrew McLaughlin wrote: The layout will be something done in, say, Photoshop. Why is it that designers insist on using the wrong tools for the job?!?! Can you get them to use Illustrator instead? That way they can save the files as PDF's that you can then use as tem

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development

2003-03-17 Thread Matt Benson
xt > > components. > > > > Best Regards, > > Paulo Soares > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Andrew McLaughlin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > <[EMAIL

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development

2003-03-17 Thread Andrew McLaughlin
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 20:15 Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development At 12:06 PM -0800 3/17/03, Andrew McLaughlin wrote: In my efforts to evaluate iText as a PDF API, I'm finding that going from a creative design (like from an Art Director) to Java code, an

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development

2003-03-17 Thread Paulo Soares
From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 20:15 Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development > At 12:06 PM -0800 3/17/03, Andrew McLaughlin wrote: > >In my

Re: [iText-questions] PDF Development

2003-03-17 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
At 12:06 PM -0800 3/17/03, Andrew McLaughlin wrote: In my efforts to evaluate iText as a PDF API, I'm finding that going from a creative design (like from an Art Director) to Java code, and making it look even remotely close, is an arduous process. It can indeed. This is usually better solved