Am 06.03.2016 um 23:12 schrieb Blake McBride:
Thanks. I imagine that the PDF format has its own way of looking at
things. This would be why the coordinates start in the lower left hand
corner. Although that may be convenient for the PDF world, it makes no
sense in most any other world IMO. No one generates a report from the
bottom of the page up. Reports are generated top down. One reads records
from a database, prints consecutive lines going _down_ the page, and then
causes a new page if there are more records than space on the page.
I think the library should cater to the developer rather than the medium.
I am writing some utilities to provide top down coordinates with absolute
positioning. Happy to contribute if interested.
No need to, this is quite easy to do: just set a CTM that flips the
page, as it is done in CreateLandscapePDF.java
PDFBox PDF creation is rather low level. If you want high level writing,
use itext.
Tilman
Blake McBride
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]>
wrote:
Am 06.03.2016 um 21:31 schrieb Blake McBride:
Hi,
I am using 2.x.
I see that PDPageContentStream.moveTo can not be used with text (??). I
also see that PDPageContentStream.newLineAtOffset uses relative position
numbers. I'd lite to use absolute positions. Is there a method for that,
or do I need to create my own layer on top of newLineAtOffset?
It starts from 0,0 initially... You could save the graphics state and
restore when done.
Or use setTextMatrix(Matrix.getTranslateInstance((float) tx, (float) ty));
Tilman
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