Shawn A schrieb: >> Hmmm, I still try to understand what you're trying to do? What is the >> goal of your implementation? Do you try to put some text on a page and >> convert this page to a png image? >> If I am right I suggest to do it like this: > > What I am trying to accomplish right now is just use the embedded truetype > font > and render some text to an image. Are you talking about the previous > time we talked > when you mentioned implementation? No, last time we talk about overlapping characters. Perhaps there is a easier or better way to do the same. But first of all I have to understand in detail what you are trying to do. And that's why I'm asking so much ;-))
>> - create a PDDocument >> - add a PDPage to the document >> - add the needed fonts to the document wiht PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF >> - use PDPageContentStream to add some text with beginText, drawString, >> endText etc. >> - use PDPage.convertToImage to create the image > > I could do that, except that the TTF's I have are still inside of an > existing PDF, so I need to add it another way. So, is it correct, that the only reason for you to load the pdf is to use the embedded fonts for drawing strings on a buffered image? > I am also not sure if you are mentioning > this in the context > of the last time we spoke or not? No, see above. Andreas
