CodeStore.net comments on "Embedding Fonts In Java PDF-Creating Agents"

Reply from Andrew Magerman

Andrew Magerman — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:56:05 -0500

Which fowl, specifically, are you referring to? Chicken? Duck? Pheasant?

Reply from Nick Hopkins

Nick Hopkins — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:49:07 -0500

Constant worry eh?

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:13:17 -0500

Undoubtedly.

Reply from Nick Hopkins

Nick Hopkins — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:57:46 -0500

Nice..Does it put any more pressure on the JVM?

Reply from Jakes dad

Jakes dad — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:53:31 -0500

if Jake became a 'Sir' then that would make Karen

a 'Lady' I'm lost for words.~(;-(

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:14:51 -0500

Ah, we call those "White House Appointees" here. The British take higher marks for being at least a bit more clever in the wording.

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:56:56 -0500

It would take a better reason than licencing to move me off iText. It just works. And well.

I knows there's a lot of confusion over iText licencing since version 5. But I only ever use version 2.x which doesn't fall fowl. I hope. See, there you go, confusion. Maybe PDFBox would be better ;-)

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:55:35 -0500

Not using the getResource() method but if you can put them on the server's disk (anywhere) then you can create a BaseFont from a File object.

As I understand it though. The Agent's content is stored on disk anyway (is it?) and it's not got to load it from inside the NSF each time. Or does it?

Reply from Andrew Magerman

Andrew Magerman — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:50:07 -0500

'other distinctions' is secret code for large donations to the ruling party. Embarrasingly.

Reply from Rob Darwin

Rob Darwin — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:33:54 -0500

Would this still work if the font files lived in /jvm/lib/ext to avoid the overhead of detaching from the agent each run?

Reply from Stephan H. Wissel

Stephan H. Wissel — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:14:39 -0500

Did u ever try PDFBox? With its Apache license it is less of an development headache

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:27:58 -0500

From the British Embassy website:

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1917) is awarded mainly to civilians and service personnel for public service or other distinctions and has a military and a civil division. Ranks in the Order are Knight or Dame Grand Cross (GBE), Knight or Dame Commander (KBE or DBE), Commander (CBE), Officer (OBE) and Member (MBE).

If I'm not mistaken, private individuals can be nominated for Knighthood to this order, and your decade of contributions to the advancement of the art of making due with otherwise horrible tools is certainly a service to the crown and humanity.

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:19:17 -0500

Very timely. I've been working on a tool that uses the user name to generate a watermark with transparency and a pitch angle. The standard font doesn't scale well when you try to make it 100 pt tall, so it gets very blocky. The trick I had to use was to start off with the image for the watermark 300 pt tall and then resize the image a couple of times. This automatically smooths the edges, much to my delight, as the resizing function uses some interpolation rules. Simply using a BaseFont set up with a large font face would be a less memory intensive upgrade to this process.

Thank you, once again, sir Jake. You have been knighted by know, surely?