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Old 12-20-2006, 12:37 PM   #5
Kirys
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Cool

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Originally Posted by raevyn1
Your test pdf looks good, Kirys. The comics scale fairly well. Sorry no pix, but I'm currently at work. Tell us some more about iText. Is it easy to use and customize?
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

Actually I am just aiming at the jpg to pdf application so I don't know all features of the lib yet, till now seems not difficult to use (if you develop in java you should have no problem at all), and powerfull enought for creating also really complex pdfs (is seems also to have some kind of html parser builtin).
I hope to post (if i'm allowed) a first version fo the app soon, but is not yet safe to use yet :P

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Originally Posted by jęd
Thats cool... One question... What did the original look like...? Ie, how much alteration did you have to do...?
Atually The lib don't alter the jpegs itself i made the code (using standard java libs) that scales down the jpegs and set them as grayscale (the version i used for that pdf was bugged and generate a wrong aspect ratio btw), so from that point of view that is fully customizable .
I've attacched a couple of the source jpeg to let you evaluate the difference.

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Originally Posted by scotty1024
Here's a screen shot.
seems good
Cya
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