Paint a simple square in a pdf-document
Hi,
i have a simple question. How can i paint a simple white rectangle in a pdf-document? Backround is following:
I wanne stamp a text in an arrea of my pdf. I dont know what is in that area. So it can happens i stamp my black letters on a black background. Not so good. So i want to stamp first a white square and then a the letters. Stamping the letters works fine.
Which would be the best way to succeed?
Thanks for all ideas, Cornelius Rohr.
Hi,
i can stamp the squere under my text. It works. but if i rotate my text i find no way to rotate my sqare too. The various parameters from PDEPathSetData (kPDELineTo,kPDECurveTo,kPDECurveToV,kPDECurveToH) dont draw any line. Therect with kPDERect works. I also fit the numbers of parameters to the containing parameter. But i never see a line or curve. Is there an sample for this also?
I have found one sample from datalogic. They use nearly the same funktions like the pdf-excample with the rect. Exept one function: dlpdfpathsetmatrix. Is there an equivalent function direct from pdf? Its a lot of overhead for my application to use dl-functions.
Thanks one more time.
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