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CEMPD / VERDI

This is the repo for the VERDI project, written in java.
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Investigate how to output VERDI Plots created in JFreeChart to PDF files #42

Open joellenb opened 8 years ago

joellenb commented 8 years ago

From some types of charts in VERDI, the user can rt-click on the chart and save the chart in selected graphical formats (e.g., PNG, JPG). Can the same functionality be extended to output to PDF format?

joellenb commented 8 years ago

Based on a cursory Internet search this feature may be possible using another library called iText (https://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/files/). Chapter 16 of The JFreeChart Class Library Developer Guide provides some sample code showing how to use JFreeChart with iText, which is a different library. However, the JFreeChart examples are with iText v. 2.1.5, the JFreeChart document recommends evaluating the latest version of iText, and the latest version is 5.5.8.

NOTE: Repast Simphony that is included in VERDI uses iText v2.1.7. We would need to be careful when implementing a different version of iText to make certain that the newer version would work with Simphony.

The JFreeChart documentation includes some caveats related to limitations on fonts.