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Phattee
Exporting to PDF
Aug 24th, 2009, 5:21pm  
Hello,

I made a program that makes a chart and I would like to add code so it is rendered to the screen and exported to a PDF.

I added
import processing.pdf*; before setup(),
beginRecord(PDF, "atlas_Downloads.pdf"); as the first line in draw(), and
endRecord(); at the very end of draw().

I think I imported the pdf library into the sketch. There was a file named pdf.jar in C:\...\processing-1.0.3\processing-1.0.3\libraries\pdf\library and I dragged and dropped that into the sketch window.

However, when I try to run the program, I get the following error message: "Only a type can be imported. processing.pdf resolves to a package"

What am I doing wrong?
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Phattee
Re: Exporting to PDF
Reply #1 - Aug 24th, 2009, 5:39pm  
I just noticed that import processing.pdf*; was missing a period between the pdf and the * so I added that, but now as soon as the program gets to the first text function, in this case textSize(12);, it gives me a NullPointerException.

I have no idea what's going on.
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Phattee
Re: Exporting to PDF
Reply #2 - Aug 24th, 2009, 6:23pm  
Nevermind, it's working. The problem was that I had to include textFont() in every text-related function. But now the problem is that the caps of the lines in the PDF look really jagged. I'll post about that on the General forum.
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