Monthly Archives: May 2010

Sculptris 1.0

May 31, 2010   Sudarshan   1 Comment
OMG! I love this!

Sculptris 1.0 is something you need to witness than read it here. Here is a simple trailer and a simple introduction to it. 

Sculptris 1.0 is a super cool software developed by a Tomas Pettersson in a span of 6 months. It is incredibly cool and may save your worthy time. This is free. And of course you ll not mind donating some money for it. It is a 3d modeling software. I don’t want to compare it with Blender or something of that type, but this is definitely great! You get to do simple stuff the simple way rather than what it is with Blender which is simple or difficult stuff it is always the difficult way. 

And it is incredibly portable. Download it from sculptris.com the 3mb zip package. Yup, its all about it. No installation nothing. Extract files to a comfortable folder and just run the application. You’re done and ready to make incredibly cool 3D designs. Just check out his forum for more brushes and cool stuff. :)


Here’s the link to Sculptris website – www.sculptris.com

and here’s the video :



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UTF-8 support in PDF – iText

May 12, 2010   Kiran Kumar   2 Comments

I have found it hard to identify a solution for supporting Unicode(UTF-8) characters in PDF. Finally I have found a solution using which you can write Unicode characters on to PDF.

i-Text is smart enough to provide a solution for everything. Using “FontSelector” class you can write UTF-8 characters in to PDF. The below code will help you in doing so,

 FontSelector fontSel = new FontSelector();

 BaseFont bFont1 = null;
 BaseFont bFont2 = null;
 BaseFont bFont3 = null;
 BaseFont bFont4 = null;
 String fontDir = "C:\fonts\";
 try
 {
    bFont1 = BaseFont.createFont(fontDir+"tahoma.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
    bFont2 = BaseFont.createFont(fontDir+"chinese.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
    bFont3 = BaseFont.createFont(fontDir+"japanese.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
    bFont4 = BaseFont.createFont(fontDir+"korean.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);

    Font dataFont1 = new Font(bFont1,size,Font.NORMAL);
    Font dataFont2 = new Font(bFont2,size,Font.NORMAL);
    Font dataFont3 = new Font(bFont3,size,Font.NORMAL);
    Font dataFont4 = new Font(bFont4,size,Font.NORMAL);

    fontSel.addFont(dataFont1);
    fontSel.addFont(dataFont2);
    fontSel.addFont(dataFont3);
    fontSel.addFont(dataFont4);
 }
 catch(Exception e)
 {
     e.printStackTrace();
 }

After preparing the FontSelector object with the required fonts, process the text you are going to write on to the PDF using FontSelector as below,

String text = "κείμενο テキスト 文本 본문 text"; //String with combination of different languages
Phrase ph = fontSel.process(text);
Paragraph para = new Paragraph(ph);
para.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
document.add(para);

You have to serve the desired fonts to the FontSelector to support all the languages. This FontSelector approach will be useful if you have mixed languages. If your data is of only language you know need to create the FontSelector. You can write the PDF by creating a single BaseFont with the desired font.

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