Chapter 5. Inserting images

This chapter covers

  • Image types supported in iText

  • com.lowagie.text.Image vs. java.awt.Image

  • Image properties

In the previous chapter, we talked about this quick brown fox jumping over that lazy dog. To take a quote from David Lynch’s movie Wild at Heart, “Mentally you picture my dog, but I haven’t told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from the ‘Wizard of Oz.’” That’s definitely not the kind of dog I’m thinking of. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could add a picture of a specific fox and a specific dog in the document? If so, what types of images does iText support? Those and other questions will be answered in this chapter.

iText supports a range of standard image types and adds some extra types ...

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