Any possibility to create various hatches with polygon?

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Any possibility to create various hatches with polygon?

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Hallo,

we use the xchange viewer and editor and urgently need a function described above. As a substitute we take jpgs of hatches, but it is not a solution for the future. Is there something new? The search within the forums didn´t show a result. Thanks for answering.

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Hi Eric,

I am not even sure if this is allowed by the PDF specification, so I will check that with our dev team, and if it is - create the necessary Feature Request (FR) for it.

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Re: Any possibility to create various hatches with polygon?

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Hi Stefan,

thanks for your answer! If i´m allowed to make a suggestion, the following hatchings were nice to have:

http://f.sbzo.de/onlineanhaenge/files/235020_1.pdf

Our wish is, that the hatchings fit and stitch automatically in edges, where they touch themselve. Maybe they are colourable and adjustable scalewise too.

We need this for commenting architectural drawings with DIN and DIN-ISO-Hatchings especially for walls, concrete, ligthweight partitionwalls and so on. Of course, a CAD-Prgramm would do this, but with viewer and editor working till now is much easier! :D

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Hi Eric,

Thanks for the suggested templates. As I said - I need to first get a confirmation from our devs if that is even allowed by the PDF specification, and then if it is I will make this a Feature Request.

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Hi Eric,

I've added a FR ticket for this in our system:
RT#2503: FR: Hatch fill support for Polygon (and other annotations).
And it will be considered, however as this is not a standard feature - our devs can not promise that this will be implemented.

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Re: Any possibility to create various hatches with polygon?

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Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your replies! Please keep us up to date. :idea:

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Hi Eric,

Certainly will do! I will post here any news that our devs add to the ticket.

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EricF wrote:Hi Stefan,

thanks for your answer! If i´m allowed to make a suggestion, the following hatchings were nice to have:
http://f.sbzo.de/onlineanhaenge/files/235020_1.pdf
Whoaa! I'd be happy if even my drawing programs had a number of nice vector hatches like these.

PDF-XChange Editor about to go to replace those nasty CAD programs, why not :roll:

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Re: Any possibility to create various hatches with polygon?

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Hi David,

It's a nice feature indeed, but it is not a standard one, and while the PDF specification allows a "Pattern Color" to be used for some objects - this is not currently a standard feature in other products - and as such our devs will be quite cautious when considering the implementation of the same in our own Editor. This is not to say it will not happen, though it might take some time.

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Re: Any possibility to create various hatches with polygon?

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We can look at adding such a feature (more important part here is to support 'external' 'custom' patterns, not just built-in ones) for content items (paths, text), but doing so for annotations is problematic since it is not supported by the PDF standard.
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I made a tool for this, posted in this topic: viewtopic.php?t=40329
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