Line with Arrow (Line Cap)

[car.nage]

Hello!

I'm trying to draw some shapes to a PdfTemplate. I have to draw a line which should end with a filled triangle arrow. Searching this list and requesting google doesn't deliver a solution by now.

So: How to draw a line with an arrow as line cap?

Thanks in advance
Alex Maier
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[Mark Storer-2]

PDF only supports a few line cap styles:

"Butt cap" the line ends squarely at the endpoint.
"Round cap" the line ends with a half-circle with a diameter equal to the line width
"Projecting square cap" similar to "butt cap", only the line projects half the line width past the end point.

That's it.

If you want anything beyond that you must draw it yourself.  That's an interesting problem, geometrically speaking.  Given some set of points/stroke/fill, draw it on the end of a line in the correct direction/thickness...

Hey... Graphics2D... nope.  It has the same line caps, and I don't see a way to make a custom end cap there either.

There's got to be some open source project that implements this out there somewhere.  SVG maybe?  Batik...  NOPE.  Grr.

Sorry, looks like you're on your own.

--Mark Storer
  Senior Software Engineer
  Cardiff.com

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> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to draw some shapes to a PdfTemplate. I have to
> draw a line which should end with a filled triangle arrow.
> Searching this list and requesting google doesn't deliver a
> solution by now.
>
> So: How to draw a line with an arrow as line cap?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Alex Maier
> --
> Neu: GMX DSL bis 50.000 kBit/s und 200,- Euro Startguthaben!
> http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02
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