Backer, Lisa H. wrote:

>1) how I force the alignment to be within coordinates I specifiy
>
You see you get the coordinates of a box (rectangle) from the database.
I think ColumnText would be the ideal way to fit the text inside this 
rectangle.
Create a ColumnText object with writer.getDirectContent() as parameter;
wrap the text you want to add in a Phrase, then use this method to position
the phrase inside a rectangle with a certain alignment and a leading (in 
PDF,
the leading is the space between two baselines).
http://itext.ugent.be/library/api/com/lowagie/text/pdf/ColumnText.html#setSimpleColumn(com.lowagie.text.Phrase,%20float,%20float,%20float,%20float,%20float,%20int)

> 2) how I can prevent it from stripping the spaces?
>  
>
By using a non breaking space character (I always forget the ASCII code,
but Paulo has posted it very often here). I wouldn't go for this solution.
It's not that elegant as solution 1)
br,
Bruno


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