Geert Delanote wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:10 PM, 1T3XT info <i...@1t3xt.info> wrote:
>> Geert Delanote wrote:
>>> How can I stretch text to fit a tablecell?
>>>
>>> I have a table with 10 rows (The layout contains no vertical lines).
>>> Before the first 5 rows I want a large brace "{". How should I do
>>> that?
>> I'd use a table event to do that.
>
> Is it possible to give some sample code?
Not with a large brace, but there are some table event examples in
chapter 10 of "iText in Action". (See http://1t3xt.info/examples )
>>> My plan was to create an extra column, add the "{"-character in a cell
>>> and stretch it over the height of the cell (with Rowpan==5). Is that
>>> possible?
>> That's possible too.
>
> How?
See below.
>>> I couldn't get the wanted result by changing the font size because the
>>> brace becomes too "bold" and I can't get it aligned at the top of the
>>> cell.
>> OK, it's not possible to stretch the glyph vertically using high-level
>> objects, only horizontally with the method Chunk.setHorizontalScaling().
>> You could set the horizontal scaling to a value < 100% (< 1). That way,
>> the glyph will look "less bold".
>
> Indeed. I managed to do that, but the brace isn't aligned to the top
> of the cell.
> I use cell.setVerticalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_TOP);
That's because the leading exceeds the height of the brace.
Reduce the leading.
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