Jon,
Bruno Lowagie, the author of the Itext Book, gave me another solution. You
can find it here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15414923/rotate-paragraphs-or-cells-some-arbitrary-number-of-degrees-itext
Thank you so much for you help.
Best Regards.
Carlos Bernal
2013/3/14 Carlos Arturo Bernal Carvajal <bernalcarva...@gmail.com>
> I see Jon,
>
> Thank you very much, it seems like it's just what i need. I'll give it a
> try and let you know.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Carlos Bernal.
>
>
>
>
>
> 2013/3/14 Jon Wu <j...@wuservices.com>
>
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> I just did this and found the info in the list archives. You just have to
>> apply a transform which is pretty trivial. It sounds like your problem is
>> that you're using ColumnText.showTextAligned() which "Shows a line of text.
>> Only the first line is written."
>>
>> Try something like this instead. In this example, textBox is my own
>> object where the x and y coordinates specify the upper left corner of my
>> box:
>>
>> final ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb);
>> ct.setSimpleColumn(textBox.getX(), textBox.getY() - textBox.getHeight(),
>> textBox.getX() + textBox.getWidth(), textBox.getY());
>> ct.addElement(someElement); // add some text that you've defined already
>> with addElement or addText
>>
>> // Before applying a transform, save the current state
>> cb.saveState();
>>
>> // Rotate around the center of the TextBox by setting the center of the
>> textBox as the rotation anchor point
>> AffineTransform af = new AffineTransform();
>> af.rotate(textBox.getRotationDegrees() * Math.PI / 180.0, textBox.getX()
>> + textBox.getWidth() / 2, textBox.getY() - textBox.getHeight() / 2);
>> cb.transform(af);
>>
>> ct.go();
>>
>> cb.restoreState();
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Jon
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Carlos Arturo Bernal Carvajal <
>> bernalcarva...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I need to add text to a PDF file at absolute positions, rotations, and
>>> alignments. The text can have multiple lines.
>>>
>>> In theory what i would need to do, is to define a paragraph of some
>>> defined width and height, set the users text, font, font style,
>>> alignment(center, left, right, justify), and finally set the rotation.
>>>
>>> For what i've read about Itext, i could create a paragraph set the user
>>> properties, and use a ColumnText Object to set the absolute position, width
>>> and height. However it's not possibly to set the rotation of anything
>>> bigger than single line.
>>>
>>> I cant use table cells either, because the rotation method only allow
>>> degrees that are multiples of 90.
>>>
>>> Is there a add a paragraph with some rotation (say 20 degrees) without
>>> having to add the text line by line using the ColumnText.showTextAligned()
>>> method and all math that involves?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Carlos Bernal
>>>
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>
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>
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