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John Hewson edited comment on PDFBOX-2618 at 1/23/15 9:04 PM:
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_Tilman Hausherr added a comment - 3 hours ago_
I'd agree that we could start by having this just as an example.
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Ok, so we have a consensus to build an example. This is a smart move, we can
use ICU4J in an example without bloating core pdfbox. Java also has some of
it's own layout code, which is pretty sophisticated an might be a possibility
too. We don't have to reinvent the wheel.
was (Author: jahewson):
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_Tilman Hausherr added a comment - 3 hours ago_
I'm satisfied with the title as it is now. I've never written that it should be
available for 2.0. But I'd agree that we could start by having this just as an
example.
{quote}
Ok, so we have a consensus to build an example. This is a smart move, we can
use ICU4J in an example without bloating core pdfbox. Java also has some of
it's own layout code, which is pretty sophisticated an might be a possibility
too. We don't have to reinvent the wheel.
> Create paragraphs with PDFBox
> -----------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-2618
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2618
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Writing
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
>
> [~mkl] wrote this morning on stackoverflow on the topic about creating tables
> with PDFBox:
> {quote}I'm afraid all those samples IMO meely are proofs of concept, probably
> of use in limited use cases but by far not for generic use. PDFBox has its
> strengths, e.g. a quite versatile content extraction framework and a content
> rendering capability, but the absence a proper layouting API is a serious
> weakness.{quote}
> To which I answered:
> {quote}I know... I just don't want to create another iText. We're not the
> Samwer brothers.{quote}
> But he's right. We could of course look at what iText offers and implement
> that on our own, that wouldn't even be illegal, but it wouldn't be nice. I've
> never looked at or used iText, except once when answering this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/26820598/535646
> IMO what we need to start, is a method to write a paragraph to a PDF. Such a
> method would have these parameters:
> - text
> - rectangle (or width and height from current position)
> Such a method would then output the text and break the lines at the end of
> the rectangle, and throw an exception if the space isn't enough.
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