Great and being able to set word spacing would be a nice thing as well. Oh yeah and while we're adding to your workload, Paulo ;-j do you have any plans to fix the leading issues that occur when using non-rectangular columns?
Normally when two fonts appear on the same line or with an image the leading should come from the largest item on the line (via multipliedLeading). This works fine for "simple" i.e. rectangular columns but not with non-rectangular columns which instead assume a fixed leading for all lines. Looking at the code I can see that this is not going to be a completely trivial problem to fix however because calculating the length of the line is then dependent on finding the intersection with the column outline at the height of the line. A solution would need to calculate both the line length and line height simultaneously and deal with cases like where columns that get narrower as they go down the page (i.e. the line nees to get shorter as the line gets higher). ...john : Thank you. That's what I'm doing now (and must not do for script-like : fonts). : : Best Regards, : Paulo Soares : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "John Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 1:39 : Subject: [iText-questions] Re: iText-questions digest, Vol 1 #691 - 3 msgs : : : > Tracking is the uniform addition or subtraction of letter space to/from : > all : > the characters in a font. Tracking generally is used to increase letter : > spacing as type gets smaller and decrease it as type gets larger. : > : > : In October or November ColumnText will support kerning, several ways : > of : > : spacing for justified text and full features right-to-left text with : > arabic : > : shaping. Until then you are on your own. By the way, what's tracking, : > : typographically speaking? : > : : > : Best Regards, : > : Paulo Soares : > : : > : ----- Original Message ----- : > : From: "Shahzad Latif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > : To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > : Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 14:52 : > : Subject: Re: [iText-questions] leading, tracking, kerning : > : : > : : > : > Hi: : > : > : > : > Just a correction. Leading is working great. My bad. : > : > : > : > Could someone suggest something for tracking, kerning, space between : > : > words : > : > issues in columntext. I would really appreciate that. : > : > : > : > Regards, : > : > : > : > Shahzad ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
