RE: [iText-questions] Paragraph keepTogether and ColumnText

[David Martin]

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OK, I think I understand it better now: ColumnText is a lower-level object, and does not posess enough information to honor the keepTogether attribute. Your suggested solution is similar to what I have implemented.

 

Thanks,

 

-Dave Martin

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paulo Soares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:58 AM
To: David Martin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Paragraph keepTogether and ColumnText

ColumnText only uses the chunks inside a Phrase/Paragraph, it doesn't use any of the other attributes such as leading or keepTogether. To achieve the same effect do:

 

ColumnText ct = ...; //the text and position is loaded

ColumnText ct2 = ColumnText.duplicate(ct);

if ((ct2.go(true) & ColumnText.NO_MORE_TEXT) != 0) {

    ct.go(); //ok to place text, it fits

}

else {

    // move the text to somewhere else

}

 

Best Regards,

Paulo Soares

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Martin
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 5:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [iText-questions] Paragraph keepTogether and ColumnText

Hi,

 

Paragraph's keepTogether attribute has no effect when adding the paragraph to a ColumnText. I filed a bug on this, which was closed as 'not a bug'. Could you explain?

 

Thanks,

 

-Dave Martin