Hi Paulo,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
As you can see from my example, I already got the Phrase from the
cell. The question is, how do I tell it to display vertically?
Thanks for your time,
Philip
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:40:25 +0100, Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can call pdfPCell.getPhrase() to get the text.
>
> Best Regards,
> Paulo Soares
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Philip Petrescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 13:04
> Subject: [iText-questions] Vertical text in PdfPCell
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I know this question has been asked before, but I still can't figure
> > out what the answer is. I am trying to write the text within a
> > PdfPCell vertically, instead of horizontally.
> >
> > I searched for this topic and found the following answer from Paulo:
> >
> > "set the cell with a fixed height and use a PdfPCellEvent to paint the
> > text or whatever you want with the PdfContentByte provided."
> >
> > So that's what I tried to do (see the code below). The problem is that
> > in the cellLayout method from the MyCellEvent, I still don't know how
> > to tell the "existing" text from the cell to display vertically.
> >
> > I would really appreciate any help with this matter.
> >
> > Thanks for your time,
> >
> > Philip
> >
> > class MyCellEvent implements PdfPCellEvent
> > {
> > public void cellLayout(PdfPCell pdfPCell, Rectangle rectangle,
> > PdfContentByte[] pdfContentBytes)
> > {
> > PdfContentByte cb = pdfContentBytes[PdfPTable.TEXTCANVAS];
> >
> > // here I need to tell the cell that the text should be displayed
> vertically
> > // not horizontally, but I do not know how to do that.
> > cb.beginText();
> >
> > Chunk chunk = (Chunk) pdfPCell.getPhrase().get(0);
> > cb.setFontAndSize(chunk.font().getBaseFont(), chunk.font().size());
> >
> > // as you can see, I was able to write an additional text here
> (vertically)
> > // but this is not what I want. I need to tell the text that is
> already in
> > // the cell to be displayed vertically! How do I do that?
> > cb.setTextMatrix(0, 1, -1, 0, rectangle.right(), rectangle.top());
> > cb.showText("Text");
> >
> > cb.endText();
> > }
> > }
> >
> > // create table
> > PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(4);
> >
> > Font font = ReportUtils.GetFont(10, Font.NORMAL, Color.BLACK);
> > Chunk chunk = new Chunk(aCellString, font);
> >
> > // create cell
> > PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(20, chunk));
> > cell.setFixedHeight(100);
> >
> > // set cell event
> > MyCellEvent event = new MyCellEvent();
> > cell.setCellEvent(event);
> >
> > // add cell to table
> > aTable.addCell(cell);
> >
> >
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