Use ColumnText.setSimpleColumn() to place the text in the new page and
ColumnText.setCanvas() to set it to the PdfContentByte of the page.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
----- Original Message -----
From: "Merlyn Mathias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 17:25
Subject: [iText-questions] ColumnText
> Hi Paulo,
>
> I am here with another question.
>
> I have a fixed size form which is populated using pdfstamper. I use the
> following code :
>
> ColumnText text = new ColumnText(stamper.getOverContent(1));
> text.addText(new Phrase(value, FontFactory.getFont
> (FontFactory.COURIER, 12, Font.NORMAL)));
>
> AcroFields.Item item = form.getFieldItem(field);
>
> if (item != null)
> {
> int pageN = ((Integer)item.page.get(0)).intValue();
> text.setCanvas(stamper.getOverContent(pageN));
> float[] position = form.getFieldPositions(field);
> text.setSimpleColumn(position[1], position[2], position[3],
> position[4]);
> text.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED);
> }
>
> if ((text.go() & ColumnText.NO_MORE_TEXT) == 0)
> overflowFields.put(name, text);
>
>
> I want to display the remaining data at the end of the document, so I
store it
> in a map for later use.
>
> Now at the end of the page, I have a map (overflowFields) with String as
key
> and the value could be either String or ColumnText.
>
> public byte[] drawAppendix(Map appendixFields) throws DocumentException
> {
> if (overflowFields == null || overflowFields.size() == 0)
> return null;
>
> Document doc = new Document(reader.getPageSize(1));
>
> ByteArrayOutputStream appendix = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> //PdfWriter tempWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, appendix);
>
> Font headerFont = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 12,
> Font.BOLD);
> Font footerFont = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 10);
>
>
> HeaderFooter header = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("Appendix",
> headerFont), false);
> header.setBorder(Rectangle.BOX);
> header.setAlignment(HeaderFooter.ALIGN_CENTER);
> doc.setHeader(header);
>
>
> HeaderFooter footer = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("Appendix Page ",
> footerFont), true);
> footer.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
> footer.setAlignment(HeaderFooter.ALIGN_CENTER);
> doc.setFooter(footer);
>
>
> doc.open();
>
> // PdfContentByte cb = tempWriter.getDirectContent();
>
> Iterator iter = new TreeSet(overflowFields.keySet()).iterator();
>
> Table table = new Table(1);
> table.setBorder(Rectangle.BOX);
> table.setWidth(100);
> table.setPadding(5);
>
>
> while (iter.hasNext())
> {
> String key = ((String) iter.next()).trim();
> String name = (String) appendixFields.get(key);
> Object value = overflowFields.get(key);
>
> Cell cell = new Cell();
> Chunk chunk1 = new Chunk(name + "\n", FontFactory.getFont
> (FontFactory.HELVETICA, 10, Font.BOLD));
> cell.add(chunk1);
>
> if (value instanceof ColumnText)
> {
> ColumnText text = (ColumnText) value;
> // Here I want to add the remaining text to the table
>
> }
> else
> {
> Chunk chunk2 = new Chunk((String)value, FontFactory.getFont
> (FontFactory.COURIER, 12));
>
> cell.add(chunk2);
> }
>
> table.addCell(cell);
>
> }
>
> doc.add(table);
>
> doc.close();
>
> return appendix.toByteArray();
>
> }
>
>
> It works fine with strings. I could not figure out how to do it with
> columntext. Now I want all the data to display here so I dont know how to
set
> the column size. and if the data doe not fit in one page, it should grow
to
> the next page.
>
> Thank you so much.
> Merlyn.
>
>
>
>
>
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