Hi Bruno Thanks for you're answer. I tried to solve it using ColumnText but this somehow doesn't work - when opening the resulting pdf i get two errors "Illegal operation 'm' inside a text object" and "Illegal operation 'ET' outside text object". Also the pdf page looks quite stange. A lot of elements are missing.
The code i use: PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent(); // some other cb drawing here cb.beginText(); BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED); String absender = tenant_company + ", " + tenant_street + " " + tenant_streetnumber + ", " + tenant_zip + " " + tenant_city; com.lowagie.text.Font font_absender = new com.lowagie.text.Font(bf, 11, com.lowagie.text.Font.UNDERLINE); Phrase absender_phrase = new Phrase(11, "Test2", font_absender); ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb); ct.setSimpleColumn(absender_phrase, 60, 150, 100, 250 , 0, Element.ALIGN_LEFT); ct.go(); cb.endText(); // some other cb drawing here When removing this part of the code, the pdf page is perfectly generated, so there must be something wrong in the lines above, but i have no idea what i could be. Maybe you see where i've done a mistake? Thanks a lot for your help Frank > -----Original Message----- > From: bruno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:47 PM > To: Frank Fischer > Cc: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] (no subject) > > Frank Fischer wrote: > > > I use DirectContent and would like to write underlined text to a > > specific position. For normal text i use: > > > > PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new > > FileOutputStream("test.pdf")); > > document.open(); > > PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent(); > > cb.beginText(); > > BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, > BaseFont.CP1252, > > BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED); > > cb.setFontAndSize(bf, 10); > > cb.showTextAligned(PdfContentByte.ALIGN_LEFT, "text", 10, 10, 0); > > > > Now i could not find a way to make a BaseFont underlined. > In the Font > > class, there is a related method to underline the text, but > i can not > > set Font with cb.setFontAndSize(). > > No, class Font is a convenience class wrapped around BaseFont. > It can only be used in objects such as Paragraph, Phrase, Chunk,... > > > <> Could please someone give a hint, how i can solve that issue? > > You can use ColumnText. You can add all kinds of objects to > a ColumnText object, including underlined Chunks of text. > Place the ColumnText at the absolute position and you're done. > > Or you can draw the line yourself using moveTo, lineTo and stroke > commands. > > br, > Bruno > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
