Darryl Miles wrote:
Singhal, Ramneek (Exchange) wrote:
A newbie question. How to draw a horizontal line (same as <HR> in html)
in PDF using iText.
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 36, 36, 36, 36);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, out);
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
cb.setLineWidth(2.0f); // Make a bit thicker than 1.0 default
cb.setGrayStroke(0.95f); // 1 = black, 0 = white
float x = 72f;
float 7 = 72f;
cb.moveTo(x, y);
cb.lineTo(x + 72f*6, y);
cb.stroke();
That's a good example.
A follow-up question could be: how do I know the value of y?
There are different possibilities.
PdfWriter has a method getVerticalPosition,
but I like to use page events to draw lines,
for instance using onParagraph or onGenericTag.
On a related note if you know how to do a relative lineTo in iText I
would like to know, maybe PDF doesn't allow it ?
See table 4.9 on page 196-197 of the PDF Reference manual
for a list with the 'path construction operators'.
There is no relative lineTo...
br,
Bruno
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