Page 57 of the book has some examples but the important thing to
remember is that the returned PdfContentByte can be used with ColumnText
to add tables or other sophisticated layout.
Paulo
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> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:49 AM
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> Subject: [iText-questions] Add content to an existing PDF document
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to using iText and while it looks like its the
> application i need to use, one thing i just can't find
> anywhere is what is the best way to add content to an
> existing document. I assume this is a question every newbie
> asks and i thought the answer would be on the FAQ, but i
> haven't found it there, or the parts of the mailing list that
> i've gone through.
>
> As it stands i'm getting a handle on the PDFStamper and the
> PDFContentByte object of the document i want to change. After
> that i'm basically just writing text to designated
> coordinates, and through trial and error finding out the
> right coordinates. But it there a better way than this,
> should i be overlaying a table and writing to the table and
> it cells. One of the problems i've noticed is that i need
> some text to be RIGHT justified and to do that, i create a
> Chunk object with the text, getWidthPoint and write to the
> point i want to write to minus the result of the
> getWidthPoint. Problem is here, if i change fonts, then the
> alignment is off.
>
> Also i need to write some texts to the document, does
> wrapping work automatically or do i need to figure out how
> long each line is and only right out the amount less than the
> width of the document?
>
> Sorry if this email is long-winded, and i can only imagine
> one that has been answered many times before, but i can't
> find the necessary threads. I have also bought the iText in
> Action book, but it doesn't say definitely what can and
> cannot be done. And the document i'm writing to is an
> AcroForm document.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Anthony Maguire
> Oakton
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