What do you mean " floating out of the PdfPCell rather than by expanding 
it"?

Paulo

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "davidfossil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:52 AM
Subject: [iText-questions] Capturing the overflow from PdfPCell


>
> When adding a Phrase with a long text string to a narrow PdfPCell the text 
> is
> automatically wrapped into several lines. In the project I am working on I
> want the text to wrap, by floating out of the PdfPCell rather than by
> expanding it. As I read the source code this is not possible what-so-ever.
>
> As a workaround I have set a fixed height on the PdfPCell, causing the 
> text
> to wrap "into nowhere". My idea here is to then catch the overflown text, 
> to
> manually add it to the cell below. From the iText source I have found that
> PdfLine.add() and PdfChunk.split() seems that seems to do the actual line
> splitting, but unfortunately its all package private and I can not seem to
> find any "entraces" other than compiling my own modified iText.
>
> I have really tried to solve this one myself be investigating the iText
> source code, but know solution has turned up yet. I hope someone here is
> able to help me out. Alternative solutions to the original problem are 
> very
> welcome as well.
>
> Thanks in advance.


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