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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of dayvidpow
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:14 AM
> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [iText-questions] Re ndering Left-to-Right and 
> Right-to-Left langauge text on the same line
> 
> 
> Can anyone say if it is possible to render some text in a 
> left-to-right
> language such as english on a line in a ColumnText, then on 
> the same line
> render some text in a right-to-left language such as Arabic?
> 
> e.g. "This is the English text run direction left-to-right"   
>   / "This is
> arabic text run direction right to left".
> 
> I have done some initial work were i change the run direction using
> ColumnText.setRundirection(). However, when I call 
> ColumnText.go() this
> causes each part of the text to be rendered on separate lines 
> instead of on
> the same line. 
> e.g.
> "This is the English text run direction left-to-right"    
>  / "This is arabic text run direction right to left".
>  
> So is there some other way to change the run direction and 
> have the both
> pieces of text rendered correctly on the same line?

It's not possible with ColumnText.go() but you can place the two
segments in the same line by calling ColumnText.showTextAligned() for
each segment with a different run direction.

Paulo


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