As suggested, I added all the English and Arabic text to a Paragraph and then
set
the alignment to Element.ALIGN_LEFT (see code sample below). However, the
mix English and Arabic text output on the same line is still not correct.
The Arabic
text is not getting rendered correctly.
I believe the problem is that English has a run direction of Left-to-Right
and Arabic text
has a run direction of Right-to-Left, but there is no way of specifying this
for each
piece of Arabic or English text added to the Paragraph.
Am I missing something here ?
Paragraph para = new Paragraph();
para.add(new Phrase("Author(s): ", unicodeFont));
para.add(new Phrase(english_author_name_str1+"/ ",
unicodeItalicFont));
para.add(new Phrase(arabic_author_name_str1+", ",
unicodeItalicFont));
....
para.add(new Phrase(english_author_name_strN+"/ ",
unicodeItalicFont));
para.add(new Phrase(arabic_author_name_strN+", ",
unicodeItalicFont));
para.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
columnText.addText(para);
columnText.go()
David
Paulo Soares wrote:
>
> You can mix English and Arabic text in the same line and both will work
> correctly. You may use the alignment LTR. Both texts must be in the same
> Paragraph.
>
> Paulo
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of dayvidpow
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:25 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Phrase containing
>> Chunks/Phrase with multiple Run Directions
>>
>>
>> The proposed 2 column solution will not work for my special situation.
>> Basically, I am reading some journal metadata from xml files
>> and using this
>> data to generate and insert a coverpage into existing PDFs.
>>
>> The journal metadata is of varying length and in various languages.
>> Some of the metadata contains text in 2 different languages with
>> 2 different RUN DIRECTION eg. English and Arabic or English
>> and Hebrew.
>> So for example: a journal article may have multiple authors -
>> some with English names and some with Arabic names. So the
>> output should be:
>>
>> Title: <english_article_title> / <arabic_article_title>
>> Author(s): <englishname>, <english_name>, <arabic_name>,
>> <arabic_name>...<arabic_name>
>>
>> Now in these special cases i am trying to output the English
>> portion of the
>> text
>> and the Arabic portion of the text together on the same line with auto
>> wrapping
>> and in the proper order. The data varies in length therefore
>> i cannot use
>> absolute
>> positioning (showTextAligned, PdfPTable, etc).
>>
>> I don;t know , but maybe this cannot be accomplished using iText ?
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> Paulo Soares wrote:
>> >
>> > I think that what you require are different alignments in
>> the same line.
>> > It's possible to achieve that with a PdfPTable with two
>> columns without
>> > borders, one left aligned and the other right aligned, both
>> with no wrap
>> > set.
>> >
>> > Paulo
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> >> Behalf Of dayvidpow
>> >> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 6:31 PM
>> >> To: [email protected]
>> >> Subject: [iText-questions] Phrase containing Chunks/Phrase
>> >> with multiple Run Directions
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Currently, in iText I can create a new Phrase object with a
>> >> main font and
>> >> then within the Phrase I can have additional Chunks or Phrases with
>> >> different fonts. Therefore, likewise would it be possible
>> to create a
>> >> Phrase with a main run direction and then add additional
>> >> Chunks or Phrases
>> >> to it with different run directions ?
>> >>
>> >> I know that iText does not currently support thism, but I am
>> >> just looking at
>> >> how i can possibly extend the Phrase class to meet a special
>> >> need, Which is
>> >> to output some text in left-to-right and right-to-left
>> >> language on the same
>> >> line using ColumnText.go() method, instead of
>> >> ColumnText.showTextAligned
>> >> (which requires absolute positioning).
>> >>
>> >> Can the Phrase class be extended in this way ?
>
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