Adam Mork wrote: > For example does the lly value represent the baseline for text?
No, ColumnText starts writing at the top. > Also how does the height of the column affect the output. Either the content fits the height (and everything is sent to the output), or not (in which case, some content remains in the column). > For example if I change the ury, relative to the > lly,the physical positioning of the text on the page changes. Of course! > Is the > text centered inside of the rectangle created by ‘setSimpleColumn’ ? No. > Also what does setYline do in column text ? It changes the starting position. > I don’t understand what it > means when the documentation says ‘Sets the yLine. The line will be > written to yLine-leading.’ Please explain what's not clear in the documentation ( = chapter 7 of "iText in Action") so that it can be adapted in the next revision. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/