It's up to you to give the correct coordinates to align your text with whatever else on the page you want it aligned.
You might find PdfContentByte.showTextAligned() to be useful. It can right/center/left align your text based on the coordinate you pass in, and can apply rotation. However, it still needs the correct coordinates. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com import legalese.Disclaimer; Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null; > -----Original Message----- > From: karthik B [mailto:karthik87_...@yahoo.co.in] > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 5:19 AM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Place text in speacified x y coordinate > > Hi , > Again regarding placing of text. > > I use barcode fonts to genrate the barcode. I get a encoded > string and apply the barcode font for the encoded string, but > while applying the Y coordinate is not correctly aligned. Do > i need to set any property. > > I have used both the methods, one given by you and next is using > > pdfContentByte.BeginText() > pdfContentByte.SetFontAndSize(bf1, 28.3) > pdfContentByte.SetTextMatrix(arr(0), arr(1)) > pdfContentByte.ShowText("!2.3.-f"") > pdfContentByte.Stroke() > > Could you please help in fixing this issue, Thanks & Regards > Karthik B > > > --- On Thu, 19/5/11, 1T3XT BVBA <i...@1t3xt.info> wrote: > > > From: 1T3XT BVBA <i...@1t3xt.info> > > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Place text in speacified x y > coordinate > > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > > Date: Thursday, 19 May, 2011, 9:05 PM > > Op 19/05/2011 17:09, karthik B > > schreef: > > > Hi, > > > I tried with the rectangle. It is perfectly matching > > with the inedisgn coordinates and my calculation to render. > > OK, now that you're sure about the coordinates of the > rectangle, use > > those coordinates in combination with ColumnText. > > > > ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(writer.getDirectContent()); > > ct.setSimpleColumn(x1, y1, x2, y2); > > ct.addText(new Phrase("Sample")); > > ct.go(); > > > > Or something like that, I wrote this from memory, you should check > > chapter 3 of the book for the correct syntax. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------- What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! > > Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its > > next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran > > developers boost performance applications - including clusters. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > > _______________________________________________ > > iText-questions mailing list > > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > > > iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. > > Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be > answered with a > > reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please > > check the keywords list before you ask for examples: > > http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! > Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach > of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* > C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - > including clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. > Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered > with a reference to the iText book: > http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list > before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
