Dear all,
I searched the complete archive, the demos and the documentation but I
can't find any solution for my - as I thought - simple challenge.
Imagine a XHTML-styled text like this:
<p color="#ffffff" fontFamily="Alte_Haas_Grotesk_Bold" fontSize="16"
lineHeight="19" textAlign="center"><span color="#ffffff"
fontFamily="Alte_Haas_Grotesk_Bold" fontSize="16" lineHeight="19"
renderingMode="inherit">Familie Punkt<br/></span><span color="#ffffff"
fontFamily="Alte_Haas_Grotesk_Bold" fontSize="12" lineHeight="16"
renderingMode="inherit">Polkaweg 23 A<br/>12345 Punktumpunkt<br/>
pu...@kommastrich.de</span></p>
(this is generated by TLF component of Flash)
I already can parse the HTML and transform the elements to equivalent
iText-elements which results (in short) in:
- Paragraph (for <p>)
--- Phrase (for first <span>)
--- Phrase (for second <span>)
As you can see there are different lineHeight attributes per <span> and a
lineHeight for <p>.
What I want is: have a paragraph with a default leading of 19 containing a
phrase with leading 19 and another phrase with leading 16.
As soon as I use a paragraph and add the two phrases to it, only the
leading of the first paragraph will be used:
Paragraph p = new Paragraph();
Phrase phrase1 = new Phrase(16f, "Hello world 16 leading\n");
Phrase phrase2 = new Phrase(32f, "Hello world 32 leading\n");
Phrase phrase3 = new Phrase(16f, "Hello world 16 leading\n");
p.Add(phrase1);
p.Add(phrase2);
p.Add(phrase3);
So I tried to avoid the paragraph (which I actually need for alignment, but
I think I could to that with PdfPCell) and added the phrases directly to
the doc.
Guess what? Still no difference in spacing between phrases. So I changed
phrase2 and added a line break:
Phrase phrase2 = new Phrase(32f, "Hello world\n32 leading\n");
Now I can see that spacing between the phrases is still the same, but at
least the spacing between the two lines in phrase2 is actually 32.
Phrase doesn't implement SpacingBefore, so I can't even use that for a
workaround. Only way could be to use three paragraphs instead of three
phrases, but I can't do that since a paragraph will always create a new
line which I don't want.
I even tried XMLWorker demo and used style="line-spacing: 32px;" to see to
what it's going to be converted, but the lines in generated pdf do have the
same spacing as well.
Is there any other property then leading which I could use? When I try
InDesign and increase the line spacing for a second line, its distance
ABOVE the font increases. This is the behaviour I want to achieve.
So with phrases, the only possible solution left seems to be a big dirty
workaround with a lot of newlines faking the "SpacingBefore" for each
phrase, and adding them to a cell instead of a paragraph.
Am I wrong? Is there any other solution?
Regards
Chris
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