Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-27 Thread riffla
Great to find helpful people like you, thanks again... /R -- View this message in context: http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Keeping-things-together-in-the-same-line-tp3013994p3015074.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-27 Thread info
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:23:20 -0700 (PDT), riffla wrote: > In other words, as long as the character preceding a period is a non white > space character (or a line break etc.) the period will be considered as a > part of the preceding block of characters, am I right? Yes, you are right. Also thank

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-27 Thread riffla
Thanks again for helpful replies... Did have a second look in the code generating the PDF, and I think I've missed a part here. Using property files to retrieve words/sentences to be added I sometimes add a white space and sometimes not depending om different conditions. And in this case I think

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-26 Thread 1T3XT info
On 27/10/2010 8:38, 1T3XT info wrote: > Yes, > if I understand correctly, Oops, I think I wasn't awake when I wrote the previous answer. I thought you only wanted to split lines when a period was encountered. On second thoughts, you want to split lines on the last space character before each per

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-26 Thread 1T3XT info
On 27/10/2010 8:26, riffla wrote: > > OK. > This is a short example > . > > And this is another > example. > > Looking at the two sentences above, the first one is the situation I want to > avoid. Looking at the position of the the period, this character alone has > been pushed to a new line, in co

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-26 Thread riffla
OK. This is a short example . And this is another example. Looking at the two sentences above, the first one is the situation I want to avoid. Looking at the position of the the period, this character alone has been pushed to a new line, in contrast to the second one where the word 'example' jo

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-26 Thread 1T3XT info
On 26/10/2010 18:00, riffla wrote: > Now I need a strategy on how to prevent situations where only a full stop > (period) is moved to next row - in this case I want the preceeding word also > to be moved to next row, otherwise it would look strange Can you give an example. I don't understand the q

[iText-questions] Keeping things together in the same line

2010-10-26 Thread riffla
Hi I wonder if anyone has an idea on how to solve this. In generating a PDF from a web form and some property files the application ends up concatenating lots of phrases and words depending on different parameters. I've managed to solve issues about page breaking using tables counting rows and r

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-06-02 Thread Michael Caletka
1, 2006 6:03 PMTo: Post all your questions about iText hereSubject: Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together But there IS an output on the next page! Bruno had explained, that the ct.go(true) can be used to see, if the elements fit on a page, and if not I can create a new page

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-06-01 Thread Paulo Soares
[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michael CaletkaSent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:56 PM To: Post all your questions about iText hereSubject: Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together Now a different problem has appeared. When I simulate the add

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Caletka
006 3:56 PMTo: Post all your questions about iText hereSubject: Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together Now a different problem has appeared. When I simulate the additions, it seems, that the part, that doesn't fit on the first page gets printed anyways on the second page, and th

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-06-01 Thread Paulo Soares
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael CaletkaSent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:56 PMTo: Post all your questions about iText hereSubject: Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together Now a different problem has appeared. When I simulate the add

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-06-01 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of bruno > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:44 AM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together > > Michael

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Caletka
Please let me know, when the book will be available. I will order a copy for sure!Many thanks againMichael2006/6/1, bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:Michael Caletka wrote:> Sorry, AddElement DOES do the job! Somehow I must have been confused a > little.It is very important not to mix setText and addEleme

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-06-01 Thread bruno
Michael Caletka wrote: > Sorry, AddElement DOES do the job! Somehow I must have been confused a > little. It is very important not to mix setText and addElement. I explain this in my book (that will probably be released in November), but it's difficult to explain in a few sentences in a mail. br

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Caletka
Sorry, AddElement DOES do the job! Somehow I must have been confused a little...Thanks again  Michael2006/5/31, bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:Michael Caletka wrote:> As far as I can see in the examples of the tutorial, you always have > to give the Column a rectangle in absolute positions. I don't

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Caletka
Dear Bruno,Thanks for your patience, examples and explanations. Now I think at last I'm getting somewhere - thank you very much! Just one final question: How can I add PdfPtable-objects to the ColumnText? AddElement didn't do the job, nor adding the table to a Phrase or Paragraph first. What am I d

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-31 Thread bruno
Michael Caletka wrote: As far as I can see in the examples of the tutorial, you always have to give the Column a rectangle in absolute positions. I don't have the positions beforehand, ??? so I can't define a rectangle of positions for adding my paragraphs, chunks and tables in. When you

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-31 Thread Michael Caletka
Okay, perhaps I don't understand the ColumnText object.As far as I can see in the examples of the tutorial, you always have to give the Column a rectangle in absolute positions. I don't have the positions beforehand, so I can't define a rectangle of positions for adding my paragraphs, chunks and ta

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-31 Thread bruno
Michael Caletka wrote: Hm. Maybe it's really too hard to explain properly Yet I will give it one more try: I don't have any columns on my document, so ColumnText is out. That's a misconception. As soon as you want to add text to a document, you have a column. (A single column is also a c

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-31 Thread Michael Caletka
Hm. Maybe it's really too hard to explain properlyYet I will give  it one more try:I don't have any columns on my document, so ColumnText is out. (I tried it, but wasn't satisfied with the results)I just have some paragraphs, tables and chunks. These elements shall all be added to some main-par

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-29 Thread bruno
Michael Caletka wrote: ?? How do I keep track of the y-coordinate when adding Chunks and Paragraphs to a document? Don't add Chunks and Paragraphs directly. Use ColumnText for everything you are adding. (Chances are that I don't understand your requirements.) br, Bruno -

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Caletka
??How do I keep track of the y-coordinate when adding Chunks and Paragraphs to a document?All the bestMichael2006/5/29, bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:Michael Caletka wrote:> Thanks Bruno, for the answer, but it doesn't solve the problem. ???As far as I understand your problem, it does.> I have lots of

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-29 Thread bruno
Michael Caletka wrote: Thanks Bruno, for the answer, but it doesn't solve the problem. ??? As far as I understand your problem, it does. I have lots of paragraphs, and I have no idea beforehand how big they will get, or how small, so defining x and y-positions beforehand (like you have to d

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Caletka
Thanks Bruno, for the answer, but it doesn't solve the problem. I have lots of paragraphs, and I have no idea beforehand how big they will get, or how small, so defining x and y-positions beforehand (like you have to do when working with ColumnText) won't help me very much. Some paragraphs willl co

Re: [iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-24 Thread bruno
Michael Caletka wrote: Hi, I use the latest version of iText 1.4.1, which is a fabulous tool! However today I encountered a rather strange effect. I have declared a Paragrah, and want it to be kept together Use ColumnText to avoid widows/orphans. Then I created a PdfPTable: After this I a

[iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Caletka
Hi,I use the latest version of iText 1.4.1, which is a fabulous tool! However today I encountered a rather strange effect. I have declared a Paragrah, and want it to be kept together:    Paragraph p = new Paragraph();     p.setSpacingBefore(16);    p.setSpacingAfter(10);

[iText-questions] Keeping things together

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Caletka
Hi,I use the latest version of iText 1.4.1, which is a fabulous tool! However today I encountered a rather strange effect. I have declared a Paragrah, and want it to be kept together:    Paragraph p = new Paragraph();     p.setSpacingBefore(16);    p.setSpacingAfter(10);