Hi, I'm looking to see if there is a preferred workflow for rendering text within a specified area of the PDF page.
Currently, we have users that are allowed to enter comments to our database, which will then get rendered in PDF form upon request. My basic flow is as follows: Get text from DB. *Sub spaces in for tabs. *Remove any unicode control characters. Word by word, use PDFont#getStringWidth() to determine if my growing string is wider than the area I want my text to be contained in. If yes, draw the text and continue on. If no, continue adding words until width is reached. Aside from any feedback on my general process, I have a specific question: The asterisks above indicate that this was a problem area for me. Since our users tend to write these comments in something like Word, and then copy and paste into our web page, we tend to get some unexpected characters that end up making PDFont#getStringWidth() throw an IOException. It also seems that any "line breaking" characters and tabs do the same. Has there been any discussion on having that method default a width to 0 when it encounters characters/glyphs that are non-renderable or line breaking? Thanks for you time and any help you can provide. Justin D. Fetherolf Software Engineer Radix Metasystems
