On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 1:26 PM Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 17.05.2019 um 15:54 schrieb Christopher Schultz: > > It occurs to me that my code is doing more work than necessary to > > print paragraphs, and that maybe manual word-wrapping is not > > necessary. Are there any examples that show how to print a paragraph > > of text without having to compute the width of text and manually chop > > things up into lines? Or is that part of the price of PDF? > > > There is no feature in PDF that does automatic word wrap. Yes you have > to do it yourself. > > There is a class in the PDFBox source code, PlainTextFormatter, that can > also do it, but it was designed for form fields. It is used in > AppearanceGeneratorHelper. You'd have to copy the code, it is not public. > > Tilman > About a year ago I converted PDF code from iText to PDFBox. One issue to resolve was wordwrap. This snippet from Stack Overflow was very helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14107244/1316011 -- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v. 111-13)
