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Examples of word-wrapping
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Hello,
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?
Thanks,
- -chris
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Re: Examples of word-wrapping
Posted by Thad Humphries <th...@gmail.com>.
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 1:26 PM Tilman Hausherr <TH...@t-online.de>
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
--
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Re: Examples of word-wrapping
Posted by Tilman Hausherr <TH...@t-online.de>.
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
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