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Maruan Sahyoun commented on PDFBOX-2618:
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I’m not looking into creating a typesetting application. But some **basic**
block setting is needed for multiline form fields otherwise we will not be able
to create the appearance for these.
And I do agree - we shouldn’t be replicating FOP.
> Create paragraphs with PDFBox
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-2618
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2618
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Writing
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
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> [~mkl] wrote this morning on stackoverflow on the topic about creating tables
> with PDFBox:
> {quote}I'm afraid all those samples IMO meely are proofs of concept, probably
> of use in limited use cases but by far not for generic use. PDFBox has its
> strengths, e.g. a quite versatile content extraction framework and a content
> rendering capability, but the absence a proper layouting API is a serious
> weakness.{quote}
> To which I answered:
> {quote}I know... I just don't want to create another iText. We're not the
> Samwer brothers.{quote}
> But he's right. We could of course look at what iText offers and implement
> that on our own, that wouldn't even be illegal, but it wouldn't be nice. I've
> never looked at or used iText, except once when answering this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/26820598/535646
> IMO what we need to start, is a method to write a paragraph to a PDF. Such a
> method would have these parameters:
> - text
> - rectangle (or width and height from current position)
> Such a method would then output the text and break the lines at the end of
> the rectangle, and throw an exception if the space isn't enough.
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