You are setting the leading in ct.setSimpleColumn() to 0. Change it to 8 and it will work.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 20:19 Subject: [iText-questions] Phrase second line overlapping first > Hi, > > I'm trying to put text in a certain place on a page by > using ColumnText.setSimpleColumn(). All the text is > going where I want it to. The problem, though, is if > the text in the Phrase I pass to setSimpleColunn() is > more than one line long, the second line is > overlapping the first. > > You can see an example of my output at > http://tempest.jumptech.com/labels.pdf > > Here's a code snippet of the page creation: > > > PdfWriter pdfWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, > out); > > doc.open(); > > PdfContentByte cb = pdfWriter.getDirectContent(); > ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb); > > > loop rows { > loop cols { > > Phrase titlePhrase = new Phrase(name + "\n", > new Font(Font.HELVETICA, 8, FOnt.BOLD)); > > ct.setSimpleColumn(titlePhrase, > (float)lowerLeft.getX(), > (float)lowerLeft.getY(), > (float)(lowerLeft.getX() + > labelSize.getWidth()), > (float)(lowerLeft.getY() - > labelSize.getHeight()), > (float)0, Element.ALIGN_LEFT); > > ct.go(); > > recalculateLoweLeft; > } > } > > > Any idea why this might be happening? > > Thanx in advance. > > Norton > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board > for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! > http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
