Instead of spaces use a no-break space "\u00a0".
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joachim Kanbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 19:12
Subject: [iText-questions] Blanks and Character Wrapping
> Hello all,
>
> I have a little problem with wrapping. I want to fill whole lines with
> underlined spaces and I use fixed cell heights in a table. When I set a
> negative padding and setSplitCharacter(...), I can achieve that text
> exceeding the table width is just discarded, character by character.
> However, the wrapping with spaces seems to work different. I guess that
> all
> spaces are collapsed into white space and then just eliminated. When you
> run
> the following program you can see my problem. I need the spaces to stay
> there, because I have to use their underline as a layout element (that's
> a
> requirement I have to meet).
>
> Is there no other way to accomplish this than to change the source code
> of
> iText / subclass a class? If it is like that, where approximately would
> I
> have to make the adaptations? ;-)
>
>
> Best regards,
> Joachim Kanbach
>
>
> // Illustration code
> import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*;
> import com.lowagie.text.*;
> import java.io.*;
>
> public class Test1 {
> public Test1() {
> Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 0, 0, 0, 0);
> try {
>
> PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
> FileOutputStream("test1.pdf"));
> document.open();
>
> Font font = new Font(Font.COURIER, 10, Font.UNDERLINE);
>
> PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
> table.setTotalWidth(561);
>
> // first line
> Chunk ch1 = new Chunk(" 1", font);
> Chunk ch2 = new Chunk("
> 2", font);
> ch1.setSplitCharacter(new SplitCharacter() {
> public boolean isSplitCharacter(char c) {
> return true;
> }
> });
> ch2.setSplitCharacter(new SplitCharacter() {
> public boolean isSplitCharacter(char c) {
> return true;
> }
> });
>
> Phrase ph = new Phrase();
> ph.add(ch1);
> ph.add(ch2);
>
> PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(ph);
>
> cell.setPadding(0);
> cell.setPaddingTop(-12);
> cell.setPaddingBottom(2);
> cell.setLeading(12, 0);
> cell.setFixedHeight(12);
> cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
> table.addCell(cell);
>
> // second line
> ch1 = new Chunk(" 1", font);
> // This time one more space
> ch2 = new Chunk("
> 2", font);
> ch1.setSplitCharacter(new SplitCharacter() {
> public boolean isSplitCharacter(char c) {
> return true;
> }
> });
> ch2.setSplitCharacter(new SplitCharacter() {
> public boolean isSplitCharacter(char c) {
> return true;
> }
> });
>
> ph = new Phrase();
> ph.add(ch1);
> ph.add(ch2);
>
> cell = new PdfPCell(ph);
>
> cell.setPadding(0);
> cell.setPaddingTop(-12);
> cell.setPaddingBottom(2);
> cell.setLeading(12, 0);
> cell.setFixedHeight(12);
> cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
> table.addCell(cell);
>
> // third line
> // Instead of the whole line being filled by spaces
> // and jump to the next line, text is at beginning of the same line
> ch1 = new Chunk("
> 1", font);
> ch1.setSplitCharacter(new SplitCharacter() {
> public boolean isSplitCharacter(char c) {
> return true;
> }
> });
>
> ph = new Phrase();
> ph.add(ch1);
>
> cell = new PdfPCell(ph);
>
> cell.setPadding(0);
> cell.setPaddingTop(-12);
> cell.setPaddingBottom(2);
> cell.setLeading(12, 0);
> cell.setFixedHeight(12);
> cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
> table.addCell(cell);
>
> table.writeSelectedRows(0, -1, 17, 800, writer.getDirectContent());
> }
> catch(DocumentException de) {
> System.err.println(de.getMessage());
> }
> catch(IOException ioe) {
> System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
> }
> document.close();
> }
>
> public static void main(String[] args) {
> new Test1();
> }
> }
>
>
>
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