You'll probably need PdfPTable to do such measurements.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janarthan S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 16:00
Subject: Height of table when cell contains a huge text
> Hi,
>
> I am using itext in my project. It is simply great !!!
>
> I have a method that adds cells to a table that gets called in a loop -
>
> private void addToTable(Table vTable, String vText) {
> Chunk mChunk = new Chunk(vText,
> FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.COURIER, 20, Font.ITALIC, new Color(255,
> 0, 0)));
> Cell mCell = new Cell();
> mCell.setBorderColor(Color.WHITE);
> mCell.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);
>
> mCell.add(mChunk);
>
> vTable.addCell(mCell);
> }
>
> The table is defined as -
> Table mTable = new Table(1);
>
> I am also calculating the height of the table (in int) as -
> int mTableHeight = (int) (vTable.getDimension().getHeight()) * (int)(72
> / 2.5);
>
>
> The problem occurs, when the String that is passed too long.
> For an example String is
> "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa".
>
> This String gets wrapped in the cell. I can accept that. But the height
> of the table remains the same. As the word gets wrapped, it takes more
> space and more height, but the height as returned by
> vTable.getDimension().getHeight() remains the same. I think the height
> depends on number of rows in the table.
>
> Is there any way for calculating the actual (may the text in any cell be
> any long) height of the table ?
>
> Thanks,
> Janarthan S
>
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