You can call pdfPCell.getPhrase() to get the text.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
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From: "Philip Petrescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 13:04
Subject: [iText-questions] Vertical text in PdfPCell
> Hi everyone,
>
> I know this question has been asked before, but I still can't figure
> out what the answer is. I am trying to write the text within a
> PdfPCell vertically, instead of horizontally.
>
> I searched for this topic and found the following answer from Paulo:
>
> "set the cell with a fixed height and use a PdfPCellEvent to paint the
> text or whatever you want with the PdfContentByte provided."
>
> So that's what I tried to do (see the code below). The problem is that
> in the cellLayout method from the MyCellEvent, I still don't know how
> to tell the "existing" text from the cell to display vertically.
>
> I would really appreciate any help with this matter.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Philip
>
> class MyCellEvent implements PdfPCellEvent
> {
> public void cellLayout(PdfPCell pdfPCell, Rectangle rectangle,
> PdfContentByte[] pdfContentBytes)
> {
> PdfContentByte cb = pdfContentBytes[PdfPTable.TEXTCANVAS];
>
> // here I need to tell the cell that the text should be displayed
vertically
> // not horizontally, but I do not know how to do that.
> cb.beginText();
>
> Chunk chunk = (Chunk) pdfPCell.getPhrase().get(0);
> cb.setFontAndSize(chunk.font().getBaseFont(), chunk.font().size());
>
> // as you can see, I was able to write an additional text here
(vertically)
> // but this is not what I want. I need to tell the text that is
already in
> // the cell to be displayed vertically! How do I do that?
> cb.setTextMatrix(0, 1, -1, 0, rectangle.right(), rectangle.top());
> cb.showText("Text");
>
> cb.endText();
> }
> }
>
> // create table
> PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(4);
>
> Font font = ReportUtils.GetFont(10, Font.NORMAL, Color.BLACK);
> Chunk chunk = new Chunk(aCellString, font);
>
> // create cell
> PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(20, chunk));
> cell.setFixedHeight(100);
>
> // set cell event
> MyCellEvent event = new MyCellEvent();
> cell.setCellEvent(event);
>
> // add cell to table
> aTable.addCell(cell);
>
>
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