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From: "Steve Appling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 20:50
Subject: [iText-questions] MultiColumnText
> Ever since Christian Lauer posted some questions about adding ColumnText
directly to a document,
> I've been thinking about how I would want to use it. Last night I made a
helper class
> (MultiColumnText) that is an element and can be added to a document
directly. It can handle regular
> or irregular columns and can either have a fixed height or flow to fill
each page until all of its
> content is rendered. ColumnText is doing all the hard work underneath.
>
> To test it I made a random iText poem generator. This snippet shows how
MultiColumnText is used:
> // param is height, AUTOMATIC fills full pages until out of content
> MultiColumnText mct = new
MultiColumnText(MultiColumnText.AUTOMATIC);
>
> // params are left edge, right edge, gutter width, number of
columns
> mct.addRegularColumns(document.left(), document.right(), 10f, 3);
>
> for (int i=0; i<30; i++) {
> mct.addElement(newPara(randomWord(noun), Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE,
Font.BOLDITALIC));
> for (int j=0; j<4; j++ ) {
> mct.addElement(newPara(poemLine(), Element.ALIGN_LEFT,
Font.NORMAL));
> }
> mct.addElement(newPara(randomWord(adverb), Element.ALIGN_LEFT,
Font.NORMAL));
> mct.addElement(newPara("\n\n", Element.ALIGN_LEFT,
Font.NORMAL));
> }
>
> document.add(mct);
>
>
> Would anyone be interested in something like this? I'll be glad to
contribute MultiColumnText or
I'm interested. There's nothing to generate multicolumn out of the box.
> enhance it if anyone thinks it is useful. I have attached the resulting
iText poems for your
> amusement (I'm apparently easily amused). I liked the line "drunken
PdfPTable halts finally" (no
> offense intended Paulo).
>
We can't avert fate... The truth is out there.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
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