Bruno Lowagie wrote:
Ilja Livenson wrote:
Hi,
I'm kind of stuck with this problem: the document I'm doing has a
pretty complex form so I would really would like to specify Polygon
(instead of Rectangle) for the form of the SimpleCell (which would
look like this: http://ilja.webmedia.ee/cell.gif ). Is it possible at
all? Or is there some clever hack for achieving the same result?
See http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/objects/columns/
look for the word irregular.
br,
Bruno
Hello, Bruno,
thanks for your reply, but it seems I'm too dumb to understand how it
should work. For instance, why wouldn't the following proof-of-concept work?
----
Document document = new Document();
try {
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, out);
document.open();
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb);
float[] left = {10, 10, 20, 20};
float[] right = {0, 0, 30, 30};
ct.addText(new Phrase("bla-bla bla-bla-bla-bla bla-bla bla-bla
foo!\n", FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 12)));
ct.setColumns(left, right);
ct.go();
}
catch(DocumentException de) {
System.err.println(de.getMessage());
}
catch(IOException ioe) {
System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
}
document.close();
----
The compiler says that
ExceptionConverter: java.io.IOException: The document has no pages.
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPages.writePageTree(PdfPages.java:119)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter.close(PdfWriter.java:1180)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfDocument.close(PdfDocument.java:934)
at com.lowagie.text.Document.close(Document.java:500)
But why? Shouldn't the ct.go() flush the output to pdf? Unfortunately,
I'm no export on pdf format so the last sentence could very well be
stupid :)
Cheers,
Ilja
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