You have to use the html 3.2 <font>. I'll add support this week for the style attribute.
Paulo ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] HTML-formatted text Hi Paulo, Thanks for taking the time to answer me. OK. I searched the mailing list archives on "HTMLWorker". But as far as I can see, you have to define/know your style beforehand: StyleSheet style = new StyleSheet(); style.loadTagStyle("div", "color", "red"); java.io.StringReader sr = new java.io.StringReader( "<div style=\"color=\"red\" \">This is the TITLE in red.</div>"); java.util.ArrayList list = HTMLWorker.parseToList(sr, style); PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1); table.addCell( new PdfPCell( (Paragraph)list.get(0) ) ); document.add(table); If I leave out the line style.loadTagStyle("div", "color", "red"); I don't get the resulting line in the PDF file in red. So, I have to "parse" myself what's inside the HTML string, to be able to apply the needed tagstyles to become the correct result? That's not what I had expected. I expected to simply feed HTMLWorker some HTML string and to have HTMLWorker interpret it according to its content with as a result a Paragraph containing text formatted according to what's in the HTML string. In fact, if you have to specify the styles to use yourself 'beforehand', what's the use of HTMLWorker in my case where the user can enter whatever HTML code he wants in the HTML string? E.g. <div style=\"color=\"red\" \">This is the TITLE in red with the last word in </div> <div style=\"color=\"red\" \">green</div> Can I conclude that HTMLWorker is not usable in this case? Thanks for your time. Geert ----- Original Message ----- From: Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 8:25 PM Subject: Re: HTML-formatted text >> Use HTMLWorker. It will give you a list of paragraphs that you can use >> anywhere such as positioning it absolutely with ColumnText. >> Paulo ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:21 PM Subject: HTML-formatted text Hi, In my app I have to create PDF hard copies of the reports created on the screen (Save as PDF) The header of a report is defined by the user himself. He's allowed to use HTML formatting to format the header according to his whishes. A possible (simple) header string could be: <div style=\"color:red; font-size:16px\">This is the header in red.</div> Now the only possible way to add HTML formatted text to a PDF document I found is using HtmlParser.parse(): String content = "<div style=\"color:red; font-size:16px\">This is text in red.</div>"; java.io.StringReader reader = new java.io.StringReader("<p>"+content+"</p>"); com.lowagie.text.html.HtmlParser.parse(document, reader); This works OK. Now my question is this: how can I get (a reference to) the Chunk, Paragraph, Section or wathever element iText creates when it writes that HTML formatted text in the PDF file? In fact I want to create a table with that HTML formatted text in one of the cells. Is that possible? In that case the method HtmlParser.parse(document,...) doesn't help me much. How do I do it? Second question: (How) can I position that HTML-formatted text absolutely? Kind Regards, Geert Delmeiren PS. Bruno, I recently discovered you're a compatriot of me ;?) Nice work iText is! -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
