You can mix English and Arabic text in the same line and both will work
correctly. You may use the alignment LTR. Both texts must be in the same
Paragraph.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of dayvidpow
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:25 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Phrase containing
> Chunks/Phrase with multiple Run Directions
>
>
> The proposed 2 column solution will not work for my special situation.
> Basically, I am reading some journal metadata from xml files
> and using this
> data to generate and insert a coverpage into existing PDFs.
>
> The journal metadata is of varying length and in various languages.
> Some of the metadata contains text in 2 different languages with
> 2 different RUN DIRECTION eg. English and Arabic or English
> and Hebrew.
> So for example: a journal article may have multiple authors -
> some with English names and some with Arabic names. So the
> output should be:
>
> Title: <english_article_title> / <arabic_article_title>
> Author(s): <englishname>, <english_name>, <arabic_name>,
> <arabic_name>...<arabic_name>
>
> Now in these special cases i am trying to output the English
> portion of the
> text
> and the Arabic portion of the text together on the same line with auto
> wrapping
> and in the proper order. The data varies in length therefore
> i cannot use
> absolute
> positioning (showTextAligned, PdfPTable, etc).
>
> I don;t know , but maybe this cannot be accomplished using iText ?
>
> David
>
>
> Paulo Soares wrote:
> >
> > I think that what you require are different alignments in
> the same line.
> > It's possible to achieve that with a PdfPTable with two
> columns without
> > borders, one left aligned and the other right aligned, both
> with no wrap
> > set.
> >
> > Paulo
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> >> Behalf Of dayvidpow
> >> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 6:31 PM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: [iText-questions] Phrase containing Chunks/Phrase
> >> with multiple Run Directions
> >>
> >>
> >> Currently, in iText I can create a new Phrase object with a
> >> main font and
> >> then within the Phrase I can have additional Chunks or Phrases with
> >> different fonts. Therefore, likewise would it be possible
> to create a
> >> Phrase with a main run direction and then add additional
> >> Chunks or Phrases
> >> to it with different run directions ?
> >>
> >> I know that iText does not currently support thism, but I am
> >> just looking at
> >> how i can possibly extend the Phrase class to meet a special
> >> need, Which is
> >> to output some text in left-to-right and right-to-left
> >> language on the same
> >> line using ColumnText.go() method, instead of
> >> ColumnText.showTextAligned
> >> (which requires absolute positioning).
> >>
> >> Can the Phrase class be extended in this way ?
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