I modified the code to call
columnText.setRunDirection(PdfWriter_DIRECTION_LTR)
and now the mix english and arabic text is displaying somewhat correctly.
However
in some cases the mix english and arabic text is still not being displayed
properly.
Especially when there are special chars and numbers involved (e.g. '(' ,
')').
For example for the following mix english and arabic text string:
'Source: Journal Title, Vol. 0, No. 21, The Lyrical Phenomenon/
<some_arabic_text>, (2001) , pp. 128-160'
For some strange reason the mix text is outputted to the PDF as:
'Source: Journal Title, Vol. 0, No. 21, The Lyrical Phenomenon/ 2001)
<some_arabic_text>), pp. 128-160'
That is the (2001) is not getting displayed correctly as it appeared in the
original text string. Do anyone knows how to prevent this from happening ?
See my code snippet below:
Paragraph para = new Paragraph();
para.add(new Phrase("Source: ", unicodeFont));
para.add(new Phrase(mixEnglishArabicSourceStr, unicodeItalicFont));
para.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
columnText.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_LTR) ;
columnText.addText(para);
columnText.go()
David
Paulo Soares wrote:
>
> You must call columnText.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL) or
> columnText.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_LTR).
>
> Paulo
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of dayvidpow
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:08 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Phrase containing
>> Chunks/Phrase with multiple Run Directions
>>
>>
>> As suggested, I added all the English and Arabic text to a
>> Paragraph and then
>> set
>> the alignment to Element.ALIGN_LEFT (see code sample below).
>> However, the
>> mix English and Arabic text output on the same line is still
>> not correct.
>> The Arabic
>> text is not getting rendered correctly.
>>
>> I believe the problem is that English has a run direction of
>> Left-to-Right
>> and Arabic text
>> has a run direction of Right-to-Left, but there is no way of
>> specifying this
>> for each
>> piece of Arabic or English text added to the Paragraph.
>>
>> Am I missing something here ?
>>
>> Paragraph para = new Paragraph();
>> para.add(new Phrase("Author(s): ", unicodeFont));
>> para.add(new Phrase(english_author_name_str1+"/ ",
>> unicodeItalicFont));
>> para.add(new Phrase(arabic_author_name_str1+", ",
>> unicodeItalicFont));
>> ....
>> para.add(new Phrase(english_author_name_strN+"/ ",
>> unicodeItalicFont));
>> para.add(new Phrase(arabic_author_name_strN+", ",
>> unicodeItalicFont));
>> para.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
>> columnText.addText(para);
>> columnText.go()
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>> Paulo Soares wrote:
>> >
>> > 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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