Hello,

As I did not receive any feedback yet, I have added two images 
illustrating the problem. My goal is: Left and right column
should have their top (the top of printed chars or images) on the same 
height.

Regards,

Peter Henningsen

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Hi, 

I have been searching and experimenting for some time now, but found no 
suitable solution (I got the book!). Maybe you have? 

The problem: 
I have two columns on one page to fill with content. No problem doing 
this, but the visible top of both 
columns is not aligned consistently. 
Columns are constructed via setSimpleColumn and filled in composite mode. 
iText version is 2.1.7

Positive example: The first item in the left column is an image (scaled to 
fit), the first item in the right column is a big title text. 
Image and Text are added using seperate columntext objects for each 
column. 
The top of the image is about half the fontsize higher than the top of the 
title text's glyphs UNLESS I use ct_title.setUseAscender(true)on the left 
column. 
So I do that and problem solved. 

Negative example 1: The first item in the left column is an image (scaled 
to fit) followed by body text. The text (one font-size only) runs down the 
left column 
and is continued in the right column. Here, ct_textbody.setUseAscender(
true) has no effect on the top of the right column. 

Negative example 2: The first item in the left column is a Paragraph with 
big font followed by body text. The text (one font-size only) runs down 
the left column 
and is continued in the right column. Here again, 
ct_textbody.setUseAscender(true) has no effect. 

So, is there a way to force columntext to kind of "re-do" its "first-line 
routine" when doing setSimpleColumn() on the right, before go()? 
Calling setUseAscender(true)once more before setSimpleColumn() did not 
change a thing. 

Thanks, 
Peter

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