1T3XT info <info <at> 1t3xt.info> writes:
>
> I would work with ColumnText.
>
> For the first page, I would add the first page of the template
> without the fields as the background of my new document.
> I would retrieve the positions of the fixed items, and put them
> on the page using ColumnText.
>
> Then I would create a ColumnText object for the unstructured content;
> I would add the unstructured content using paragraphs, tables,...
> I would also call go() on a regular basis. Whenever a new page is
> needed, I would add a new page with the second page of the template
> as background.
Brilliant,
I ended up using a PdfPageEventHelper to set the template to either first page,
or follow-up page types and then put my content into 2 columnText blocks (for
left and right sides of the page) - since either could be >1 page long..
Then I wrote a little block of code to continue to add pages so long as either
columnText had content still to write out:
do
{
int iLeftColHasMore = ct.go();
int iRightColHasMore = ctRight.go();
ct.setSimpleColumn(35.2716f, 105.56f, 137.131f, 704.298f, 12.0f,
Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
ctRight.setSimpleColumn(154.747f, 65.5776f, 577.704f, 703.88f, 12.0f,
Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
if (ColumnText.hasMoreText(iLeftColHasMore) ||
ColumnText.hasMoreText(iRightColHasMore))
{
document.newPage();
Phrase pageNumTitle = new Phrase();
pageNumTitle.add(new Chunk("Page " + iPageNumber,
PDFNoteUtil.NOTETYPE));
setPageHeader(writer, document, pageNumTitle,
veVisit.getPatient());
iPageNumber++;
}
}
while (ColumnText.hasMoreText(ct.go()) || ColumnText.hasMoreText(ctRight.go()));
Works GREAT! Thanks for all of your help.
On to a new challenge -- I'd like to have lists as part of one of the
columnTexts, but have learned that that's unsupported (and I even think I
understand why). But I can't seem to hack my way around it. I need the
columnText magic to span pages, but I'd like to take advantage of lists (and
images, etc)...
I can't seem to use any indentation voodoo on the inner paragraphs as well (they
all seem to be ignored when nested inside of CT?) I was thinking of trying to
use a negative indent to fake it, but can't make that work.
So - how does one have a multipage spanning CT (or the like) and get to use/fake
numbered lists?
Thanks again.
Dan
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