Hi Brian

>I took a look at the diffs and had an idea.  Since TextPosition now  
>returns coordinates and such that are adjusted for various rotations  
>and changes in the 0,0 location, perhaps the new getTextPos() method  
>should also adjust the matrix for the 0,0 location. Then none of the  
>callers need to deal with converting the values (since they no longer  
>need to deal with the conversions when getting the X and Y  
>coordinates either).  Or, the TextPosition could create and return an  
>AffineTransform object.
I had a similar idea. My first attempt looked like this:

- I've added a method to the class TextPosition to get the AffineTransform
- I've used the getX/getY-methods to get the starting-coords

But then I realized, that I can't get the unmodified starting-coords from 
TextPosition. 
They are always altered in some way concerning the rotation. So finally I had to
decide if I add 3 new methods (1 for the AffineTransform and 2 for X and Y) to 
the class
TextPosition or if I just get the textPos and put the logic into 
PageDrawer.showCharacter().
I've choosen alternativ 2.

At this point I've a questions concerning your changes to the class 
TextPosition:

There is a pair of methods getX and getXDirAdj (there are similar pairs for Y 
and Width).
Both are returning the same value. Was that your intention? If not, I would 
suggest to change
them. For example getX/Y/Width returns the unmodified values and 
getX/Y/WidthDirAdj returns the
modified values. Consequently I would alter my patch to put some of the logic 
from PageDrawer
to TextPosition.

Andreas



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