Re: [iText-questions] MultiColumnText in non-automatic mode

2006-03-20 Thread Matt White
Bruno - I get the following error at both links: Bad Gateway The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. (With an HTTP 502 error.) I'm going to refactor the code to use ColumnText. I spent the weekend digging into MultiColumnText, and there's a few things in there I

Re: [iText-questions] MultiColumnText in non-automatic mode

2006-03-20 Thread bruno
Matt White wrote: Where can I get a copy of the modified code? SF's anonymous CVS is still down. This link seems to be much faster: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/itext/src/com/lowagie/text/pdf/MultiColumnText.java?rev=1.19 br, Bruno

Re: [iText-questions] MultiColumnText in non-automatic mode

2006-03-20 Thread bruno
Matt White wrote: Where can I get a copy of the modified code? SF's anonymous CVS is still down. (I know, I know, don't complain, it's free...) I don't know about the anonymous CVS, but I can see the changes using this link: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/itext/src/com/lowagie/text/pd

Re: [iText-questions] MultiColumnText in non-automatic mode

2006-03-20 Thread Matt White
Matt White wrote: > I haven't written the MultiColumnText class, but that's the way it was > designed. MultiColumnText is supposed to be a simple class for people > who are afraid of using ColumnText (if you had started writing your code > with ColumnText, you wouldn't have had all these problems)

Re: [iText-questions] MultiColumnText in non-automatic mode

2006-03-20 Thread bruno
Matt White wrote: Bruno - Now we're getting somewhere, it no longer goes into a loop. :) Attached is another example. As I understand the way MultiColumnText works, it should produce three columns at the bottom of the page. No, that would be the case if you had defined three irregular colum

Re: [iText-questions] MultiColumnText in non-automatic mode

2006-03-19 Thread Matt White
Bruno - Now we're getting somewhere, it no longer goes into a loop. :) Attached is another example. As I understand the way MultiColumnText works, it should produce three columns at the bottom of the page. Instead, it ignores the Y of the columns that I set, and puts them at the top of the page

Re: [iText-questions] MultiColumnText in non-automatic mode

2006-03-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Matt White wrote: Bruno - Thanks for the reply. Since anonymous CVS access for projects that begin with "i" is down at SourceForge (see http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?group_id=1&docid=2352) So I see. In class MultiColumnText, I added one line in this method: private void

Re: [iText-questions] MultiColumnText in non-automatic mode

2006-03-18 Thread Matt White
Bruno - Thanks for the reply. Since anonymous CVS access for projects that begin with "i" is down at SourceForge (see http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?group_id=1&docid=2352), is there someplace else I can get a copy of the dev tree? - Matt >>> Bruno Lowagie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03

Re: [iText-questions] MultiColumnText in non-automatic mode

2006-03-18 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Matt White wrote: Any clues on what I'm doing wrong are very welcomed. You're not doing anything wrong. I think it's a bug. I think I fixed it (see the CVS repository). br, Bruno --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking

[iText-questions] MultiColumnText in non-automatic mode

2006-03-17 Thread Matt White
Hello - I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with a MultiColumnText layout in non-automatic mode. An example is attached. If I call the MultiColumnText() constructor without any parameters it seems to work fine, but I can't specify the initial Y value for where I want the layout to appear. If I c