Re: [iText-questions] WordSpacing and CharacterSpacing

2008-01-29 Thread Stephan Michels
2008/1/28, Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jan 28, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Stephan Michels wrote: > > I can simply prevent orphans in a column if I check if the available > > height is smaller than e.g. 2 rows, then I put the paragraph into the > > next column. > > To prevent widows I have to

Re: [iText-questions] WordSpacing and CharacterSpacing

2008-01-28 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On Jan 28, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Stephan Michels wrote: > Sorry, I mixed widows and orphans before. I always do :-/ > Yeah, big difference ;). > The jusitfy alignment distributes only the available space in the row. > But I want more space to get an additional row or two. > Then I'

Re: [iText-questions] WordSpacing and CharacterSpacing

2008-01-28 Thread Stephan Michels
Sorry, I mixed widows and orphans before. I always do :-/ 2008/1/28, Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But if you are justifying the text, what purpose do character & word > spacing serve? The jusitfy alignment distributes only the available space in the row. But I want more space to get a

Re: [iText-questions] WordSpacing and CharacterSpacing

2008-01-28 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
But if you are justifying the text, what purpose do character & word spacing serve? Leonard On Jan 28, 2008, at 4:13 AM, Stephan Michels wrote: > 2008/1/28, mister bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> See p. 347-350 in the book. The methods you're looking for are >> setCharacterSpacing() and setWor

Re: [iText-questions] WordSpacing and CharacterSpacing

2008-01-28 Thread Stephan Michels
2008/1/28, mister bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > See p. 347-350 in the book. The methods you're looking for are > setCharacterSpacing() and setWordSpacing(). Thanks, but AFAICS those values get lost if you use justified text and it is not possible to define additional space. Stephan.

Re: [iText-questions] WordSpacing and CharacterSpacing

2008-01-28 Thread mister bean
See p. 347-350 in the book. The methods you're looking for are setCharacterSpacing() and setWordSpacing(). Best wishes, ---mr. bean Stephan Michels wrote: > > Hi, > > is it possible to set the word spacing and character spacing, for > example a paragraph? > I have to increase the values to p

[iText-questions] WordSpacing and CharacterSpacing

2008-01-28 Thread Stephan Michels
Hi, is it possible to set the word spacing and character spacing, for example a paragraph? I have to increase the values to prevent orphans in a column layout. I inspected the source code and found that PdfDocument.writeLineToContent() changed the values for justified lines, but no way to change