Am 10.03.2016 um 22:32 schrieb Blake McBride:
Thanks. I suppose my question is, how can I switch back and forth between
text and graphics mode on the same page? There would be no nesting, just
sequential switching back and forth. Can I do that, or am I restricted to
only a single text mode per page?
You can do it as often as you want.
You wrote "I tried contentStream.beginText() but it didn't work" - what
happened? Nothing? Could it be that the text is outside of the screen?
A good idea is to save and restory the graphics state, to avoid messing
things up.
Tilman
Thanks.
Blake
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:25 PM, John Hewson <[email protected]> wrote:
On 10 Mar 2016, at 13:14, Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Using 2.x here. I understand that I need to exit text mode via
contentStream.endText() before printing things like lines. Fine. But,
if
I contentStream.endText(), and print some lines, how can I re-enable text
mode? I tried contentStream.beginText() but it didn't work. Sure
appreciate any help!
These methods just emit PDF’s begin text (BT) and end text (ET) operators.
Basically, you only need to use them when you switch between text and
graphics. You can put as many lines and paragraphs of text as you like
inside
a single BT, ET pair:
BT
text….
text....
text...
ET
The text operators between BT and ET can draw text, update the text matrix,
make new lines, etc. Note that BT, ET are *never* nested.
Blake McBride
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