Text overlap

[Ivan Ridao Freitas]

Hi, I'm designing an invoice with PDFBox. The only doubt I have is how 
to control text overlapping?
For example, if one line has a text at (x=10) and another at (x=100), 
how can I prevent the first text to overlap the second one.
I'm adding text with:
        content.beginText();
        content.newLineAtOffset(x, y);
        content.showText(text);
        content.endText();
I know how to calculate the string width and I could cut it until it 
fits, but is that the only approach?
Should I consider inserting a form field and then set the text to a 
PDTextField?

Thanks,
Ivan