DottedLineSeparator and paragraph alignment

[Mathias Nilsson]

Hi,

When using the DottedLineSeparator I can get it to work if the Paragraph is aligned left.

I have a columnText and a pdftable with one cell. The paragraph is added to the cell.
If I have 3 chunks and the middle is a DottedLineSeparator then it will only work if the paragraph is aligned left.

If I use center or right the bounds are not kept. The text does not stay in the columnText and the pdftable. I have used fixed width and height for the table.

Any clues?

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Mathias Nilsson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When using the DottedLineSeparator I can get it to work if the Paragraph is
> aligned left.
>
> I have a columnText and a pdftable with one cell. The paragraph is added to
> the cell.
> If I have 3 chunks and the middle is a DottedLineSeparator then it will only
> work if the paragraph is aligned left.
>
> If I use center or right the bounds are not kept. The text does not stay in
> the columnText and the pdftable. I have used fixed width and height for the
> table.
>
> Any clues?

Please make a small standalone example reproducing the problem and I'll
have a look at it.
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[Mathias Nilsson]

Hi,

I hope I'm not making a simple mistake here but here is some simple code.

package se.edgesoft;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import com.lowagie.text.Chunk;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.Element;
import com.lowagie.text.Font;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.CMYKColor;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.ColumnText;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfSpotColor;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.SpotColor;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.draw.DottedLineSeparator;

public class Test {


        public static void main(String args[]) {

                Document doc = new Document();
                try {

                        SpotColor pink = new SpotColor(new PdfSpotColor("PANTONE 708 M", 1.0f,new CMYKColor(0.0f, 0.46f, 0.22f, 0.0f)));
                        CMYKColor gray = new CMYKColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.2f);
                       
                        PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, new FileOutputStream("d:/pdf/test.pdf"));

                        doc.open();
                        PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
                        cb.roundRectangle(150, 150, 150, 150, 10f);
                        cb.setColorFill(pink);
                        cb.setLineWidth(1f);
                        cb.setColorStroke(gray);
                        cb.fillStroke();
                       

                        ColumnText ct = new ColumnText( cb );
                        ct.setSimpleColumn( 150, 150, 300, 300, 8, Element.ALIGN_LEFT );
                       
                       
                        /**
                         * Only set the nessesary settings
                         */
                        PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
                        table.setTotalWidth( 150 );
                        table.setWidthPercentage(100);
                        PdfPCell cell =  new PdfPCell();
                        cell.setBorderWidth( 0 );
                        cell.setVerticalAlignment( Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE ); // Top, Middle, bottom
                        cell.setFixedHeight( 150 );

                               
                        Paragraph pr = new Paragraph();
                        pr.setLeading(  12f );
                        pr.setExtraParagraphSpace(0);
                       
                        /**
                         * If we align left it will work but not right, center
                         */
                        pr.setAlignment( Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);

                        Font font = new Font(Font.COURIER, 8, Font.BOLD);
                        font.setColor( gray );

                       
                        pr.add( new Chunk( "This is a test", font ) );
                        pr.add( new Chunk( new DottedLineSeparator() ));
                        pr.add( new Chunk( "continue", font ));
                       

                        cell.addElement( pr );
                        table.addCell(cell);
                        ct.addElement( table );
                        ct.go();


                } catch (Exception ex) {
                        ex.printStackTrace();
                }finally{
                        doc.close();
                }
        }

}

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Mathias Nilsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope I'm not making a simple mistake here but here is some simple code.

Either your example doesn't really make sense,
or I don't understand what you're trying to achieve.

People use the DottedLineSeparator in left aligned paragraphs because
they want part of the paragraph to be right aligned.
The result is a paragraph that is "justified" on both sides.

Now you say: I want to use the DottedLineSeparator, but I want the text
to be right aligned. But if you set the alignment to left aligned, using
the DottedLineSeparator will also achieve right alignment. Why the need
to set the alignment to RIGHT_ALIGNED?

I honestly don't understand what you are trying to achieve.
I also don't understand why you draw a round rectangle and then wrap a
table inside a columntext. Wouldn't it be easier to just draw a table at
an absolute position and use a cell event to draw the rounded borders
and background? Also what is the point of combining setTotalWidth and
setWidthPercentage? Those are contradictory methods.

Strange constructs like that confuse me big time, and I find it hard to
understand what kind of answer you expect.
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Mathias Nilsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope I'm not making a simple mistake here but here is some simple code.

I've added a fix to iText in the SVN repository to avoid that
ALIGN_RIGHT or ALIGN_CENTER has any effect if you use horizontal separators.

As you can see in the code below, right aligned will be ignored because
it doesn't make sense to right or center align a line with a separator
count > 0.

Modified Paths:
--------------
     trunk/src/core/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfLine.java

Modified: trunk/src/core/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfLine.java
===================================================================
--- trunk/src/core/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfLine.java 2009-05-30 10:03:36
UTC (rev 3944)
+++ trunk/src/core/com/lowagie/text/pdf/PdfLine.java 2009-05-30 19:11:09
UTC (rev 3945)
@@ -254,16 +254,15 @@
                      return left;
              }
          }
-        else {
+        else if (this.getSeparatorCount() == 0) {
              switch (alignment) {
                  case Element.ALIGN_RIGHT:
                      return left + width;
                  case Element.ALIGN_CENTER:
                      return left + (width / 2f);
-                default:
-                    return left;
              }
          }
+        return left;
      }
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[Mathias Nilsson]

Ok

[Mathias Nilsson]

Pardon me for asking but you say that I shouldn't wrap my table in a columntext.
How can I absolute position the table?

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Mathias Nilsson wrote:
> Pardon me for asking but you say that I shouldn't wrap my table in a
> columntext.
> How can I absolute position the table?

With writeSelectedRows (see chapter 6 of "iText in Action").
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