Missing New line characters in the iText PDF

[creddyms]

Hello I have an application to enter the text in the text box.  When I enter text as multiple lines in the text box, when the pdf is generated everything appears in one line.  

This is Line One.
This is Line Two.

I need to preserve the new line character when the iText generates the PDF.

When  PDF is generated It is showing as :

This is Line One.This is Line Two.

Can any one help to how I can achieve this.

Thanks in advance.

-Reddy

[Mathias Nilsson]

Just make sure \n is used.

[creddyms]

If i use \n in the text box.  It is printing as  \n instead of treating it as a new line.

First line \n Second Line.

Mathias Nilsson wrote:

Just make sure \n is used.

[Mathias Nilsson]

What sort of text box do you use? Html textarea, Swing JtextArea or .net?

Can you post some code on how you create the pdf and what the input are?

[creddyms]

I am using Java/ Spring/jsp. Please see the code below.


I checked in the database, copied the content and pasted it on a text editor,  I see the new line char  are preserved in the database. The data I pasted now shows in multiple lines.  So.. I don't think it is a problem with the text box.


But when I use the same content and pass it on to the PDF generator.  I see the new line characters missing.  I mean it prints all lines back to back, instead of printing the individual lines as a sparate line.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!


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Here is my  jsp code, using Spring.

     <tr>
      <td colspan="2" align="left">Enter Guest Comments:</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
      <td colspan="3" align="left"><form:textarea id="comments" path="recognition.comments" rows="12" cols="95"/></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
      <td colspan="3">
        <input class="button" id="previewButton" style="cursor:pointer;" type="button"  value="Preview/Print" onClick="handlePreviewSelected()"/> 
        <input class="button" id="saveButton" type="submit"  value="Submit"/>
         </td>
     </tr>
    </table>
    </form:form>
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        Font pCommentsFont = FontFactory.getFont(aEraCmReader.getCommFontType(lAsset), aEraCmReader.getCommentsFontSize(lAsset), Font.BOLD, aEraCmReader.getCommFontColor(lAsset));
        p = new Paragraph("");
        p.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
        p.add(new Chunk(pRecognition.getComments(), pCommentsFont));
        lDocument.add(p);

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Mathias Nilsson wrote:

What sort of text box do you use? Html textarea, Swing JtextArea or .net?

Can you post some code on how you create the pdf and what the input are?