Question on setting font size in whole document

[LgM Michael]

I have a very simple document that currently has a single table into  
which I add cells.

document.open();
PdfTable table = new PdfTable(5);
table.addCell(... and so on

I would like to change the font size to be smaller throughout the  
document, as well as add an introductory paragraph, and size the cells  
differently (the first 4 cells can be smaller with the last cell  
needing room for the most text).

Can anyone point me to how to approach this?

Thank you
Mike

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[Mark Storer-2]

http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/
There's also the "iText in Action" book.

More specifically, there isn't some global "default font size" attribute you can change.  You just have to specify a given size when you set the font.

The basic "Chunks" example probably uses the same constructor you do to add text:
http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/examples/com/lowagie/examples/objects/Chunks.java

Chunk foo = new Chunk("My String.");
paragraph.add( foo );

There's another constructor:

Font myFont = new Font( Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 8 ); // name & point size
Cunk bar = new Chunk("My String, only different.", myFont );
paragraph.add( bar );
document.add( parargraph );
document.close();

Without a particular font defined, iText will use a default, which I believe is Times 12pt, but I could be wrong.

I stronly suspect that any method given to add text to a Document will have an override that allows you to define a font for that text.


--Mark Storer
  Senior Software Engineer
  Cardiff.com

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: LgM Michael [mailto:dev1@...]
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 2:31 PM
> To: itext-questions@...
> Subject: [iText-questions] Question on setting font size in whole
> document
>
>
> I have a very simple document that currently has a single table into  
> which I add cells.
>
> document.open();
> PdfTable table = new PdfTable(5);
> table.addCell(... and so on
>
> I would like to change the font size to be smaller throughout the  
> document, as well as add an introductory paragraph, and size
> the cells  
> differently (the first 4 cells can be smaller with the last cell  
> needing room for the most text).
>
> Can anyone point me to how to approach this?
>
> Thank you
> Mike
>
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