[iText-questions] newline handling inside chunk/phrase

[pier luigi zanotti]

I'm a bit confused about newline handling in chunks text. The following
code:

Paragraph para = new Paragraph();
para.add(new Chunk(" A"));
para.add(new Chunk("\n B"));
para.add(new Chunk("\n C"));
document.add(para);

add a paragraph of 3 lines, where the first line in the resulting pdf
document is slightly shifted to the right, while I was expecting that
the lines began at the same exact horizontal position. Note that every
letter "A", "B", "C" is preceded by two space char.
If I use a newline also in the first Chunk, the three lines are
perfectly horizontally aligned in the output document:

Paragraph para = new Paragraph();
para.add(new Chunk("\n A"));
para.add(new Chunk("\n B"));
para.add(new Chunk("\n C"));
document.add(para);


So the question is: why the presence of a newline character on a chunk
text affect the horizontal position of the text itself?

The version of iText I'm using is 5.2.1 .

[Raf Hens]

Post by pier luigi zanotti
So the question is: why the presence of a newline character on a chunk
text affect the horizontal position of the text itself?
The version of iText I'm using is 5.2.1 .

This is indeed an issue in iText, also present in 5.3.0. When handling
the word wrapping, a space gets eaten where it shouldn't.
It will be fixed in the next release.

As a workaround, you can put your newlines in a separate chunk (or use
Chunk.NEWLINE):

para.add(new Chunk(" A"));
para.add(Chunk.NEWLINE);
para.add(new Chunk(" B"));
para.add("\n");
para.add(new Chunk(" C"));


Best regards,
Raf

[searchengine27]

Does anyone know what version this was fixed in?



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