Spacing between words and characters
This example was written in the context of the question Click How to change the spacing between words and characters?
spacecharratioexample
JAVA
JAVA
/*
* Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to:
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30869268/java-itext-alignment
*/
package sandbox.objects;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Element;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import sandbox.WrapToTest;
/**
* @author Bruno Lowagie (iText Software)
*/
@WrapToTest
public class SpaceCharRatioExample {
public static final String DEST = "results/objects/space_char_ratio.pdf";
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
File file = new File(DEST);
file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
new SpaceCharRatioExample().createPdf(DEST);
}
public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
// step 1
Document document = new Document();
// step 2
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
// step 3
document.open();
// step 4
writer.setSpaceCharRatio(PdfWriter.NO_SPACE_CHAR_RATIO);
Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph();
paragraph.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED);
paragraph.setIndentationLeft(20);
paragraph.setIndentationRight(20);
paragraph.add("HelloWorld HelloWorld HelloWorld HelloWorld HelloWorld"+
"HelloWorld HelloWorldHelloWorldHelloWorldHelloWorld"+
"HelloWorld HelloWorld HelloWorld HelloWorldHelloWorldHelloWorld");
document.add(paragraph);
// step 5
document.close();
}
}