How to set a line inside a rectangle?

Question

I am trying to add some rows, images and tables to my pdf file (there should be several pages there), but when I try to use ColumnText(I use this because I want to place the rows in absolute positions), I run into a problem. When the column height is insufficient to add row content, the content is incomplete. How can I avoid losing content?

Here is the related code:

try {
    PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("output.pdf"));
    document.open();
    PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
    String imageUrl = "/Users/nofear/workspace/deneme23/pics/a4-ust.png";
    String imageUrlAlt = "pics/a4-alt.png";
    Image imageust = null;
    Image imageAlt = null;
    try {
        imageust = Image.getInstance(imageUrl);
        imageAlt = Image.getInstance(imageUrlAlt);
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    System.out.println("HEIGHT"
        + (document.getPageSize().getHeight() - imageust.getHeight()));
    imageust.setAbsolutePosition(0f,
        document.getPageSize().getHeight() - imageust.getHeight()-10);
    imageAlt.setAbsolutePosition( 0f, 10f);
    document.add(imageust);
    document.add(imageAlt);
    // now draw a line below the headline
    cb.setLineWidth(1f); 
    cb.moveTo(0, 200);
    cb.lineTo(200, 200);
    cb.stroke();
    // first define a standard font for our text
    Font helvetica8BoldBlue = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA,16);
    // create a column object
    ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb);
    // define the text to print in the column
    Phrase myText = new Phrase("Very Very Long String!!!" , helvetica8BoldBlue);
    ct.setSimpleColumn(myText, 60, 750,
        /* width*/document.getPageSize().getWidth() - 40, 100,
        20, Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
    ct.go();
} catch (Exception e) {
} finally {
    document.close();
}

Answer 1

There are three options:

• Or you provide a larger rectangle so that the content fits inside,
• or you reduce the content (e.g. smaller font, less text), ...
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int status = ct.go(true);
boolean fits = !ColumnText.hasMoreText(status);

fits, . , , : http://itextpdf.com/examples/iia.php?id=163

, , document.newPage();

ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb);
ct.setSimpleColumn(rect);
int status = ct.go();
while (ColumnText.hasMoreText(status)) {
    document.newPage();
    ct.setSimpleColumn(rect);
    status = ct.go();
}

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