Spacing.java

/* ******************************************************************************
 *
 *       Copyright 2008-2010 Hans Dijkema
 *
 *   JRichTextEditor is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 
 *   published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of 
 *   the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *   JRichTextEditor is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 *   along with JRichTextEditor.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 *   
 * ******************************************************************************/

package nl.dykema.jxmlnote.spikes;

/*
 * This class is part of the book "iText in Action - 2nd Edition"
 * written by Bruno Lowagie (ISBN: 9781935182610)
 * For more info, go to: http://itextpdf.com/examples/
 * This example only works with the AGPL version of iText.
 */

 
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Phrase;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;


public class Spacing {

    /** The resulting PDF file. */
    public static final String RESULT = "/tmp/spacing.pdf";

    /**
     * Main method.
     * @param    args    no arguments needed
     * @throws DocumentException 
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void main(String[] args)
        throws DocumentException, IOException {
        // step 1
        Document document = new Document();
        // step 2
        PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(RESULT));
        // step 3
        document.open();
        // step 4
        PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(2);
        table.setWidthPercentage(100);
        Phrase p = new Phrase(
            "Dr. iText or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying " +
            "and Love the Portable Document Format.");
        PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(p);
        table.addCell("default leading / spacing");
        table.addCell(cell);
        table.addCell("absolute leading: 20");
        cell.setLeading(20f, 0f);
        table.addCell(cell);
        table.addCell("absolute leading: 3; relative leading: 1.2");
        cell.setLeading(3f, 1.2f);
        table.addCell(cell);
        table.addCell("absolute leading: 0; relative leading: 1.2");
        cell.setLeading(0f, 1.2f);
        table.addCell(cell);
        table.addCell("no leading at all");
        cell.setLeading(0f, 0f);
        table.addCell(cell);
        cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(
            "Dr. iText or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PDF"));
        table.addCell("padding 10");
        cell.setPadding(10);
        table.addCell(cell);
        table.addCell("padding 0");
        cell.setPadding(0);
        table.addCell(cell);
        table.addCell("different padding for left, right, top and bottom");
        cell.setPaddingLeft(20);
        cell.setPaddingRight(50);
        cell.setPaddingTop(0);
        cell.setPaddingBottom(5);
        table.addCell(cell);
        p = new Phrase("iText in Action Second Edition");
        table.getDefaultCell().setPadding(2);
        table.getDefaultCell().setUseAscender(false);
        table.getDefaultCell().setUseDescender(false);
        table.addCell("padding 2; no ascender, no descender");
        table.addCell(p);
        table.getDefaultCell().setUseAscender(true);
        table.getDefaultCell().setUseDescender(false);
        table.addCell("padding 2; ascender, no descender");
        table.addCell(p);
        table.getDefaultCell().setUseAscender(false);
        table.getDefaultCell().setUseDescender(true);
        table.addCell("padding 2; descender, no ascender");
        table.addCell(p);
        table.getDefaultCell().setUseAscender(true);
        table.getDefaultCell().setUseDescender(true);
        table.addCell("padding 2; ascender and descender");
        cell.setPadding(2);
        cell.setUseAscender(true);
        cell.setUseDescender(true);
        table.addCell(p);
        document.add(table);
        // step 5
        document.close();
    }
}