Re: Retrieve rendered text length

BaseFont.getWidthPoint()

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From: "Thorsten Schäfer" <Newsletter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <itext-questions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 18:31
Subject: [iText-questions] Retrieve rendered text length


> Hi there,
>
> First of all let me thank you for such a great library. I'm using it
> more and more... ;)
> One question I have is if it's possible to get the length of a text
> rendered by itext. I'm using code like this:
> content.beginText();
> content.setFontAndSize(fontBold, 24);
> content.showTextAligned(PdfContentByte.ALIGN_LEFT, "TEST", x, y, 0);
> content.endText();
>
> Now I'm searching for a method, which tells me how long the generated
> text is (it depends obviously on the font...), so that I can use a
> abbreviation if it's too long. Does such a method exist or are there any
> hints how to implement such a method?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thorsten
>
>
>
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