Overflow and character space

[Bruno Lowagie <bruno (at) lowagie.com>]

Roel wrote:

> Hello
>
> Three questions, which i have to simulate a line printer:
> - how can I get the height of a printed line? (space above+letter+space
> under it, all belonging to the character)
>  
You define it yourself: it's the leading.
You can ask iText to give you the height of a String in a certain font
where the string 'oooooo' will return a lower value that the String
'FgFgFg', but you don't want every line to have a different height
depending on the characters it contains, do you???

> - how can i see at what point the next line is printed (so I can detect an
> overflow)
>  
Take my advice and read:
http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/objects/columns/
br,
Bruno



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