PDFBox Layout: Add Line Break to StyledText

Question

I'm using pdfbox-layout and I want to add line breaks to a StyledText Element but can't manage to do it.

If a styled text contains a line break "\n", I get the following error message:

"StyledText must not contain line breaks, use TextFragment.LINEBREAK for that"

But I can't find an example in the documentation that shows how use TextFragment.LINEBREAK.

Does anybody have an example or a alternative solution for this?

SOLUTION:

I found a solution how to do it. You need to create a NewLine Textfragment and add it to the TextFlow every time you need a linebreak. Here is an example:

NewLine linebreak = new NewLine(fontSize);
TextFlow textflow = new TextFlow();
textflow.add("first line");
textflow.add(linebreak);
textflow.add("second line");
textflow.add(linebreak);
textflow.add("third line");
textflow.drawText(contentStream, posX, posY, Alignment.Left, drawListener);

It's PDFBox respectively an extension of it -> https://github.com/ralfstuckert/pdfbox-layout — Braunbaer, Aug 10 '18 at 11:36
I made clearer that you are looking for a solution in the context of that add-on to PDFBox. — mkl, Aug 10 '18 at 13:52

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 02 '23 at 03:14

I found a solution how to do it. You need to create a NewLine Textfragment and add it to the TextFlow every time you need a linebreak. Here is an example:

NewLine linebreak = new NewLine(fontSize);
TextFlow textflow = new TextFlow();
textflow.add("first line");
textflow.add(linebreak);
textflow.add("second line");
textflow.add(linebreak);
textflow.add("third line");
textflow.drawText(contentStream, posX, posY, Alignment.Left, drawListener);

PDFBox Layout: Add Line Break to StyledText

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