Writing text in signature appearance which doesn't get cut

["Paulo Soares" <psoares (at) consiste.pt>]

PdfSignatureAppearance.fitText(). You can also use ColumnText to break
lines, etc. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: itext-questions-admin (at) lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:itext-questions-admin (at) lists.sourceforge.net] On 
> Behalf Of Wahaj Khan
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:15 AM
> To: itext-questions (at) lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [iText-questions] Writing text in signature 
> appearance which doesn't get cut
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I am trying to write some text in a signature appearance 
> using PDFTemplate.
> 
>           n2.beginText();
>           BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont("Helvetica", 
> BaseFont.WINANSI,
> false);
>           n2.setColorStroke(java.awt.Color.BLUE);
>           n2.setFontAndSize(bf, FONT_SIZE);
>           n2.setTextMatrix(10, 100);
> 
>           n2.showText("This is a very very long text so 
> please scale this
> text");
>           n2.endText();
> 
> In case the signature appearance is small, the text above 
> gets cut. I need
> to set a font based on the size of the signature appearance 
> so that the full
> text is shown. One way is to find the right balance by hit 
> and trial i.e.if
> the width of the n2 is so and so then font size should be so 
> and so if the
> text size is in a particular range. This is cumbersome, I was 
> wondering
> whether there is some function which can tell me how much 
> area a text would
> take i.e. the above text if using a particular font would 
> take 100 pixels. I
> can then compare with the n2's width and if the text get cut 
> then reduce the
> font size and again check. Is there any function or way ?
> 
> Thanks for reading..
> 
> Regards,
> Wahaj
> 


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