Positioning of high level objects after adding direct content

[Wolfgang Werner <wwerner (at) picturesafe.de>]

Hello all,

we are creating pdf files with iText. Several times we found places,  
where we would like to
mix high level objects (like chunk / paragraph) and items placed via  
direct content.

Example: We do create a page with a header made from  some sentences,  
then placing a
scaled version of an already existent pdf file, then adding a footer.

However, the footer - formed by a high level paragraph object - will  
be placed directly
under the header, covering the inserted pdf file.

The insertion point or the pdf is resolved by a PdfPageEventHelper  
which tracks the
the current y-position:

public void onStartPage( PdfWriter writer, Document document ) {
     currentYPosition = document.top();
}

public void onParagraphEnd( PdfWriter writer, Document document,  
float paragraphPosition ) {
     currentYPosition = paragraphPosition;
}

We now need a way to force the internal iText layout system to skip  
some y-Space and continue
below our items.

Is there any way to to this, eg.

	document.setYPosition()

Any comments are highly appreciated!

Regards, Wolfgang


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