itext multiline text in bounding box

Question

Hi. Does anyone know, how to, in iText, add multiline text in bounding box (with coordinates specified).

I tried

 cb.showTextAligned(PdfContentByte.ALIGN_LEFT, text, bounds.getLeft(), TOTAL_HEIGHT-bounds.getTop(), 0);

But it does not support newlines. I also tried

  PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
  cb.moveText(300,400);
  document.add(new Paragraph("TEST paragraph\nNewline"));

This supports newlines but does not react to moveText, so I don't know how to put it at given position or better: bounding box.

I suspect chunks or PdfTemplate or maybe table might help, but i don't (yet) know how to put it together. TIA for help.

Answer 1

Try this:

ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb);
Phrase myText = new Phrase("TEST paragraph\nNewline");
ct.SetSimpleColumn(myText, 34, 750, 580, 317, 15, Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
ct.Go();

parameters of SetSimpleColumn are:

1. the phrase
2. leftmargin coordinate
3. bottommargin coordinate
4. box width
5. box height
6. line height
7. alignment.