DrawText DrawHTMLText differences

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   Hi there,
    qp.DrawText(bbox.Left, pageBbox.Height - bbox.Top, word.Text);
    qp.DrawHTMLText(bbox.Left, pageBbox.Height - bbox.Top, bbox.Width, word.Text);

I'm attempting to calculate positions to place some text but these two lines of codes, which seem like they should perform identically produce different results.

DrawHTLMText places the text where I would expect, whereas DrawText places the text slightly above. (10 pixels or so)

Is the position calculated differently with these two functions?

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McHaigh Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 18 Jun 13 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote McHaigh Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: DrawText DrawHTMLText differences Posted: 19 Jun 13 at 5:30PM
	Hi there, qp.DrawText(bbox.Left, pageBbox.Height - bbox.Top, word.Text); qp.DrawHTMLText(bbox.Left, pageBbox.Height - bbox.Top, bbox.Width, word.Text); I'm attempting to calculate positions to place some text but these two lines of codes, which seem like they should perform identically produce different results. DrawHTLMText places the text where I would expect, whereas DrawText places the text slightly above. (10 pixels or so) Is the position calculated differently with these two functions?

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Jun 13 at 9:30PM
	Hi! If the two functions offers the same results ... why these two functions ;-) DrawHTMLText offers additionally support for html-tags and for this purpose basically there are few main settings which results in the differences. It's your choice which of the two functions to use ;-) In the online reference and in the developer guide you can read and see samples with DrawText and DrawHTMLText combined... Cheers, Ingo

tfrost Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 10 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 437	Post Options Post Reply Quote tfrost Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Jun 13 at 4:47PM
	The Drawtext vertical reference position is the text baseline, DrawHTMLText the top of the area to draw into. The documentation makes this clear, and the latter area clearly cannot be set to match the text baseline, as in Drawtext, because this cannot be known until after the HTML has been completely processed.