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Topic: Formatting text in columns

Posted By: Hopeful
Subject: Formatting text in columns
Date Posted: 10 Aug 06 at 2:32AM

I want to format a receipt for printing. I can see from the docs that there are functions to draw wrapped text which can be left or right justified which is great. However, these functions all need a starting x and y position.

My question is, how do I determine the correct y position to use for each line of text? Also, it's possible that the left text column will wrap - the right text column must always have a y position that corresponds to the first line of the corresponding block of left text column.

Line 1 which $12.20

has wrapped

Line 2 $10.20

Line 3 $23.34

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Posted By: chicks
Date Posted: 10 Aug 06 at 11:35AM

There are a couple of helper functions in QuickPDF you can use to determine the height or # of wrapped lines, then you can do the math to get the next y position.

GetWrappedTextHeight()
GetWrappedTextLineCount()