New to Java

Hi All,

I am drawing text to pdf page using the AttributedString.

when adding the Surperscript and subscript Attributes to AttributedString then
drawing aAttributedCharacterIterator from AttributedString is not working properly , but i can achieve it by TextLayout object

can any one pls let me know why AttributedString dosnt work properly.

here is the sample code

import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.font.LineBreakMeasurer;
import java.awt.font.TextAttribute;
import java.awt.font.TextLayout;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.AttributedString;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfTemplate;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class GenPdfPage
{

public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException,
IOException
{
createPdfFile("d:\\temp.pdf");
}

private static void createPdfFile(String f) throws DocumentException,
IOException
{
float width = 5 * 72;
float height = 5 * 72;
PdfWriter writer = null;
Document doc = new Document(new Rectangle(width, height));
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(f);
writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, fos);

doc.open();
PdfContentByte contentByte = writer.getDirectContent();
PdfTemplate tem = contentByte.createTemplate(width, height);

Graphics2D g2d = tem.createGraphics(width, height);

drawAttributedString(g2d);

contentByte.addTemplate(tem, 0, 0);

g2d.dispose();
doc.close();
writer.close();
fos.close();

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /c start " + f);

}

private static void drawAttributedString(Graphics2D g2d)
{
String str = "18th May 1984";
AttributedString as = new AttributedString(str);

as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.SUPERSCRIPT,
TextAttribute.SUPERSCRIPT_SUPER, 2, 4);

LineBreakMeasurer lbm = new LineBreakMeasurer(as.getIterator(), g2d
.getFontRenderContext());

TextLayout tl = lbm.nextLayout(500);

tl.draw(g2d, 10, 20);

g2d.drawString(as.getIterator(), 20, 40);
}

}

Thanks
Rajesh Voruganti