Rotate paragraphs or cells some arbitrary number of degrees — Itext

Question

I have a web site where the users upload photos and create photobooks. Also, they can add text at absolute positions, rotations, and alignments. The text can have new lines.

Answer 1

• Create a PdfTemplate object; just a rectangle.
• Draw your ColumnText on this PdfTemplate; don't worry about the rotation, just fill the rectangle with whatever content you want to add to the column.
• Wrap the PdfTemplate inside an Image object; this is just for convenience, to avoid the math. This doesn't mean your text will be rasterized.
• Now apply a rotation and an absolute position to the Image and add it to your document.

Your problem is now solved ;-)

PS: I'm the author of the iText in Action books.