How can I truncate text within a bounding box?

Question

I am writing content to a PdfContentByte object directly using PdfContentByte.showTextAligned, I\'d like to know how I can stop the text overflowing a

Answer 1

Use this:

int status = ColumnText.START_COLUMN;
ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb);
ct.setSimpleColumn(rectangle);
status = ct.go();

Make sure that you define rectangle in a way so that only one line fits, use ColumnText.hasMoreText(status) to find out if you need to add an ellipsis character.