Hello

I am using iText for RTF output on a larger project here, but I encountered
a few problems with lists and tables.
I am using iText 1.3.1
I made a few changes to the code that solved my problems so I decided to
share them.

The lists items were split in several items, so I had a look at the source,
in the write method of RtfListItem there is

for(int i = 0; i < chunks.size(); i++) {
  RtfChunk rtfChunk = (RtfChunk) chunks.get(i);
  rtfChunk.setSoftLineBreaks(true);
  result.write(rtfChunk.write());
  result.write(RtfParagraph.PARAGRAPH);
}

writing a new paragraph after each chunk is strange, moving that line after
the for loop solved my problem.
At the same place, the chunks.get(i) is casted into RtfChunk, but I want to
put Anchor objects within my lists items (which is accepted by the generic
object ListItem and works fine in PDF). So it seems better to cast as
RtfBasicElement:

for(int i = 0; i < chunks.size(); i++) {
  RtfBasicElement element = (RtfBasicElement) chunks.get(i);
  if(element instanceof RtfChunk){
    ((RtfChunk)element).setSoftLineBreaks(true);
  }
  result.write(element.write());
}
result.write(RtfParagraph.PARAGRAPH);

For tables, I had each lines duplicated (opening the resulting RTf with
oowriter), in RtfRow.write() there is

result.write(writeRowDefinitions());
for(int i = 0; i < this.cells.size(); i++) {
 RtfCell rtfCell = (RtfCell) this.cells.get(i);
 result.write(rtfCell.write());
}
result.write(DELIMITER);
result.write(writeRowDefinitions());
result.write(ROW_END);
result.write("\n".getBytes());

the definitions are written before AND after the line is written, removing
the two lines
result.write(DELIMITER);
result.write(writeRowDefinitions());
solved my problem.

I hope this help.

--
Renaud MICHEL



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