com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser

Class ParsedTextImpl

java.lang.Object

com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.ParsedTextImpl

All Implemented Interfaces:

TextAssemblyBuffer

Direct Known Subclasses:

ParsedText, Word

public abstract class ParsedTextImpl
extends Object
implements TextAssemblyBuffer

Author:

dgd

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract boolean	breakBefore()
float	getAscent()
Vector	getBaseline() Return the vector representing the baseline of this text chunk, even if the length of the text is zero.
float	getDescent()
Vector	getEndPoint()
float	getSingleSpaceWidth()
Vector	getStartPoint()
String	getText()
float	getWidth()
abstract boolean	shouldNotSplit()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface com.lowagie.text.pdf.parser.TextAssemblyBuffer

accumulate, assemble, getFinalText

Method Detail

getText

public String getText()

Specified by:

getText in interface TextAssemblyBuffer

Returns:

See Also:

ParsedText.getText()

getSingleSpaceWidth

public float getSingleSpaceWidth()

Returns:

The width, in user space units, of a single space character in the current font

getAscent

public float getAscent()

getDescent

public float getDescent()

getWidth

public float getWidth()

getStartPoint

public Vector getStartPoint()

Returns:

a vector in User space representing the start point of the text

getEndPoint

public Vector getEndPoint()

Returns:

a vector in User space representing the end point of the text (i.e. the starting point of the text plus the width of the text, transformed by the applicable transformation matrices)

getBaseline

public Vector getBaseline()

Return the vector representing the baseline of this text chunk, even if the length of the text is zero.

Returns:

baseline

See Also:

_baseline

shouldNotSplit

public abstract boolean shouldNotSplit()

Returns:

true if this was extracted from a string containing spaces, in which case, we assume further splitting is not needed.

breakBefore

public abstract boolean breakBefore()

Returns:

true if this was a space or other item that should force a space before it.