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*
* This code is part of the 'iText Tutorial'.
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*
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package com.lowagie.examples.objects.chunk;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.lowagie.text.Chunk;
import com.lowagie.text.LwgDocument;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.LwgPageSize;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.HyphenationAuto;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
/**
* Make iText hyphenate your text.
*
* @author blowagie
*/
public class Hyphenation {
/**
* Using auto-hyphenation.
*
* @param args
* no arguments needed here
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hyphenation");
// step 1: creation of a document-object
LwgDocument document = new LwgDocument(LwgPageSize.A6);
try {
// step 2:
// we create a writer that listens to the document
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(
"Hyphenation.pdf"));
// step 3: we open the document
document.open();
// step 4:
String text = "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, "
+ "it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, "
+ "it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, "
+ "it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, "
+ "it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, "
+ "we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, "
+ "we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct "
+ "the other way\u2014in short, the period was so far like the present "
+ "period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its "
+ "being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree "
+ "of comparison only.";
Chunk ck = new Chunk(text);
HyphenationAuto auto = new HyphenationAuto("en", "GB", 2, 2);
ck.setHyphenation(auto);
Paragraph p = new Paragraph(ck);
p.setAlignment(Paragraph.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED);
document.add(p);
document.newPage();
ck = new Chunk(text);
auto = new HyphenationAuto("en", "US", 2, 2);
ck.setHyphenation(auto);
p = new Paragraph(ck);
p.setAlignment(Paragraph.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED);
document.add(p);
} catch (DocumentException de) {
System.err.println(de.getMessage());
} catch (IOException ioe) {
System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
}
// step 5: we close the document
document.close();
}
}