pdfbox wrap text

Question

I am using PDFBox with the following code:

doc = new PDDocument();
page = new PDPage();

doc.addPage(page);
PDFont font = PDType1Font.COURIER;

pdftitle = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page);
pdftitle.beginText();
pdftitle.setFont( font, 12 );
pdftitle.moveTextPositionByAmount( 40, 740 );
pdftitle.drawString("Here I insert a lot of text");
pdftitle.endText();
pdftitle.close();

Does anyone know how I can wrap the text so that it automatically goes to another line?

Answer 1

This worked for me. A combination of WordUtils and split

String[] wrT = null;
String s = null;
text = "Job Description: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Pellentesque hendrerit lectus nec ipsum gravida placerat. Fusce eu erat orci. Nunc eget augue neque. Fusce arcu risus, pulvinar eu blandit ac, congue non tellus. Sed eu neque vitae dui placerat ultricies vel vitae mi. Vivamus vulputate nullam.";
wrT = WordUtils.wrap(text, 100).split("\\r?\\n");

for (int i=0; i< wrT.length; i++) {
    contents.beginText();
    contents.setFont(PDType1Font.HELVETICA, 10);
    contents.newLineAtOffset(50,600-i*15);
    s = wrT[i];
    contents.showText(s);
    contents.endText(); 
}

Answer 2

I don't think it is possible to wrap text automatically. But you can wrap your text yourself. See How to Insert a Linefeed with PDFBox drawString and How can I create fixed-width paragraphs with PDFbox?.