Does XmlWorker support absolute positioning?

Georg Nozicka <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Dec 2014 11:06:08 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hello,

I can not really figure out if XmlWorker does support absolute positioning. 

Here is a sample which demonstrates absolute positioning: http://sourceforge.net/p/xmlworker/code-0/379/tree//trunk/src/test/resources/com/itextpdf/tool/xml/examples/css/position/text/position_text01/position_text01.html#l6 <http://sourceforge.net/p/xmlworker/code-0/379/tree//trunk/src/test/resources/com/itextpdf/tool/xml/examples/css/position/text/position_text01/position_text01.html#l6>

When I try to run a similar sample this does not work. The code looks as follows:

public class TestAbsolutePositioning extends Setup {

	@Test
	public void setupDefaultProcessingYourself() throws IOException, DocumentException {
		Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4);
		PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, new FileOutputStream(new File("/tmp/xmlworker.pdf")));
		doc.open();
		HtmlPipelineContext htmlContext = new HtmlPipelineContext(null);
		htmlContext.setTagFactory(Tags.getHtmlTagProcessorFactory());
		CSSResolver cssResolver = XMLWorkerHelper.getInstance().getDefaultCssResolver(true);
		Pipeline<?> pipeline = new CssResolverPipeline(cssResolver, new HtmlPipeline(htmlContext, new PdfWriterPipeline(doc, writer)));
		XMLWorker worker = new XMLWorker(pipeline, true);
		XMLParser p = new XMLParser(worker);
		InputStream is = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("test1.html");
		p.parse(is);
		doc.close();
	}
}


public class Setup {

	static {
		LoggerFactory.getInstance().setLogger(new SysoLogger());
		FontFactory.registerDirectories();
	}
}

test1.html looks as follows:

<html>
<head>
<style>
h2 {
	text-decoration: underline;
	position: absolute;
	left: 50mm;
	top: 50mm;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
	<h2>This is a heading with an absolute position</h2>
	<p>This is the text after the header.</p>
</body>

</html>

The output looks as follows (see attachment):





I use the following libraries:

		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
			<artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId>
			<version>5.5.4</version>
			<scope>compile</scope>
		</dependency>
		
		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.itextpdf.tool</groupId>
			<artifactId>xmlworker</artifactId>
			<version>5.5.4</version>
			<scope>compile</scope>
		</dependency>


Regards,
Georg

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