Re: Position Paragraph or how to get current position
Mike Driscoll <[email protected]>
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Hi Andy, On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, on the table: you can draw any flowable in canvas mode if you first > call > object.wrap(availWidth, availHeight), which will return the width > and height within that space that it actually wants to use. > Practically, width was never used and is always the width of the > frame, but height tells you where your table will end. > > > This height will be to the bottom of the table. We define the edges > as a zero-width line at the midpoint of the bottom border. However, > by default all table cells have 3 points of padding between the > content and edges (overrideable by you) on the inside; there is no > padding around the inside. So to put a paragraph straight after, > you'll want to set its baseline a bit lower. > > This is going from memory as I don't have a development environment to > hand. Hope it helps... I think I got the padding removed using the table's style options, specifically BOTTOMPADDING and TOPPADDING. But I'm still not sure how I can control the indent of the following flowables. I really want to move the Paragraph object that follows the table to the left about half an inch. - Mike