PDFlib 8 Windows COM/.NET Tutorial

Our paper planes are the ideal way of
passing the time. We offer revolutionary
brand new developments of the
traditional common paper planes. If
your lesson, conference, or lecture turn
out to be deadly boring, you can have
a wonderful time with our planes. All
our models are folded from one paper
sheet. They are exclusively folded
without using any adhesive. Several
models are equipped with a folded
landing gear enabling a safe landing
on the intended location provided that
you have aimed well. Other models are
able to fly loops or cover long distances.
Let them start from a vista point
in the mountains and see where they
touch the ground.
Fig. 8.21
Justified text with soft hyphen characters,
using default settings and a wide fitbox
Our paper planes are the ideal way of
passing the time. We offer revolutionary
brand new developments of the
traditional common paper planes. If
your lesson, conference, or lecture turn
out to be deadly boring, you can have
a wonderful time with our planes. All
our models are folded from one paper
sheet. They are exclusively folded
without using any adhesive. Several
models are equipped with a folded
landing gear enabling a safe landing
on the intended location provided that
you have aimed well. Other models are
able to fly loops or cover long
distances. Let them start from a vista
point in the mountains and see where
they touch the ground.
Fig. 8.22
Justified text without soft hyphens, using
default settings and a wide fitbox.
8.2.7 Hyphenation
PDFlib does not automatically hyphenate text, but can break words at hyphenation opportunities
which are explicitly marked in the text by soft hyphen characters. The soft
hyphen character is at position U+00AD in Unicode, but several methods are available
for specifying the soft hyphen in non-Unicode environments:
> In all cp1250 – cp1258 (including winansi) and iso8859-1 – iso8859-16 encodings the soft
hyphen is at decimal 173, octal 255, or hexadecimal 0xAD.
> A character entity reference can be used if an encoding does not contain the soft hyphen
character (e.g. macroman): ­
U+002D will be used as hyphenation character. In addition to breaking opportunities
designated by soft hyphens, words can be forcefully hyphenated in extreme cases when
other methods of adjustment, such as changing the word spacing or shrinking text, are
not possible.
Justified text with or without hyphen characters. In the following example we will
print the following text with justified alignment. The text contains soft hyphen characters
(visualized here as dashes):
Our paper planes are the ideal way of pas sing the time. We offer revolu tionary
brand new dev elop ments of the tradi tional common paper planes. If your lesson,
confe rence, or lecture turn out to be deadly boring, you can have a wonder ful time
with our planes. All our models are folded from one paper sheet. They are exclu sively
folded without using any adhe sive. Several models are equip ped with a folded
landing gear enab ling a safe landing on the intended loca tion provided that you
have aimed well. Other models are able to fly loops or cover long dist ances. Let them
start from a vista point in the mount ains and see where they touch the ground.
Figure 8.21 shows the generated text output with default settings for justified text. It
looks perfect since the conditions are optimal: the fitbox is wide enough, and there are
explicit break opportunities specified by the soft hyphen characters. As you can see in
Figure 8.22, the output looks okay even without explicit soft hyphens. The option list in
both cases looks as follows:
fontname=Helvetica fontsize=9 encoding=winansi alignment=justify
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