PDFlib 8 Windows COM/.NET Tutorial

Fig. 8.27
Filling a rhombus
shape with text
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Our
paper
planes are
the ideal way
of passing the
time. We offer a lot
of revolutionary brandnew
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.
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Fig. 8.28
Filling overlapping shapes
Our paper planes are
the ideal way of passing
the time. We offer
revolutionary new developments
of the traditional
co- mmon paper
planes. If your lesson,
conf- erence, 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.
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Filling overlapping shapes. In the next example we will fill a shape comprising two
overlapping polygons, namely a hexagon with a rectangle inside. Using the addfitbox
option the fitbox itself will be excluded from being filled, and the polygons in the subsequent
list will be filled except in the overlapping area (see Figure 8.28):
wrap={ addfitbox polygons=
{ {20% 10% 80% 10% 100% 50% 80% 90% 20% 90% 0% 50% 20% 10%}
{35% 35% 65% 35% 65% 65% 35% 65% 35% 35%} } }
Without the addfitbox option you will get the opposite effect: the previously filled area
will remain empty, and the previously empty areas will be filled with text.
Cookbook A full code sample can be found in the Cookbook topic text_output/fill_polygons_with_text.
226 Chapter 8: Text and Table Formatting (Edition for COM, .NET, and REALbasic)