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Orestone

Post subject: Automatic expanding TextFrame

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:24 am

Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:24 pm
Posts: 13
Location: Brisbane, Australia

Is it possible to make a TextFrame increase its Height to contain its content?

for example the following code snippet creates a TextFrame with a border but the borders only 'contain' lines 1 to 6. Lines 7 to 9 fall outside the borders.

Code:

        private void AddLeftBox(Section section)
        {
            var frame = section.AddTextFrame();
            frame.Width = new Unit(80.0, UnitType.Millimeter);
            frame.LineFormat.Width = Unit.FromPoint(0.5);
            for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++)
                frame.AddParagraph("Line " + i);
        }

Failing an automatic way of doing this is there a way to measure the contents of the TextFrame after they have been added and then retrospectively set the TextFrame.Height property[/code]

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Thomas Hoevel

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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:52 am

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Joined: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:16 am
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Location: Cologne, Germany

Workaround: add a table to the textframe and set the border of the table.

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Orestone

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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:46 pm

Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:24 pm
Posts: 13
Location: Brisbane, Australia

Thanks Thomas.

I was hoping not to clutter the structure of the document like that but I shall take your suggestion on board.

Is this unimplemented functionality/feature in MigraDoc or is there a reason why the TextFrame behaves that way?

Cheers
Simon

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Orestone

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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:40 am

Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:24 pm
Posts: 13
Location: Brisbane, Australia

Just to add closure for others' benefit - this is an acceptable workaround for my situation

Code:

private void AddLeftBox(Section section)
{
    var frame = section.AddTextFrame();

    Table table = frame.AddTable();
    table.Borders.Width = 0.5;
    table.LeftPadding = 0;

    var column = table.AddColumn();
    column.Width = Unit.FromMillimeter(80);

    Row row = table.AddRow();

    for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++)
        row[0].AddParagraph("Line " + i);
}

The line

Code:

table.LeftPadding = 0;

ensures that the table is aligned with other paragraph borders in my document. You may not need this in other applications (as appropriate).

Thanks again

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