From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-01-25T08:09:55+09:00
Subject: Re: If you use PDF::Writer, read this post!

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:45 PM, John-Mason P. Shackelford
<jpshack@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> The last time I looked at Prawn (quiet a while ago) I don't remember
> seeing the equivalent of add_text_wrap which became the basis for a
> layout API I wrote which allowed one to define a series of text boxes
> specifying x,y,width, height, and rotation angle and border and then
> flow text into the first box and have it cascade through the rest. I'd
> like to contribute something like this to Prawn, but it would be nice
> if the fundamentals were there to support it. Did I miss the obvious
> or does Prawn now support a function that allows one to flow text into
> a box of specified width with the text which doesn't fit returned?

I describe how to do this here:

http://prawn.lighthouseapp.com/projects/9398/tickets/113-single-line-of-text

But maybe instead, Prawn::Document#text_box should return the
remaining parts of the string that were not rendered?
Aside from returning the remainder and handling rotation,
Prawn#text_box sounds exactly like what you've described here.

http://is.gd/h6x9

What do you think?

-greg

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