[seam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Resolved: (JBSEAM-4493) add right to left character support

[Norman Richards (JIRA)]

     [ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-4493?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Norman Richards resolved JBSEAM-4493.
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    Resolution: Done


It appears that itext only supports through the use of the MultiColumnText class.  I've added this through p:textcolumn.   The drawback here is that that textcolumn requires a left and right boundaries for the text column, as shown below.  p:textcolumn will default these to reasonable values for a letter sized page, but in general they should be set explicitly.

<p:textcolumn left="400" right="600" direction="rtl">
    <p:font name="/Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf" encoding="Identity-H" embedded="true">Arabic: {phrases.arabic}</p:font>
</p:textcolumn>

There do appear to be many limitations on where a text column can be used, and we'll have to work with the itext guys to understand/overcome any issues.  However, this fix does get us the most basic rtl support.



> add right to left character support
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>
>                 Key: JBSEAM-4493
>                 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBSEAM-4493
>             Project: Seam
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>            Reporter: Norman Richards
>            Assignee: Norman Richards
>             Fix For: 2.2.1.CR1
>
>
> Add support for itext multicolumntext, which allows right to left layout.

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