Using continued with center and right alignment is broken

[alextarrell]

Using continued will not remeasure the text position in order to account for new text being added.

doc.text('Normal Text ', {
    align: 'left',
    continued: true
}).text('Non-overlapping text');
doc.moveDown();
doc.text('Normal Text ', {
    align: 'center',
    continued: true
}).text('Overlapping text');
doc.moveDown();
doc.text('Normal Text ', {
    align: 'right',
    continued: true
}).text('Overlapping text');

Produces the following:

[devongovett]

Yeah, and unfortunately there isn't much we can do about that easily. We would need to not add the last line of a continued section to the document so we could remeasure in the next part. This would involve tracking all sorts of things for the text style and would be a pain. Definitely not impossible, just difficult.

The continued option was always a bit of a hack. Really there should be a 2 pass layout system that first figures out where the text is going to go, and then actually adds it to the document. I see no other way around it if we want good looking rich text. For now, continued is a temporary solution that works for most uses: left aligned text.

[ryanwersal]

I ran into this recently as well. @devongovett Mind if I take a stab at such a text layout system? Have you thought much about possible implementations? Or did you want to go a different direction entirely?

[toymachiner62]

I also need to be able to use align: right along with continued: true. My reason is that I need bold text followed by non-bold text all aligned right and this doesn't work:

const regular = 'Times-Roman'
const bold = 'Times-Bold'
doc.font(bold)
doc.text('Contact:', { align: 'right', continued: true })
doc.font(regular)
doc.text('privacy@example.com', { align: 'right' })

[viktordreval]

Any updates regarding this issue?
I think continued is great feature. And it would be great if it will support align option.
For now the only option to alight a continued text I see is to split the text into rows and align each row individually.

[ninbit]

Any updates? I also need this feature since I try to use pdfkit with a right-to-left language. For now, I somehow hacked a bit for RTL language but I stuck in the continued option.

[ninbit]

For right aligned texts, I think it is enough to obtain the x position or the width of the last line of the first text. Then we moveUp() and write to that position. Hence the second text will be continued without the continuedoption.

So, is there a way to get the x position or the width of the last line?
Or is it possible to obtain the last line of any text which is written to pdf? It should be obtained when wrapping lines, I think.

[c0mradeuc]

For right aligned texts, I think it is enough to obtain the x position or the width of the last line of the first text. Then we moveUp() and write to that position. Hence the second text will be continued without the continuedoption.

So, is there a way to get the x position or the width of the last line?
Or is it possible to obtain the last line of any text which is written to pdf? It should be obtained when wrapping lines, I think.

Maybe you can calculate the width of the text according to the fontsize

[dragon74]

I also also need to be able to use align: right along with continued: true. will it be supported?

[pastean]

@dragon74 I posted a workaround in #54 check it out, hope it helps

[fernando-s97]

Any updates on that?

[NikolaiMe]

Hey all,

I created a package to solve this issue. Maybe it helps some of you!

textbox-for-pdfkit

[tttaisgt]

Are any things new? 😅

[hiba236]

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