I have a web site where the users upload photos and create photobooks. Also, they can add text at absolute positions, rotations, and alignments. The text can have new lines.
thanks to both our friends (Bruno & BernalCarlos) my final code for users that use "RTL" in their projects is here :
// step 1
Document document = new Document();
document.setPageSize(PageSize.A4);
// step 2
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(destination_file));
CreateBorder event = new CreateBorder();
writer.setPageEvent(event);
// step 3
document.open();
// step 4
int imgWidth=400;
int imgHeight=50;
//Create the template that will contain the text
PdfContentByte canvas = writer.getDirectContent();
PdfTemplate textTemplate = canvas.createTemplate(imgWidth, imgHeight);
//The width and height of the text to be inserted
ColumnText columnText = new ColumnText(textTemplate);
columnText.setSimpleColumn(0, 0, imgWidth, imgHeight);
columnText.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL);
columnText.addElement(new Paragraph("محاسبه بار غیر متعادل", font_IranSemiBold));
columnText.go();
//Create de image wraper for the template
Image textImg = Image.getInstance(textTemplate);
//Asign the dimentions of the image, in this case, the text
textImg.setInterpolation(true);
textImg.scaleAbsolute(imgWidth, imgHeight);
textImg.setRotationDegrees(90); //Arbitrary number of degress
textImg.setAbsolutePosition(50, 200);
//Add the text to the pdf
document.add(textImg);
// step 5
document.close();