ColumnText.ShowTextAligned() cuts off text after linebreak

Question

I have the following code to print a text onto a PDF document using iTextSharp:

canvas = stamper.GetOverContent(i)
watermarkFont = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.C         


        

Answer 1

ColumnText.ShowTextAligned has been implemented as a short cut for the use case of adding a single line at a given position with given alignment. Confer the source code documentation:

/** Shows a line of text. Only the first line is written.
 * @param canvas where the text is to be written to
 * @param alignment the alignment
 * @param phrase the Phrase with the text
 * @param x the x reference position
 * @param y the y reference position
 * @param rotation the rotation to be applied in degrees counterclockwise
 */    
public static void ShowTextAligned(PdfContentByte canvas, int alignment, Phrase phrase, float x, float y, float rotation)

For more generic use cases please instantiate a ColumnText, set the content to draw and the outlines to draw in, and call Go().