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Hello,

I had look at the invoice sample and tried to set a tabstop in my own migradoc document. Unfortunately I failed miserably.

What I tried to achieve:
Create a right aligned tab stop (that means any text written at this tab stop will expand left rather than right, doesn't it?) at a certain position.
In my case I tried to set the tab stop to the position of the right margin so that any text would neatly align to it.

// new style "MyStyle"
style = _document.Styles.AddStyle("MyStyle", "Normal");
style.ParagraphFormat.SpaceBefore = "3mm";
style.ParagraphFormat.SpaceAfter = "3mm";
style.ParagraphFormat.TabStops.Clear();
style.ParagraphFormat.TabStops.AddTabStop("19,8cm", TabAlignment.Right); // A
//style.ParagraphFormat.TabStops.AddTabStop(new Unit(19.8d, UnitType.Centimeter), TabAlignment.Right); // B

I think A and B should show pretty much the same result.. however they don't.
Also I wasn't able to achieve the "expand text to the left" thing.

I'd put the tabstop at 0.1 cm before the right margin (at least for a test).

If you don't write which results you got, I cannot comment on that.
Not sure whether "19.8cm" or "19,8cm" is correct here.

I'd use variant C:

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team

Hi Thomas,

I am having a similar problem understanding tabstops (unfortunately migradoc and pdfsharp have very poor documentation )

I have read few of your posts regrading tabstops.

So far I have gathered :

To have a text near to the left margin and another text near to the right margin, according to you , I should add left_text , add a tabstop (right aligned , with minimum width) and add right_text , Basically code should be something like :

// Adding footer to the document
var style = doc.Styles[StyleNames.Footer];
style.ParagraphFormat.TabStops.ClearAll();
// tabstop added : ("1 cm" , TabAlignment.Right)
style.ParagraphFormat.TabStops.AddTabStop(Unit.FromCentimeter(1), TabAlignment.Right , TabLeader.MiddleDot);
Paragraph footer_para = new Paragraph();
footer_para.AddText("left.");
footer_para.AddTab();
footer_para.AddText("right.");
footer_para.Format.Borders.Visible = true;
sec.Footers.Primary.Add(footer_para);

After doing this I get the output (I am using version 1.32) like :
|left.right.|

"|" indicates page margin.

NO TABSTOP ADDED.

I also have attached my code , pdf output , and mdddl file (all are in the zip file)

1. Please help me understand this output.
2. Please give me an explanation of how tabstops work (what is the meaning of TabAlignment, what happens if I add multiple tabstops with different alignment and units , etc). Hopefully update the documentation .
3. How to get the desired output as below :
|Left.·····················································································································································Right.|

Thank You

No!!!
Suppose you have DIN A4 with 2.5 cm margins left and right, then the tab stop will have to be at 16 cm (or maybe 15.8 cm). You set it to 1 cm - this tab stop will be used only if left-aligned text plus right-aligned text will fit into 1 cm.

Tab stops work much like those in Microsoft Word, so you can play around with tab stops in Word (you can easily test different setups).

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team