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I am trying to create a pdf. Data is directly taken from edit text but the problem is that if I write any paragraph in the edit text the final out in pdf is showing all data in 1 line instead of multi-line.
Although pdf is getting created and I can see the output only in 1 single line.
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public class Main2Activity extends AppCompatActivity {

    Button btnCreate;

    EditText editText,editText2;

    @Override

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main2);



        btnCreate = (Button)findViewById(R.id.create);

        editText =(EditText) findViewById(R.id.edittext);

        editText2 =(EditText) findViewById(R.id.edittext2);

        btnCreate.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @RequiresApi(api = Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT)

            @Override

            public void onClick(View view) {

                createPdf(editText.getText().toString(),editText2.getText().toString());

            }

        });

    }



    @RequiresApi(api = Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT)

    private void createPdf(String title,String description){

        // create a new document

        PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();

        // crate a page description



        PdfDocument.PageInfo pageInfo = new PdfDocument.PageInfo.Builder(300, 600, 1).create();

        // start a page

        PdfDocument.Page page = document.startPage(pageInfo);



        Canvas canvas = page.getCanvas();

        Paint paint = new Paint();

        paint.setColor(Color.BLACK);

        canvas.drawText(title, 20, 40, paint);

        canvas.drawText(description, 20, 60, paint);

       // canvas.drawText(description,1,20,20.0f,30.0f,paint);

        //canvas.drawt

        // finish the page

        document.finishPage(page);

// draw text on the graphics object of the page



        // write the document content

        String directory_path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath() + "/mypdf/";

        File file = new File(directory_path);

        if (!file.exists()) {

            file.mkdirs();

        }

        String targetPdf = directory_path+title+".pdf";

        File filePath = new File(targetPdf);

        try {

            document.writeTo(new FileOutputStream(filePath));

            Toast.makeText(this, "Done", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

        } catch (IOException e) {

            Log.e("main", "error "+e.toString());

            Toast.makeText(this, "Something wrong: " + e.toString(),  

Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

        }

        // close the document

        document.close();

    }

}

I think that's because multiline is property of EditText, not String, so if you read it from ET it will always be in single line. You can try to set max line length, and then read characters to limit, and then add it to new String, for example ArrayList<String> (you don't know how long text will be). If line limit doesn't end with , or . or space, then you read it further till , or . or space occurs. After all that you add whole ArrayList to your pdf, ending with n each row.

Try splitting the string you get from the editText with some predefined Length and then using it in canvas.drawText()

while(description.length()>15){

    if(description.length()>15){

        String first = description.substring(0,15);

        canvas.drawText(description, 20, 60, paint);

    }

    else{

        String second =description.substring(0,description.length());

        canvas.drawText(description, 20, 60, paint);

    }



}

I have not tried this one. This might work