difference between align and alignment?

'align' is a panel attribute that can be extended and used on virtually any object, this will serve to align the entire object to either: left, right or center.

'alignment' is used within a text object tag. This serves to align the text within the text area created when the text tag is invoked. Alignment can be used to move your text to a left, right, or center alignment.

Ian, you might want to check the align attribute in the add a pdf tutorial.

<text name="main" width="110" height="100" color="#000000" font="courier" size="12" align="center" valign="center" alignment="center" text="Hello World!"></text>


I was having trouble getting my text to be centered, so I did try the 'alignment' attribute to get it to be centered.

Bryan,

The tutorial does use the alignment tag in step 2 when you wrap your text tag in a panel tag for placement in the PDF.

Can you give me some more detail on where you were having trouble?