LineSpacing

ParagraphFormat.LineSpacing property

Gets or sets the line spacing (in points) for the paragraph.

public double LineSpacing { get; set; }

Remarks

When LineSpacingRule property is set to AtLeast, the line spacing can be greater than or equal to, but never less than the specified LineSpacing value.

When LineSpacingRule property is set to Exactly, the line spacing never changes from the specified LineSpacing value, even if a larger font is used within the paragraph.

Examples

Shows how to work with line spacing.

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

// Below are three line spacing rules that we can define using the
// paragraph's "LineSpacingRule" property to configure spacing between paragraphs.
// 1 -  Set a minimum amount of spacing.
// This will give vertical padding to lines of text of any size
// that is too small to maintain the minimum line-height.
builder.ParagraphFormat.LineSpacingRule = LineSpacingRule.AtLeast;
builder.ParagraphFormat.LineSpacing = 20;

builder.Writeln("Minimum line spacing of 20.");
builder.Writeln("Minimum line spacing of 20.");

// 2 -  Set exact spacing.
// Using font sizes that are too large for the spacing will truncate the text.
builder.ParagraphFormat.LineSpacingRule = LineSpacingRule.Exactly;
builder.ParagraphFormat.LineSpacing = 5;

builder.Writeln("Line spacing of exactly 5.");
builder.Writeln("Line spacing of exactly 5.");

// 3 -  Set spacing as a multiple of default line spacing, which is 12 points by default.
// This kind of spacing will scale to different font sizes.
builder.ParagraphFormat.LineSpacingRule = LineSpacingRule.Multiple;
builder.ParagraphFormat.LineSpacing = 18;

builder.Writeln("Line spacing of 1.5 default lines.");
builder.Writeln("Line spacing of 1.5 default lines.");

doc.Save(ArtifactsDir + "ParagraphFormat.LineSpacing.docx");

See Also

ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent ParagraphFormat.LineSpacingRule