Does the PDF Library support a news-paper or column type layout?
Not directly, but it can be done. Using the LayoutBox class you could first create a LayoutBox the width of one column. Fill this with your text, pictures etc., and then call the LayoutBox.split() method to split the LayoutBox into column-length chunks. Then just draw each chunk side by side on the page. A simple example illustrating this is included with the download package as “ColumnLayout.java”.