Standalone multi-line JLabel vertical alignment

I have a JLabel subclass that I am using an a Servlet environment, with iText to create a PDF. When I set the vertical alignment to CENTER, the vertical spacing is not correct and the label runs off the bottom of its allocated area. The JLabel is not attached to any Container, it is simply a standalone JLabel with no parent.
I've done a little digging/debugging and it appears that the View (a javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicHTML$Renderer) is returning the height of a single line of text from getPreferredSpan(View.Y_AXIS), even though when painted, the label spans several lines. This causes SwingUtilities.layoutCompoundLabel to calculate the wrong starting Y value for the text area.
When I use this JLabel subclass in a GUI/Swing program that I have, added to a JPanel, it works correctly.
Looking for any clues or suggestions.

Partial answer:
I noticed that in the GUI environment, that the paint() method was being called twice. The first time through, the height of the text was calculated as I described above in the standalone environment - for only a single line of text. The second time through, it calculated the height correctly.
I changed my subclass to call super.paint(g) (with a dummy Graphics) if there is no parent. This "fixes" the problem in the standalone environment.
I theorise that it takes 2 passes through the size calculations in the View - once to set the width and again to set the height. Any further insights are welcome.

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