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Align text in center of cell next to image in itexsharp

Here is visual what my problem looks like.
Here is my code that produce that result.
public void intervencionHeaderLogo(string pictureURL,int width, int height)
{
iTextSharp.text.Image image = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(pictureURL));
image.ScaleAbsolute(width, height);
image.Alignment = 2;
//Table
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.TIMES_ROMAN, BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
iTextSharp.text.Font font = new iTextSharp.text.Font(bf, 20, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL);
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("Reporte de intervención", font);
//Cell no 1
cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.Border = 0;
cell.AddElement(p);
cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
table.AddCell(cell);
//Cell no 2
cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.Border = 0;
cell.AddElement(image);
table.AddCell(cell);
//Add table to document
pdfDoc.Add(table);
}
Here is what I want to have.
Any help would be appriciated

I was able to fix it i made a mistake i create a table of 1 when i should have made it of size 2.
//Table
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(2);
and the i added a line break like this in the paragraph like this
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("\nReporte de intervención", font);

Text is not even between two cells when inserting an image and text in the same cell, ITextSharp

I have table with 3 columns and one row. In cell 1 I have a phrase and in cell 2, next to the phrase I have an Image and a text.
I am able to combine the image and the text in a same cell but. The problem I have now is that the text in cell 1 is in a higher position than the text in cell 2 and I don't know why. And I need them to be even.
this is the result:
this is my code:
private void btnCrear_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Document doc = new Document(PageSize.LETTER);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc,
new FileStream((Application.StartupPath+"\\PSC.pdf"), FileMode.Create));
doc.AddTitle("Recibo de Pago de Derechos Laborales");
doc.AddCreator("Errol");
doc.Open();
/*Get Image and set size*/
iTextSharp.text.Image SC = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(Application.StartupPath+"\\SimboloColones.png");
SC.ScaleAbsolute(5, 8);
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3);/*3 columns*/
table.TotalWidth = 588;
table.LockedWidth = true;
/*Cell 1*/
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Preaviso"));
cell.Colspan = 1;
cell.HorizontalAlignment = 2;
cell.BorderColor = BaseColor.BLACK;
cell.BorderWidthBottom = 0;
cell.BorderWidthTop = 0;
cell.BorderWidthRight = 0;
cell.BorderWidthLeft = 0;
table.AddCell(cell);
/*Cell 2*/
cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.Colspan = 1;
cell.HorizontalAlignment = 0;
cell.BorderColor = BaseColor.BLACK;
/*Insert Image and text into the cell*/
Phrase pPreaviso = new Phrase();
pPreaviso.Add(new Chunk(SC, 0, 0));
pPreaviso.Add(new Chunk("Cant Pre"));
cell.AddElement(pPreaviso);
table.AddCell(cell);
/*Cell 3*/
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(" "));
cell.Colspan = 1;
cell.HorizontalAlignment = 1;
cell.BorderColor = BaseColor.BLACK;
cell.BorderWidthBottom = 0;
cell.BorderWidthTop = 0;
cell.BorderWidthRight = 0;
cell.BorderWidthLeft = 0;
table.AddCell(cell);
doc.Add(table);
doc.Close();
writer.Close();
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.StartupPath+"\\PSC.pdf");
}
I don't know what is wrong with the code.
Thanks in advance

Thanks to #BrunoLowagie I was able to come up with a solution. However, I also nedded the text alignment to be centered, therefore I ended up using Paragraph instead of Phrase for all the texts in the cells.
This is the final result:
And, this is the code that ended up working for me:
private void btnCrear_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Document doc = new Document(PageSize.LETTER);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc,
new FileStream((Application.StartupPath+"\\PSC.pdf"), FileMode.Create));
doc.AddTitle("Recibo de Pago de Derechos Laborales");
doc.AddCreator("Errol");
doc.Open();
/*Get Image and set size*/
iTextSharp.text.Image SC = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(Application.StartupPath+"\\SimboloColones.png");
SC.ScaleAbsolute(5, 8);
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3);/*3 columns*/
table.TotalWidth = 588;
table.LockedWidth = true;
/*Cell 1*/
Paragraph Preaviso = new Paragraph();
Preaviso.Add(new Chunk("Preaviso"));
Preaviso.Alignment = 2;
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.Colspan = 1;
cell.HorizontalAlignment = 2;
cell.BorderColor = BaseColor.BLACK;
cell.BorderWidthBottom = 0;
cell.BorderWidthTop = 0;
cell.BorderWidthRight = 0;
cell.BorderWidthLeft = 0;
cell.AddElement(Preaviso);
table.AddCell(cell);
/*Cell 2*/
Paragraph pPreaviso = new Paragraph();
SC.ScaleAbsolute(5, 8);
pPreaviso.Add(new Chunk(SC, 0, 0));
pPreaviso.Add(new Chunk("Cant Pre"));
pPreaviso.Alignment = 0;
cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.Colspan = 1;
cell.HorizontalAlignment = 0;
cell.BorderColor = BaseColor.BLACK;
cell.AddElement(pPreaviso);
table.AddCell(cell);
/*Cell 3*/
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(" "));
cell.Colspan = 1;
cell.HorizontalAlignment = 1;
cell.BorderColor = BaseColor.BLACK;
cell.BorderWidthBottom = 0;
cell.BorderWidthTop = 0;
cell.BorderWidthRight = 0;
cell.BorderWidthLeft = 0;
table.AddCell(cell);
doc.Add(table);
doc.Close();
writer.Close();
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.StartupPath+"\\PSC.pdf");
}

Formatting itextsharp table

I have a given table with 2 columns which I try to export to pdf.
This is my code:
PdfPTable tableUebersicht = new PdfPTable(dtUebersicht100.Columns.Count);
tableUebersicht.SetWidths(new float[] { 250, 420 });
tableUebersicht.LockedWidth = true;
tableUebersicht.TotalWidth = 500f;
foreach (DataColumn c in dtUebersicht100.Columns)
{
PdfPCell Spalte = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(c.ColumnName, VerdanaFont));
Spalte.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
Spalte.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE;
table.AddCell(Spalte);
}
foreach (DataRow dr in dtUebersicht100.Rows)
{
PdfPCell Spalte0 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(dr[0].ToString(), VerdanaFont));
Spalte0.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
Spalte0.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE;
double Double1 = Convert.ToDouble(dr[1].ToString());
PdfPCell Spalte1 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(string.Format("{0:C2}", Double1), VerdanaFont));
Spalte1.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_RIGHT;
Spalte1.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE;
table.AddCell(Spalte0);
table.AddCell(Spalte1);
}
table.WriteSelectedRows(0, -1, 35, 757, cb);
The output looks as followed:
As you can see the table direction is from left to right and not from up to down.
I would like to have a table like this where the direction is up to down, on the bottom of the page get up and continue left beside, every second row colored:

overview of the solution
look at the table header, there are 4 columns
generate an iText table object, with 4 columns
add cells in the order left to right, top to bottom
in your case that would be:
Verkaufernummer, Betrag, Verkaufernummer, Betrag
1, 55.04, 50, 3.5
keep track of the row you are currently rendering on, depending on the row, set the background color of the cell (in your logic even vs odd)

Itextsharp PDFPTable how to make a border around entire table

I'm building a table via a database in Itextsharp with PDFPTable, and the requirements are that no rows/cells in the table have a top or bottom bottom border, but the left and right sides of each cell have a black border (in other words, each column has a left a right border), and the bottom of the table needs to be closed off with a black border as well, which is where my problem lies.
What I'm doing is setting the border to 0, then manually assign borders so that I only get the left and right borders on each cell, as seen below as an example of a "Quantity" column being generated:
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(Qty.value, subheaderFont));
cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
cell.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE;
cell.BackgroundColor = new iTextSharp.text.BaseColor(220, 220, 220);
cell.Border = 0;
cell.BorderColorLeft = BaseColor.BLACK;
cell.BorderWidthLeft = .5f;
cell.BorderColorRight = BaseColor.BLACK;
cell.BorderWidthRight = .5f;
table.AddCell(cell);
The issue is obviously I have no way of detecting the last row to add the border-bottom, but I imagine there has to be a way to control the border of the "table" itself, or am I taking the wrong approach to this?

As you found, PdfPTable doesn't have borders, probably because PDF's don't have tables in the first place. It probably just made more sense to put the borders on the PdfPCell directly (even though PDFs don't support those, either). A table is just a collection of cells, anyway, so let them deal with it.
Anyway, the solution is to set the TableEvent on your instance of the PdfPTable class. To do this you'll need a custom implementation of the IPdfPTableEvent interface. The below code should generally do this for you (see the notes at the bottom for "generally")
class TopBottomTableBorderMaker : IPdfPTableEvent {
private BaseColor _borderColor;
private float _borderWidth;
/// <summary>
/// Add a top and bottom border to the table.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="borderColor">The color of the border.</param>
/// <param name="borderWidth">The width of the border</param>
public TopBottomTableBorderMaker(BaseColor borderColor, float borderWidth ) {
this._borderColor = borderColor;
this._borderWidth = borderWidth;
}
public void TableLayout(PdfPTable table, float[][] widths, float[] heights, int headerRows, int rowStart, PdfContentByte[] canvases) {
//widths (should be thought of as x's) is an array of arrays, first index is for each row, second index is for each column
//The below uses first and last to calculate where each X should start and end
var firstRowWidths = widths[0];
var lastRowWidths = widths[widths.Length - 1];
var firstRowXStart = firstRowWidths[0];
var firstRowXEnd = firstRowWidths[firstRowWidths.Length - 1] - firstRowXStart;
var lastRowXStart = lastRowWidths[0];
var lastRowXEnd = lastRowWidths[lastRowWidths.Length - 1] - lastRowXStart;
//heights (should be thought of as y's) is the y for each row's top plus one extra for the last row's bottom
//The below uses first and last to calculate where each Y should start and end
var firstRowYStart = heights[0];
var firstRowYEnd = heights[1] - firstRowYStart;
var lastRowYStart = heights[heights.Length - 1];
var lastRowYEnd = heights[heights.Length - 2] - lastRowYStart;
//Where we're going to draw our lines
PdfContentByte canvas = canvases[PdfPTable.LINECANVAS];
//I always try to save the previous state before changinge anything
canvas.SaveState();
//Set our line properties
canvas.SetLineWidth(this._borderWidth);
canvas.SetColorStroke(this._borderColor);
//Draw some rectangles
canvas.Rectangle(
firstRowXStart,
firstRowYStart,
firstRowXEnd,
firstRowYEnd
);
//They aren't actually drawn until you stroke them!
canvas.Stroke();
canvas.Rectangle(
lastRowXStart,
lastRowYStart,
lastRowXEnd,
lastRowYEnd
);
canvas.Stroke();
//Restore any previous settings
canvas.RestoreState();
}
}
Using it is very easy, just bind an instance to the property:
//Create your name as you normally do
var table = new PdfPTable(3);
//Bind and instance with properties set
table.TableEvent = new TopBottomTableBorderMaker(BaseColor.BLACK, 0.5f);
//The rest is the same
for (var i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
var cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(i.ToString()));
cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
cell.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE;
cell.BackgroundColor = new iTextSharp.text.BaseColor(220, 220, 220);
cell.Border = 0;
cell.BorderColorLeft = BaseColor.BLACK;
cell.BorderWidthLeft = .5f;
cell.BorderColorRight = BaseColor.BLACK;
cell.BorderWidthRight = .5f;
table.AddCell(cell);
}
Above I said "generally" it should work. If you have table headers and/or footers, however, you're going to need to take those into account, too. This shouldn't be too hard but you'll need to adjust the y values accounting for table.HeaderRows and table.FooterRows.

I have experienced the same issue found the following solution.
From "iText In Action Second Edition"
PdfPCell extends Rectangle, inheriting a plethora of methods to change the way borders are drawn and backgrounds are painted..
The method "DisableBorderSide(int Rectangle)" is how to go about removeing borders with any other sizing involved.
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Some Text", FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.EMBEDDED, 13, Font.NORMAL, BaseColor.BLACK)));
cell.BackgroundColor = new BaseColor(255, 255, 255);
cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
cell.BorderColor = BaseColor.BLACK;
cell.Border = Rectangle.BOX;
cell.BorderWidth = 1;
cell.DisableBorderSide(Rectangle.TOP_BORDER);
cell.DisableBorderSide(Rectangle.BOTTOM_BORDER);
cell.Padding = 3;
table.AddCell(cell);

I solved this using nested tables
'CREATE TWO PDFPTABLES
Dim tblNested1 As New PdfPTable(1)
Dim tblNested2 As New PdfPTable(3)
'CREATE CELLS WITH NO BORDER AND ADD THEM TO TABLE2
Dim cellNested1 = New PdfPCell(New Phrase("CELL1"))
cellNested1.Border = 0
tblNested2.AddCell(cellNested1)
Dim cellNested2 = New PdfPCell(New Phrase("CELL2"))
cellNested2.Border = 0
tblNested2.AddCell(cellNested2)
Dim cellNested3 = New PdfPCell(New Phrase("CELL3"))
cellNested3.Border = 0
tblNested2.AddCell(cellNested3)
'APPEND TABLE2 TO A CELL WITH DEFAULT BORDER
Dim cell1 As New PdfPCell
cell1.AddElement(tblNested2)
tblNested1.AddCell(cell1)
document.Add(tblNested1)

var Rectangular = new Rectangle(56, 621, 540,385);
Rectangular.BorderWidthLeft = 0.1f;
Rectangular.BorderWidthRight = 0.1f;
Rectangular.BorderWidthTop = 0.1f;
Rectangular.BorderWidthBottom = 0.1f;
cb.Rectangle(Rectangular);
cb.Stroke();

Hiding table border in iTextSharp

How can i hide the table border using iTextSharp. I am using following code to generate a file:
var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 25, 25);
// Create a new PdfWriter object, specifying the output stream
var output = new MemoryStream();
var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, output);
document.Open();
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3);
var bodyFont = FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", 10, Font.NORMAL);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Header spanning 3 columns"));
cell.Colspan = 3;
cell.HorizontalAlignment = 1; //0=Left, 1=Centre, 2=Right
table.AddCell(cell);
Font arial = FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", 6, BaseColor.BLUE);
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Font test is here ", arial));
cell.PaddingLeft = 5f;
cell.Colspan = 1;
table.AddCell(cell);
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("XYX"));
cell.Colspan = 2;
table.AddCell(cell);
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Hello World"));
cell.PaddingLeft = 5f;
cell.Colspan = 1;
table.AddCell(cell);
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("XYX"));
cell.Colspan = 2;
table.AddCell(cell);
table.SpacingBefore = 5f;
document.Add(table);
document.Close();
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=Receipt-test.pdf");
Response.BinaryWrite(output.ToArray());
Do I need to specify no borders for individual cells or I can specify no borders for table itself.
Thank you

Although I upvoted the answer by Martijn, I want to add a clarification.
Only cells have borders in iText; tables don't have a border. Martijn's suggestion to set the border of the default cell to NO_BORDER is correct:
table.DefaultCell.Border = Rectangle.NO_BORDER;
But it won't work for the code snippet provided in the question. The properties of the default cell are only used if iText needs to create a PdfPCell instance implicitly (for instance: if you use the addCell() method passing a Phrase as parameter).
In the code snippet provided by #Brown_Dynamite, the PdfPCell objects are created explicitly. This means that you need to set the border of each of these cells to NO_BORDER.
Usually, I write a factory class to create cells. That way, I can significantly reduce the amount of code in the class that creates the table.

This should do the trick:
table.DefaultCell.Border = Rectangle.NO_BORDER;
or
table.borderwidth= 0;

First we can set all cell borders as 0 and After assigning all cell to table we can use the following code for for only pdfptable outer border.
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.AddElement(t);
cell.BorderWidthBottom=1f;
cell.BorderWidthLeft=1f;
cell.BorderWidthTop=1f;
cell.BorderWidthRight = 1f;
PdfPTable t1 = new PdfPTable(1);
t1.AddCell(cell);
Here we can add table to one cell and can set border and again add that cell to another table and we can use as per our requirement.

If your PdfPTable is nested within another PdfPTable, the nested table will show table borders. The only way to get rid of the table borders is to put the nested PdfPTable into a PdfPCell of the main PdfPTable and set the border width of that cell to 0.
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable table = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable(1); //<-- Main table
table.TotalWidth = 540f;
table.LockedWidth = true;
float[] widths = new float[] { 540f };
table.SetWidths(widths);
table.HorizontalAlignment = 1; //0=Left, 1=Centre, 2=Right
table.SpacingAfter = 10;
PdfPTable bodyTable = new PdfPTable(1); //<--Nested Table
bodyTable.TotalWidth = 540f;
bodyTable.LockedWidth = true;
float[] bodyWidths = new float[] { 540f };
bodyTable.SetWidths(bodyWidths);
bodyTable.HorizontalAlignment = 0;
bodyTable.SpacingAfter = 10;
bodyTable.DefaultCell.Border = iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.NO_BORDER;
var para1 = new Paragraph("This is a long paragraph", blackNormal);
para1.SetLeading(3f, 1f);
PdfPCell bodyCell1 = new PdfPCell();
bodyCell1.AddElement(para1);
bodyCell1.Border = 0;
bodyTable.AddCell(bodyCell1);
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPCell cellBody = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPCell(bodyTable);
cellBody.BorderWidth = 0; //<--- This is what sets the border for the nested table
table.AddCell(cellBody);
Took me a long time to figure this out. It works for me now.

PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(4);
table.TotalWidth = 400f;
table.LockedWidth = true;
PdfPCell header = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Header"));
header.Colspan = 4;
table.AddCell(header);
table.AddCell("Cell 1");
table.AddCell("Cell 2");
table.AddCell("Cell 3");
table.AddCell("Cell 4");
PdfPTable nested = new PdfPTable(1);
nested.AddCell("Nested Row 1");
nested.AddCell("Nested Row 2");
nested.AddCell("Nested Row 3");
PdfPCell nesthousing = new PdfPCell(nested);
nesthousing.Padding = 0f;
table.AddCell(nesthousing);
PdfPCell bottom = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("bottom"));
bottom.Colspan = 3;
table.AddCell(bottom);
doc.Add(table);
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3);
table.TotalWidth = 144f;
table.LockedWidth = true;
table.HorizontalAlignment = 0;
PdfPCell left = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Rotated"));
left.Rotation = 90;
table.AddCell(left);
PdfPCell middle = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Rotated"));
middle.Rotation = -90;
table.AddCell(middle);
table.AddCell("Not Rotated");
doc.Add(table);
Check this link pls

try this code
yourtable.DefaultCell.Border = 0;