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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);

Set cell height in PDF table created with itextsharp

I used a following code to create a table in my itextsharp PDF document:
foreach (var subComp in competency.SubCompetensies)
{
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(0, subComp.DescriptionMin, _nfDescr));
cell.Padding = 5;
cell.Rowspan = 2;
table.AddCell(cell);
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(0, subComp.Name, _nfSubComp));
cell.Colspan = 10;
cell.Padding = 5;
table.AddCell(cell);
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(subComp.DescriptionMax, _nfDescr));
cell.Padding = 5;
cell.Rowspan = 2;
table.AddCell(cell);
for (int i = 1; i < 11; i++)
{
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(0, i.ToString(), _nfScale));
cell.FixedHeight = 15f;
cell.Padding = 3;
cell.PaddingLeft = 5;
table.AddCell(cell);
}
}
And here is the result:
As you can see height of cells with numbers is different in every row. It seems that cell.FixedHeight property is ignored.
Is there any way to set fixed height of these cells?

Well, I found a solution. As for me, it seems little pervert, but my deadline doesn't care about how exquisite my code is.
May be somene will find it useful.
Why FixedHeight is ignored?
Because the cells with the numbers drawn last they consume all the free space in a row.
Possible solutions
I can see only two ways:
Obviously, change the order of cells in a row
Render central part of the row by myself
I desided to choose the second way.
Instead of creating therteen cells with rowspans/colspans and adding them to one row, I add only three cells:
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(0, subComp.DescriptionMin, _nfDescr));
cell.MinimumHeight = 50;
cell.Padding = 5;
cell.BorderColor = BaseColor.WHITE;
cell.BackgroundColor = new BaseColor(233, 240, 242);
table.AddCell(cell);
cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.CellEvent = new CellEvents(subComp);
cell.BorderColor = BaseColor.WHITE;
table.AddCell(cell);
cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(subComp.DescriptionMax, _nfDescr));
cell.Padding = 5;
cell.BorderColor = BaseColor.WHITE;
cell.BackgroundColor = new BaseColor(233, 240, 242);
table.AddCell(cell);
I add custom cell event to the second sell. It is fired after the cell height is set and before layout rendering. Here is the code of event handler:
private class CellEvents : IPdfPCellEvent
{
public void CellLayout(PdfPCell cell, Rectangle position, PdfContentByte[] canvases)
{
int scoreCellHeight = 20;
var pdfContentByte = canvases[0];
pdfContentByte.SaveState();
pdfContentByte.Rectangle(pos.Left, pos.Bottom + scoreCellHeight, pos.Width, pos.Height - scoreCellHeight);
pdfContentByte.SetColorFill(new BaseColor(233, 240, 242));
pdfContentByte.Fill();
ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(pdfContentByte);
ct.SetSimpleColumn(new Phrase(_model.Name, _nfSubComp), pos.Left, pos.Bottom + 20, pos.Left + pos.Width, pos.Bottom + pos.Height - 5, 10, Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
ct.Go();
float scaleWidth = pos.Width / 10;
for (int i = 1; i < 11; i++)
{
float scaleLeft = pos.Left + (i - 1) * pos.Width / 10;
pdfContentByte.Rectangle(scaleLeft, pos.Bottom, scaleWidth, scoreCellHeight);
pdfContentByte.SetColorFill(i % 2 == 1
? new BaseColor(Color.LightBlue)
: new BaseColor(233, 240, 242));
pdfContentByte.Fill();
ct.SetSimpleColumn(new Phrase(i.ToString(), _nfScale), scaleLeft, pos.Bottom,
scaleLeft + scaleWidth, pos.Bottom + 7, 0, Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
ct.Go();
}
canvases[0].RestoreState();
}
}
I've skipped some details like class constructor and the code, that draws marker (red figures on the screenshot).
Result:
I guess, this workaround is not optimal. But I had to draw a red marker, so I had to handle cell render event, anyway.
Hope, someone can show correct solution.

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();

Make a PdfCell Editable in iTextSharp form

I am creating a PdfTable from iTextSharp but the pdf containing this table does not allow editing in its cells.
How can I make sure that the cell contents are editable in resulting pdf?
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable table = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable(columnsToAdd);
table.HorizontalAlignment = 0; //0=Left, 1=Centre, 2=Right
Font headerFont = new Font(Font.HELVETICA, 8f, Font.BOLD, Color.BLACK);
Font bodyFont = new Font(Font.HELVETICA, 6f, Font.NORMAL, Color.BLACK);
PdfPCell cEmpId = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Emp ID", headerFont));
PdfPCell cEmpAge = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Emp Age", headerFont));
table.AddCell(cEmpId);
table.AddCell(cEmpAge);
foreach(Child child in childData)
{
PdfPCell cellEmpID = new PdfPCell {FixedHeight = 10f};
cellEmpID.Phrase = (new Phrase(child.Emp_ID.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture),
bodyFont));
PdfPCell cellEmpAge = new PdfPCell {Phrase = (new Phrase(child.Emp_Age, bodyFont))};
table.AddCell(cellEmpID);
table.AddCell(cellEmpAge);
}
EDIT 1:
Based on Chris's answer, I am going to try out the following code, but not sure at this time.
//WITHIN THE LOOP IN MY CODE ABOVE ADD THESE LINES FOR EVERY PDF CELL
//Create our textfield, the rectangle that we're passing in is ignored and doesn't matter
var tfEmpID = new TextField(writer, new iTextSharp.text.Rectangle(0, 0), child.Emp_ID);
//Set the cell event to our custom IPdfPCellEvent implementation
cellEmpID.CellEvent = new ChildFieldEvent(root, tfEmpID.GetTextField(), 1);
//THEN OUTSIDE THE LOOP
//IMPORTANT! Add the root annotation to the writer which also adds all of the child annotations
writer.AddAnnotation(root);

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;