Text in rowspan cell breaks on page break - itext

Question

I am using iText 5.5.4 to generate a pdf.
I have a a bunch of rows that should be grouped together and have a rowspan cell to name the group. But, on page break, the word "GRP" is broken into "G"
and "RP". Is there a way to make group unbreakable so that it will be drawn on next page if it can't fit on the current one?
I tried keepRowsTogether and setBreakpoints, but didn't get consistent results.
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| G | row 1 |
| R | row 2 |
| P | row 3 |
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Layout Image:
Document document = new Document(new Rectangle(300, 125));
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
document.open();
document.add(new Paragraph("Table with setSplitLate(true):"));
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(2);
table.setWidths(new float[]{1,5});
table.setSpacingBefore(10);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.addElement(new Paragraph("G"));
cell.addElement(new Paragraph("R"));
cell.addElement(new Paragraph("O"));
cell.addElement(new Paragraph("U"));
cell.addElement(new Paragraph("P"));
//PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell( new Phrase("GROUP"));
//cell.setNoWrap(true);
//cell.setRotation(90);
//cell.setVerticalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE);
//cell.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
cell.setRowspan(5);
table.addCell(cell);
table.addCell("row 1");
table.addCell("row 2");
table.addCell("row 3");
table.addCell("row 4");
table.addCell("row 5");
document.add(table);
document.add(new Paragraph("Table with setSplitLate(false):"));
table.setSplitLate(false);
document.add(table);
document.close();
PDF Output from above code

Answer 1

As you didn't provide any code which is kind of mandatory when you post a question on StackOverflow (unless you're not really interested in getting an answer), I have tried to write an example to reproduce the (undesired) result.
I didn't succeed. See my SplittingAndRowspan example:
document.add(new Paragraph("Table with setSplitLate(true):"));
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(2);
table.setSpacingBefore(10);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.addElement(new Paragraph("G"));
cell.addElement(new Paragraph("R"));
cell.addElement(new Paragraph("P"));
cell.setRowspan(3);
table.addCell(cell);
table.addCell("row 1");
table.addCell("row 2");
table.addCell("row 3");
document.add(table);
I didn't really use setSplitLate(true); because the default value of the split late parameter is true. The result looks like this:
As the cell containing G R P doesn't fit the page, the table is forwarded to the next page (which is exactly what you want).
Of course, this doesn't happen when I use setSplitLate(false):
document.add(new Paragraph("Table with setSplitLate(false):"));
table.setSplitLate(false);
document.add(table);
In this case, the cell containing G R P is split:
Based on the scarce information shared in your question, I assume that you have the line table.setSplitLate(false); somewhere in your code. If so, please remove it. If not, please share your code.