The following should work according to the documentation but it's not working for me. Am I missing something?
PdfPTable rs1 = new PdfPTable(1);
PdfPCell c = new PdfPCell();
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("some text to align");
c.AddElement(p);
c.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE;
rs1.AddCell(c);
rs1.AddCell("more text");
return rs1;
The thing with iTextSharp is that it will behave differently depending on which constructor you use. This won't align the text:
PdfPCell c = new PdfPCell();
c.Add(new Phrase("Whatever"));
c.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
But this will:
PdfPCell c = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Whatever"));
c.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
I don't know exactly why this is, it's got something to do with the cell being in 'text mode' if you add the phrase in the constructor versus 'composite mode' if you add it later (in which case each object is supposed to look after it's own alignment).
Some more info (in Java, but still applies) http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-itext/table.html#cell-modes
Ah. You need to set the PdfCell's vertical alignment, not the paragraph.
PdfPCell c = new PdfPCell();
c.setVerticalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE);
...
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I'm using iTextSharp 5.5.13 and when i try to generate the PDF with Hebrew it comes out empty.
this is my code: I'm i doing something wrong?
public byte[] GenerateIvhunPdf(FinalIvhunSolution ivhun)
{
byte[] pdfBytes;
using (var mem = new MemoryStream())
{
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, mem);
writer.PageEvent = new MyHeaderNFooter();
document.Open();
var font = new
Font(BaseFont.CreateFont("C:\\Downloads\\fonts\\Rubik-Light.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED), 14);
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("פסקת פתיחה")
{
Alignment = Element.ALIGN_RIGHT
};
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(2)
{
RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL
};
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("מזהה", font));
cell.BackgroundColor = BaseColor.BLACK;
table.AddCell(cell);
document.Add(p);
document.Add(table);
document.Close();
pdfBytes = mem.ToArray();
}
return pdfBytes;
}
The PDF comes out blank
I changed a few details of your code, and now I get this:
My changes:
Embedding the font
As I don't have Rubik installed on my system, I have to embed the font into the PDF to have a chance to see anything. Thus, I replaced BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED by BaseFont.EMBEDDED when creating the var font:
var font = new Font(BaseFont.CreateFont("Rubik-Light.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED), 14);
Making the Paragraph kind of work
You create the Paragraph p without specifying a font. Thus, a default font with default encoding is used. The default encoding is WinAnsiEncoding which is Latin1-like, so no Hebrew characters can be represented. I added your Rubik font instance to the Paragraph p creation:
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("פסקת פתיחה", font)
{
Alignment = Element.ALIGN_RIGHT
};
Et voilà, the writing appears.
iText developers often have communicated that in iText 5.x and earlier right-to-left scripts are only supported properly in certain contexts, e.g. in tables, but not in others like paragraphs immediately added to the document. As your Paragraph p is added immediately to the Document document, its letters appear in the wrong order in the output.
Making the PdfPTable work
You defined the PdfPTable table to have two columns (new PdfPTable(2)) but then you added only one cell. Thus, table contains not even a single complete row. iText, therefore, draws nothing when it is added to the document.
I changed the definition of table to have a single column only:
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1)
{
RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL
};
Furthermore, I commented out the line setting the cell background to black because usually it is difficult to read black on black:
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("מזהה", font));
//cell.BackgroundColor = BaseColor.BLACK;
table.AddCell(cell);
And again the writing appears.
Properly downloading the font
Another possible obstacle is that when downloading the font from the URL you gave — https://fonts.google.com/selection?selection.family=Rubik — one can see in the customization tab of the selection drawer that by default only Latin characters are included in the download, in particular not Hebrew ones:
I tested with a font file I downloaded with all language options enabled:
Hi I recently posted a question here :
IText PDFImage seems to shrink or disappear during new pages after upgrade from 2.1.7 to 5.5.5 (Java .jars)
But I think it is not the problem with the library but more of a missing setting sort of problem. I am wondering if there is a way to control what element gets drawn on the existing page verses pushing to a new page
I want to do the following
-create document
-create pdfPTable
-create a bunch of image element for each PdfPCells
-add to pdfPTable then write to document
Result: It seems that some images get shrink near the end/beginng of the page or is missing ( seems like its trying to fit on to the page )
Sample code again for visibility
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = createTemporaryOutputStream();
Document doc = newDocument();
PdfWriter writer = newWriter(doc, baos);
writer.setViewerPreferences(PdfWriter.ALLOW_PRINTING | PdfWriter.PageLayoutSinglePage);
//create page rectangle landscape
Rectangle page = new Rectangle(PageSize.A4.rotate());
doc.setPageSize(page);
doc.setMargins((float)36.0, (float)36.0, (float)36.0, (float)36.0);
doc.open();
//create element pdf table.
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(new float[]{(float) 770.0});
table.setWidthPercentage(100);
table.setSplitRows(true);
table.setSplitLate(false);
table.setHeaderRows(0);
// in my case I used 5 800*600 images (same picture)
//then I loop through them and create pdfcell
//and then add it to table which then gets added to the document
List<Image> hi = (List<Image>) model.get("images");
for (Image image : hi) {
com.itextpdf.text.Image pdfImage = com.itextpdf.text.Image.getInstance(image.getBytes());
pdfImage.scalePercent((float) (0.8642384 * 100));
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(pdfImage, false);
table.addCell(cell);
}
doc.add(table);
doc.close();
thank you for your time. Any insight as to what my problem is would be helpful
I use iTextSharp v5.5.6
I'm creating a large table.
To be consistent in my layout I want to use the DefaultCell class to set some default settings like font, padding and alignment.
I'm not doing something correct because the settings are not applied to my cells.
Here's some code:
var table = new PdfPTable(2)
{ KeepTogether = true, TotalWidth = printWidth, LockedWidth = true,
HorizontalAlignment = 0, SpacingBefore = 0, SpacingAfter = 15f };
// Set default values:
table.DefaultCell.Colspan = 1;
table.DefaultCell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_LEFT;
table.DefaultCell.Padding = 5f;
table.DefaultCell.PaddingLeft = 5f;
table.DefaultCell.PaddingBottom = 5f;
table.DefaultCell.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_BOTTOM;
table.DefaultCell.BorderWidthBottom = 0f;
table.DefaultCell.Phrase = new Phrase { Font = Blue11BoldFont };
table.DefaultCell.Border = Rectangle.NO_BORDER;
table.AddCell(new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Foo"))
{ HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER, MinimumHeight = 20f });
table.AddCell(new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Bar", Black10BoldFont))
{ Colspan = 4, HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER });
I would have expected my first cell would use my blue font and padding is applied.
But nothing is applied. In fact when I remove the DefaultCell lines I get the same result.
I've been searching for hours now and most samples I've found use something similar.
Any suggestion is much appreaciated.
You are creating PdfPCell objects yourself. In that case, the default cell is always ignored.
See What is the PdfPTable.DefaultCell property used for?
When creating a PdfPTable, you add cells.
One way is to create a PdfPCell object and to add that cell with the addCell() method. In this case, you are responsible to define the properties of each individual cell.
Another way is to use a short-cut: you don't create a PdfPCell, but you add a String or a Phrase to the table with the addCell() method. In this case, a PdfPCell is created internally using default properties. You can change the default properties by changing the properties of the default cell. The default cell is obtained using the getDefaultCell() method.
This is not a bug, this is by design. You are misinterpreting the meaning of the concept of the "default cell". Note that this concept was explained in the free ebook The Best iText Questions on StackOverflow.
If you want to be consistent in your layout, the best way to do this, is by creating your own createCell() method that creates a PdfPCell to which you apply all the properties for which you were using the default cell.
I have a pdf which include text written in Type 3 Font.
I want to get some text from it and write it into other pdf in exactly same shape.
I am using itext. Please give me a tip.
edit: I attached my code.
DocumentFont f = renderInfo.getFont();
String str = renderInfo.getText();
x = renderInfo.getBaseline().getStartPoint().get(Vector.I1);
In this code, I want to write str into x value position.
In Type 3 Font, is it work?
You can copy parts of one page to a new one using code like this:
InputStream resourceStream = getClass().getResourceAsStream("from.pdf");
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(new FileOutputStream("from.pdf"));
Rectangle pagesize = reader.getPageSizeWithRotation(1);
Document document = new Document(pagesize);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("areaOfFrom.pdf"));
document.open();
PdfContentByte content = writer.getDirectContent();
PdfImportedPage page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 1);
content.saveState();
content.rectangle(0, 350, 360, 475);
content.clip();
content.newPath();
content.addTemplate(page, 0, 0);
content.restoreState();
document.close();
reader.close();
This turns your
into
Unfortunately, though, that hidden content is merely... hidden... but it is still there. You can especially mark the lines with that hidden text and try to copy&paste them.
If you want to completely remove that hidden text (or start out by merely copying the desired text), you have to inspect the content of the imported page and filter it. I'm afraid iText does not yet explicitly support something like that. It can be done using the iText lowlevel API but it is quite some work.
There is a List in a LWUIT application. I want to make odd rows and even rows to be of different colors. How to achieve that ?
You can set two differents UIIDs to the rows. Setting this UIID you can modify selectively the colors of your rows.
EDIT
Ok this will be more difficult.
You need to make a Render and set it in your List with List.setRender(Render r).
The ´Render´ class will extend from ListCellRender. In this class you can set UIID to the Render, setting its Selected or Unselected styles.
See this example. #Shai Almog could have more info for your problem.
http://www.lwuit.com/2008/07/lwuit-list-renderer-by-chen-fishbein.html
What you need is the Generic List Cell Renderer, you will probably have to create the styles in code, or set the UIID from the resource editor.
List list = new List(createGenericListCellRendererModelData());
list.setRenderer(new GenericListCellRenderer(createGenericRendererContainer(), createGenericRendererContainer()));
private Container createGenericRendererContainer() {
Container c = new Container(new BorderLayout());
c.setUIID("ListRenderer");
Label name = new Label();
name.setFocusable(true);
name.setName("Name");
c.addComponent(BorderLayout.CENTER, name);
Label surname = new Label();
surname.setFocusable(true);
surname.setName("Surname");
c.addComponent(BorderLayout.SOUTH, surname);
CheckBox selected = new CheckBox();
selected.setName("Selected");
selected.setFocusable(true);
c.addComponent(BorderLayout.WEST, selected);
return c;
}
private Hashtable[] createGenericListCellRendererModelData() {
Hashtable[] data = new Hashtable[5];
data[0] = new Hashtable();
data[0].put("Name", "Shai");
data[0].put("Surname", "Almog");
data[0].put("Selected", Boolean.TRUE);
data[1] = new Hashtable();
data[1].put("Name", "Chen");
data[1].put("Surname", "Fishbein");
data[1].put("Selected", Boolean.TRUE);
data[2] = new Hashtable();
data[2].put("Name", "Ofir");
data[2].put("Surname", "Leitner");
data[3] = new Hashtable();
data[3].put("Name", "Yaniv");
data[3].put("Surname", "Vakarat");
data[4] = new Hashtable();
data[4].put("Name", "Meirav");
data[4].put("Surname", "Nachmanovitch");
return data;
}
Full details here : http://lwuit.blogspot.com/2011/03/list-rendering-easy-way-generic-list.html (code gotten from this link).