How to Set Height of PdfPTable in iTextSharp

Question

i downloaded the last version of iTextSharp dll. I generated a PdfPTable object and i have to set it\'s height. Despite to set width of PdfPTable, im not able to set height

Answer 1

The premise is that you have downloaded the jar iText jar,you can try this code,you can achive this function,In a A4 paper out a row of three columns of dataeg:

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class ceshi {

    public static final String DEST = "D:\\fixed_height_cell.pdf";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
            DocumentException {
        File file = new File(DEST);
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        new ceshi().createPdf(DEST);
    }

    public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        Document document = new Document();
        PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
        document.open();
        PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3);// Set a row and the three column of
                                            // A4 paper
        table.setWidthPercentage(100);
        PdfPCell cell;
        for (int r = 1; r <= 2; r++) {// Set display two lines
            for (int c = 1; c <= 3; c++) {// Set to display a row of three  columns
                cell = new PdfPCell();
                cell.addElement(new Paragraph("test"));
                cell.setFixedHeight(285);// Control the fixed height of each cell
                table.addCell(cell);
            }
        }
        document.add(table);
        document.close();
    }
}