[iText-questions] Vertical alignment in PdfPCell

[Joshua C. Lerner]

Hi - I see that there have been questions on this topic before - how to
align text vertically in a PdfPCell. I read the posts but I'm not sure
what if anything I'm doing wrong.

The online docs note that "you can't always trust on the vertical
alignment." Is there any workaround I can try?

I'm running iText 0.92 and Java 1.4 (j2sdk-1.4.0-fcs) from Sun.

Compilable excerpt from my source code is below.

Thanks in advance very much.

Joshua Lerner


file align.java:
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.awt.Color;
import com.lowagie.text.*;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell;

public class align {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Document document = new Document();
        try {
             PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("align.pdf"));
             document.open();

             Chunk stateCh = new Chunk("New York", 
FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.TIMES, 32, Font.NORMAL,Color.white));
             Chunk districtCh = new Chunk("District 1", 
FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.TIMES, 32, Font.NORMAL, Color.black));

             // begin header table
             PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3);
             table.setWidthPercentage(100);

             PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(stateCh));

             // doesn't seem to work
             cell.setVerticalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE);

             cell.setColspan(2);

             cell.setPhrase(new Phrase(stateCh));
             cell.setPaddingLeft(11);
             cell.setBackgroundColor(Color.blue);
             table.addCell(cell);

             cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(districtCh));

             // doesn't seem to work
             cell.setVerticalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE);

             cell.setColspan(1);
             cell.setBackgroundColor(Color.yellow);
             table.addCell(cell);

             document.add(table);
        }
        catch(DocumentException de) {
            System.err.println(de.getMessage());
        }
        catch(IOException ioe) {
            System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
        }
        document.close();
    }
}


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