PdfPCell aligns correctly, the problem is what is your mid reference: mid
ascent, mid cap height, mid leading, mid something?
The alignment is done by the leading. Try something like this to align it by
the cap (if this is what you need):
table.getDefaultCell().setPaddingTop(bf.getFontDescriptor(BaseFont.CAPHEIGHT
, fontSize) - fontSize + 2);
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua C. Lerner [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 21:03
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [iText-questions] Vertical alignment in PdfPCell
>
> 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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