iTextSharp - Table in absolute coordinates
absolute, c#, coordinates, itext
Solution
You have several errors in your code.
When you add a table at absolute positions, it is forbidden to use `BeginText()` and `EndText()` as that would cause nested text objects. As explained in ISO-32000-1, you can not next `BT`/`ET` sequences and that's exactly what will happen if your table contains text. As you can not add a table inside a text object, it also doesn't make sense to use `SetFontAndSize()`.
This being said: you need to define a width for the table:
PdfContentByte cb = writer.DirectContent;
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
table.TotalWidth = 400f;
table.AddCell("Test");
table.WriteSelectedRows(0, -1, 200, 50, cb);
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Problem
I am trying to use this tutorial to position table in absolute coordinates using iTextSharp. Here is my code: ``` using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using iTextSharp; using iTextSharp.text; using iTextSharp.text.pdf; using System.IO; namespace iTextSharpQuestion { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { System.IO.FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"C:\Temp\" + "First PDF document.pdf", FileMode.Create); Document document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER, 25, 25, 30, 30); document.SetPageSize(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.LETTER.Rotate()); PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, fs); document.Open(); PdfContentByte cb = writer.DirectContent; BaseFont f_cn = BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.TIMES_ROMAN, BaseFont.CP1252, false); cb.BeginText(); cb.SetFontAndSize(f_cn, 9); PdfPTable ObjTestTable = TestTable(); ObjTestTable.WriteSelectedRows(0, -1, 200, 50, cb); cb.EndText(); // Close the document document.Close(); // Close the writer instance writer.Close(); // Always close open filehandles explicity fs.Close(); } public static PdfPTable TestTable() { PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3); PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Header spanning 3 columns")); cell.Colspan = 3; cell.HorizontalAlignment = 1; //0=Left, 1=Centre, 2=Right table.AddCell(cell); table.AddCell("Col 1 Row 1"); table.AddCell("Col 2 Row 1"); table.AddCell("Col 3 Row 1"); table.AddCell("Col 1 Row 2"); table.AddCell("Col 2 Row 2"); table.AddCell("Col 3 Row 2"); return table; } } } ``` The following line generates error message ``` ObjTestTable.WriteSelectedRows(0, -1, 200, 50, cb); ``` The error message is The table width must be greater than zero. Tutorial suggests to use width zero. What am I doing wrong?