Create A PDF To Show Document In Table Format Using C#

I was trying to create a pdf document which should show document in table format in C#.

So at first I added iTextSharp library to my application.

Then three namespaces:

using iTextSharp.text;

using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

using iTextSharp.text.html;

Then added code:

Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4);

PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc,newFileStream("/hello.pdf",FileMode.Create));

doc.Open();

Then tried to add table to document using Table class(also tried HtmlTable), but it was not working, because when I tried to add that table to document

doc.Add(table1);

 
it was showing error:

“The best overloaded method match for iTextSharp.text.Document.Add(iTextSharp.text.Ielement) has some invalid arguments.”

Because the Table is a class of System.Web.UI.WebControls and HtmlTable is a class of

System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.

Then I used PdfPTable and it worked. Here you can create table without using row element by assigning the number of columns while creating table like:

PdfPTable table1 = newPdfPTable(2);

Here no. of columns is 2.

You can add a child table into a parent table like:

PdfPCell cell2A = newPdfPCell(table2);

Here is the code sample:
I was trying to create a pdf document which should show document in table format in C#.

So at first I added iTextSharp library to my application.

Then three namespaces:

using iTextSharp.text;

using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

using iTextSharp.text.html;

Then added code:

Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4);

PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc,newFileStream("/hello.pdf",FileMode.Create));

doc.Open();

 
Then tried to add table to document using Table class(also tried HtmlTable), but it was not working, because when I tried to add that table to document

doc.Add(table1);

it was showing error:

“The best overloaded method match for iTextSharp.text.Document.Add(iTextSharp.text.Ielement) has some invalid arguments.”

Because the Table is a class of System.Web.UI.WebControls and HtmlTable is a class of System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.

Then I used PdfPTable and it worked. Here you can create table without using row element by assigning the number of columns while creating table like:

PdfPTable table1 = newPdfPTable(2);

Here no. of columns is 2.

You can add a child table into a parent table like:

PdfPCell cell2A = newPdfPCell(table2);

Here is the code sample:

Document doc = newDocument(PageSize.A4);

PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc,newFileStream("/hello.pdf",FileMode.Create));

doc.Open();

PdfPTable table1 = newPdfPTable(2);

table1.WidthPercentage = 90;

 

PdfPCell cell11= newPdfPCell();

cell11.AddElement(newParagraph("Receipt ID : "+receiptNo));

cell11.AddElement(newParagraph("Date : " + date));

cell11.AddElement(newParagraph("Photo Status : " + status));

cell11.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_LEFT;

PdfPCell cell12=newPdfPCell();

cell12.AddElement(newParagraph("Transaction ID : "+tranid));

cell12.AddElement(newParagraph("Expected Date Of Delivery : " + expDate));

cell12.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_RIGHT;

 

table1.AddCell(cell11);

table1.AddCell(cell12);

 

PdfPTable table2 = newPdfPTable(3);

 

//One row added

PdfPCell cell21 = newPdfPCell();

cell21.AddElement(newParagraph("Photo Type"));

PdfPCell cell22 = newPdfPCell();

cell22.AddElement(newParagraph("No. of Copies"));

PdfPCell cell23 = newPdfPCell();

cell23.AddElement(newParagraph("Amount"));

 

table2.AddCell(cell21);

table2.AddCell(cell22);

table2.AddCell(cell23);

 

//New Row Added

PdfPCell cell31 = newPdfPCell();

cell31.AddElement(newParagraph(type));

cell31.FixedHeight = 300.0f;

PdfPCell cell32 = newPdfPCell();

cell32.AddElement(newParagraph(noOfCopy));

cell32.FixedHeight = 300.0f;

PdfPCell cell33 = newPdfPCell();

cell33.AddElement(newParagraph("20.00 * "+noOfCopy+" = "+(20*Convert.ToInt32(noOfCopy))+".00"));

cell33.FixedHeight = 300.0f;

 

table2.AddCell(cell31);

table2.AddCell(cell32);

table2.AddCell(cell33);

 

PdfPCell cell2A = newPdfPCell(table2);

cell2A.Colspan = 2;

table1.AddCell(cell2A);

PdfPCell cell41 = newPdfPCell();

cell41.AddElement(newParagraph("Name : " + custName));

cell41.AddElement(newParagraph("Advance : " + advance));

cell11.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_LEFT;

PdfPCell cell42 = newPdfPCell();

cell42.AddElement(newParagraph("Customer ID : " + custId));

cell42.AddElement(newParagraph("Balance : " + balance));

cell42.VerticalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_RIGHT;

 

table1.AddCell(cell41);

table1.AddCell(cell42);

 

doc.Add(table1);

doc.Close();

Response.Redirect("/hello.pdf");