/** * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following question: * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22094289/itext-precisely-position-an-image-on-top-of-a-pdfptable */ package sandbox.tables; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.ExceptionConverter; import com.itextpdf.text.Image; import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTableEvent; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class AddOverlappingImage { public static final String DEST = "results/tables/add_overlapping_image.pdf"; public class ImageContent implements PdfPTableEvent { protected Image content; public ImageContent(Image content) { this.content = content; } public void tableLayout(PdfPTable table, float[][] widths, float[] heights, int headerRows, int rowStart, PdfContentByte[] canvases) { try { PdfContentByte canvas = canvases[PdfPTable.TEXTCANVAS]; float x = widths[3][1] + 10; float y = heights[3] - 10 - content.getScaledHeight(); content.setAbsolutePosition(x, y); canvas.addImage(content); } catch (DocumentException e) { throw new ExceptionConverter(e); } } } public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new AddOverlappingImage().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(5); table.setTableEvent(new ImageContent(Image.getInstance("resources/images/hero.jpg"))); table.setWidthPercentage(100); PdfPCell cell; for (int r = 'A'; r <= 'Z'; r++) { for (int c = 1; c <= 5; c++) { cell = new PdfPCell(); cell.addElement(new Paragraph(String.valueOf((char) r) + String.valueOf(c))); table.addCell(cell); } } document.add(table); document.close(); } }